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3 Antique Photographs Cartes de Visite. American Civil War Era, Anderson & Turner, New Orleans. - 3 Antique Photographs Cartes de Visite American Civil War Era, Anderson & Turner, New Orleans. 1. Anderson & Turner, 61 Camp Street, New Orleans. Portrait of a man, name signed on reverse side in pencil, 1865, tax stamp 2. A.A. Turner, 57 Camp Street, New Orleans. Photo of a child, tax stamp 3.L.I. Prince Photographer, New Orleans. Portrait of a man, Size of photos:10.5 x 6.2 cm. (4.1 x 2.4 inches) Light wear, light stains For example, many images of Washington Artillerists were taken by Samuel Anderson and Samuel T. Blessing, partners in photography, whose 1861 address was 61 Camp Street. By 1864 the two photographers dissolved their partnership and by 1865, after the war, Anderson merged with Union photographer Austin A. Turner of New York. Therefore, by merely viewing the back mark on the reverse of a cdv card, one may determine when the image was sold. Many Washington Artillery cdvs also exhibit a postage stamp affixed to their reverse sides. The stamp represents payment of a photographic tax levied on the sale of images in late 1864. The rate of taxation was determined by the cost of the image. Standard cartes-de-visite, without coloring or touchups that sold for twenty-five cents, required two-cent postage stamp(s) or “revenue” stamps) to be placed on the reverse of the card. The stamp(s) were “cancelled” by the penned initials of the photographer. Therefore, any cdv with a revenue stamp automatically dates it’s sale to the late war, if the subject is Union, or the immediate post war era if Confederate, since loyal Confederates did not start reentering the city until May of 1865. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union[e] (”the North”) and the Confederacy (”the South”), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.