Archive for January, 2008
Photos With Square Mounts
Somehow, about the year 1890, photographers got the strange idea that images might look good mounted on square card-mounts. Card mounts came in various sizes, but they had always been rectangular. Esthetically it was a lousy idea, but for a while in the 1890s and early 1900s there was a fad for square card mounts.
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Read More..>>Dating Stereoviews
Posted by admin on January 5th, 2008 filed in 07 - Stereocard
The principal behind stereographic images was understood before the invention of photography, though they were a scientific curiosity, and not, so far as I know, sold commercially. With the invention of the daguerreotype, it didn’t take long for photographers to begin producing stereo-daguerreotypes, but they were expensive and never produced in great numbers. Most of […]
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