Cabinet cards

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Linda's Crafty Inspirations: Free Graphics - Cabinet Card Collage Series

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Have you ever seen Cabinet Cards? These awesome cards were popular in the mid to late 1800’s, and were used by photographers to showcase portraits they did. They usually have the photographer’s name and address or location and are mounted on a thick card stock […]

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Sometimes the back of an old photo is more artistic and beautiful than the front!

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photographer: Kozmata Ferenc (1846 - 1902) Mrs. Paulay , b. Berta Adorján (1864-1941) was an actress

Today we have a nice collection of 35 Free Romantic Images from The Graphics Fairy's archives. In this post, we have 35 links to romantic images

Learn how to identify the popular cabinet card as well as how to use clues to narrow down the time period when the photo was printed.

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L.A. Dippel Old St. Louis photographic studio cards. These are the backs —the other side has the portrait. These basically served as business cards, as well as family heirlooms called cabinet cards. Most are probably circa late 19th century.

I'm on a bit of a family photos binge, ever since I took ours a few weeks ago. I always put them on our Christmas cards each year, but I rarely do anything else with them - not even print and frame them. After all the agony I went through getting this year's photos, I was on a quest to actually do something with our photos, so I could display them in our home, and I came up with a