Composite Photograph of 100 Portraits of Actresses, c. 1860.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: likely 1860s. Carte de visite measuring 2 ¼ by 3 ½ inches on heavy cardstock. Though Dadaists are frequently credited with the invention of photomontage, techniques involving combining multiple photographs into a single composite image have been around since at least the mid-Victorian era.[1] These could be made.....

