Friday, October 22, 2010
Cabinet Card
Cabinet card made in Binghamton NY. A cabinet card consists of a thin photograph mounted on a card measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches. They replaced the smaller carte-de-visites in the 1870s. They reached peak popularity in the 1880s. In the 1890s they were replaced by a.o. Kodak snapshots.
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cabinet card,
miscellaneous old portrait
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