Figure 1.--The I.G. Davidson studio in Portland, Oregon offered CDV duplicates at 12 for $2.00. This was about $0.15 each, a small fraction of the cost of the early formats |
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A very important aspect of the new lbumen format was cost. Early photographic formats created high-quality images. This included Daguereotypes, Ambrotypes and tintupes. Dags were expensive, primarily because of the pollished copper plates used. We see cost of bout $5.00 each, a substabtial sum in the nid-19th century. Ambros and tin-types were less expensive, but still relatively expensive. This cjnged rmrkavly with the appearance of the ambro negative process and printing on paper. We note an Oregon studio offering 12 prints for $2.00 or about $0.15 each. That was a huge decline in price. It meant not only that many more images were made, but that a much wider swath of society could afford to have photogrphic portrairts taken in studios and duplcates made. The larger cabinet car prints were only slightly more expensive. And the stereo view cards which we seein numbers could be made inexpensively in quatnity.
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