Archive for August, 2007
Notched Sides
Notches along the sides of card mounted photographs are mostly a characteristic of Cabinet Cards, though a few CDVs, some of the late square and nearly square formats also have notches. Compared to cards of the same age in general, the notched cards seem to have square corners more frequently, though notched cards with rounded […]
Read More..>>Bilateral Ovoid
I will use Darrah’s term for this type of CDV back — bilateral ovoid, though the term is not very accurate. The figure is bilateral — in fact it is bilateral in two directions, both left-right and upper-lower. But calling it an ovoid is a stretch. Since it doubly bilateral it seems quadrilateral should apply, […]
Read More..>>Monograms
Monograms, those funny logos made up of intertwined letters — have you ever looked closely at them? Most people ignore these clues, they seem too commonplace to bear special attention. To the alert researcher, however, they can provide not only a clue as to who took the photograph, but also when it was taken.
To many […]
Real Photo Postcard Portraits
Real photo postcards were used for portraits as well as scenery. In this report, we will focus just on the portraits, as that seems to have been the most popular use for real photo postcards when they were first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century.
We will further limit this study to non-celebrity […]
Preponderance of Evidence
In this post we are going to digress a bit from our usual technique of examining a single element found in photographs, and describing its frequency and temporal distribution, to discuss briefly our methodology. To fully understand the relevance of our observations, you need to understand how we arrived at the conclusions we draw from […]
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