Archive for February, 2008
The Tasseled Frame
Posted by admin on February 3rd, 2008 filed in 1860s, 05 - Carte-de-Visite
William Culp Darrah, in his 1981 publication Cartes de Visite in Ninteenth Century Photography, describes ornate oval frames around the image, either printed or embossed on the card, and dates them to the 1863-68 range. In fact, the use of oval or sometimes arch-topped rectangles, especially with tintype images, continued through the 1870s and into […]
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