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Visiting card facts for kids

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A visiting card is a small paper card with a person's name on it. They were used to let someone know that another person had come to their home for a visit. Some visiting cards had just a name on them. Some also had images.

Visiting cards are not used as much as they used to be. Business cards are now used the way visiting cards used to be used.

  • Examples of visiting cards
  • Goethe visiting card

    A plain visiting card with only a name (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

  • A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery Card63

    A visiting card showing and address and the day that visitors are welcome to visit the card holder

  • VisitingCardJohannVanBeethoven

    The visiting card of Johann van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Visiting Card of Kaiser Wilhelm

    Visiting card of Wilhelm II of Germany

  • OHM - Bischof Leopold von Firmian 2

    Visiting card of Leopold Ernst von Firmian, cardinal bishop of Passau

Before the industrialization visiting cards were hand made. Since the end of the 19th century production has become more and more automated.

Art of Bookbinding p239 Oscar Friedheim
A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing 100,000 visiting cards a day

Images for kids

  • Carte de visite Huart

    Visiting card of Louis Adrien Huart, caricaturist for Le Charivari

  • Antonin Langweil navstivenka

    Visiting card of Antonín Langweil

  • BrownCallingCardCaseBedfordMuseum

    Visiting card case

  • Victorian silver visiting card holder

    Victorian silver visiting card case

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Tarjeta de visita para niños

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