We have seen some green cards. They were all dark green. There were different green shades. Some were so dark
as they approched black. Other were a dark, but more clearly a green shade. We are not yet sure of the chronology. Babinet cards first appeared in 1866 and we do not know much about 1860s cards. We think they were mostly done in the 1870s and 1880s, at keast the early and mid-80s. This is confirmed by examples that we have archived so far, although we do not have large numbers of examples and this can not yet be precise about the chronological trends. . The example here of Ester Jackman from Washington, D.C. was done with gold print in 1881 (figure 1). We note a portrait of Walter Hoskin from Ohio done with a mount done in a lighter green shade, although still dark in 1890. We are not yet sure about the 70s, but so not see very many of the dark green cards after the very early-90s. Light colored cards were very popular in the 1890s. We think all these dark colored cards (blue, brown, burgandy/maroon, and green) all had about the same chronolgical popularity, although this still has to be confirmed. The lettering was often done with gold or a gold looking print. Some were done with fancy backs. We do not yet know how this compares to European trends. We mote some similarity, but we are not sure to how closly correlated the mounts were.
We have seen some green cards. They were all dark green. There were different green shades. Most were so dark
as they approched black. Other were a dark, but more clearly a green shade. These appared more toward the turn-of-the 20th century, but these were much less common. We note greenish grey shades in the eaely-20th century..
We are not yet sure of the chronology. Cabinet cards first appeared in 1866 and we do not know much about 1860s cards. We think they were mostly done in the 1870s and 1880s, at keast the early and mid-80s. This is confirmed by examples that we have archived so far, although we do not have large numbers of examples and this can not yet be precise about the chronological trends. We note Newton Field Waters in 1873 with a dark green mount. The example here of Ester Jackman from Washington, D.C. was done with gold print in 1881 (figure 1). We note a portrait of Walter Hoskin from Ohio done with a mount done in a lighter green shade, although still dark in 1890. We are not yet sure about the 70s, but so not see very many of the dark green cards after the very early-90s. Light colored cards were very popular in the 1890s, but we see very few green mounts cards and no light green mounts.
We think all these dark colored cards (blue, brown, burgandy/maroon, and green) all had about the same chronolgical popularity, although this still has to be confirmed. The lettering was often done with gold or a gold looking print. Some were done with fancy backs.
We do not yet know how this compares to European trends. We mote some similarity, but we are not sure to how closly correlated the mounts were.
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