Figure 1.--This cabinet card was taken in Denver, Colorado in 1912. It is one of the new 20th century mounts, this one done with an oval image. The boy is Theodore Roosevelt Johnson. Note that the image only covers a small part of the mount area. We see a lot of these olive green cards in the 1900s and early 1910s. Notice the unusual studio sticker. Click on the image for more information aboput Theodore.

Cabinent cards in the 1910s were also done in different formats. We see few of the old 19th century format cards. Most were the new 20th century forjmnstscthat appeared primarily in the 1900s. The two most common formats were rectangular and oval images. The cards themselves were usually rectangular. It was the actual photographic image placed on the nounts that varied. Both were fairly common. This is a little difficult to assess because so few of the cards are dated, but we are gradually expanding our archive. There were also squares, but we see more of those in the 1900s. The squares were often small cabinet cards. We also do not see many square cards.

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