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Can someone explain what "exchange of miniatures" means in this context?

• Avawelles 10y ago
  Miniatures were small painted portraits. It would be like exchanging photographs today.
  • splitbrain 10y ago
    Ah that makes sense! Thank you.
    • firebones 10y ago
      19th century Snapchat, then? (All the more reason to read old newspapers: to see what social constructs are timeless (and therefore possibly more fundamentally sound).