Archive for November, 2007

Single Border Line

Posted by admin on November 23rd, 2007 filed in 1880s, 1890s, 1870s, 1860s, 06 - Cabinet Card, 05 - Carte-de-Visite

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 […]

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Glossy Dark Card Fronts

Posted by admin on November 9th, 2007 filed in 1890s, 1880s, 06 - Cabinet Card, 05 - Carte-de-Visite

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 […]

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Hair on Men in the 1840s

Posted by admin on November 2nd, 2007 filed in 1840s, 1839 - and earlier, 01 - Daguerreotype

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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