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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..>>Snapshot Notes Part 1
Posted by admin on October 12th, 2007 filed in 1910-19, 1900-09, 1890s, 10 - Paper Prints, 08 - Other Card-Mounted
1888-1919
The snapshot was born with the hand-held camera, the most popular being the Kodak, introduced in 1888. In this article we are going to explore the first 32 years of snapshots, and look at how their appearance gives clues to their age. In subsequent articles we will look at some of the later developments in […]