Figure 1.--Here you can see how a CDV was inserted into the slots of the album pages. These little American girls, Elenore and Annie, were in a 1860s album. |
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The CDV and cabinent card albums werecdone with stiff heavy card pages to hold CDvs and cabinent cards. Tin-types could a;so be inserted. The thickness of the pages limited the number of pages in each album. Many had some decoration or highlighting around each image slot. The portraits were inserted into these slots. It was a way olf securing the portraits without danaging them. The were thus held securely. The albums varied in size. They could also be easily taken out and replaced if so desired. Some albums had small one image pages while others had slots for two or four images per page. A good example of ta two-image page is the Schlesinger album from the 1860s. We also note four image page books.
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