Set of around one hundred photographs (including two photographic albums), mostly business cards (albumen and silver prints, mounted or not on cardboard). Circa 1870-1920. Subjects: groups, family reunions, reproductions of works of art, landscapes (Fort de Lourdes or Pont d'Espagne), portraits (infants, 'Le Petit Roi de Gloire de Carmel de Beaune', children, women, men, religious, military, etc.) and miscellaneous. Identified photographers: Disdéri, Etienne Carjat & Cie, A. Ken, A. Bertrand, Durand Lyon, Établissement Guillet, Apollony Chalon-sur-Saône, Leroux Toulon, Blain Frères Valence, Victoire Lyon, FRANCK Paris, Paul Bourgeois Chalon-sur-Saône and Sereni Mâcon. Sizes approx. 10.7 x 6.4 to 16.5 x 10.7 cm. An empty photographic album is included. Provenance: Home in Burgundy. Expert: Madame Isabelle Cazeils

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