Archive for November, 2007
Single Border Line
If you read these posts regularly, you will remember that in an earlier post on the double line border I stated that:
We are restricting our research to the double line because a single line continued to be used sporadically for as long as CDVs and Cabinet Cards were produced.
Well now I will have to eat […]
Glossy Dark Card Fronts
Chocolate Brown, Dark Green and Black
The cards we describe in this article have dark card faces, typically a dark chocolate brown, or very dark green, or even black. There were cards with black fronts both before and after the period we describe, but they tended to be mat-surfaced, like regular writing paper. The cards we […]
Hair on Men in the 1840s
Hairstyles come in such a bewildering variety, that we are going to look at styles one decade at a time, and have separate posts on men and women. That gives us subjects for 22 posts to cover 1839-1949 (we include 1839 with the 1840s since it was photography’s first year), so we won’t do them […]
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