Archive for the '05 - Carte-de-Visite' Category
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 […]
Studying Studio
Lets look at the words on the back of CDVs with photographer’s imprints. You probably never paid much attention to the various terms they used to describe their business, they mostly seem very common terms. But when photography was young, there was not yet a consensus on what to call the workers or the workplace.
Today […]
The Golden Line
In this report we are going to look at the occurrence and frequency of a broad gilt line on the front of card-mounted photographs, particularly CDVs, but occasionally also on cabinet cards.
The use of ‘gilt’ or gold-coloring on cards was not uncommon, and you should not confuse some of the other uses, particularly gilt-edges, with […]