Figure 1.--This classic cabinet card mountb shows Louis Mortimer and his sister Sara Mignoin. Caninet card mounts changed at the turn of the 20th century. Here is one of the classic style cards taken aftr the turn of the centuty in 1908. Notcice the destiunctive studio logo. Thevback was broen one of the popular colors for cabinet crd mounts and pprr frarmes aftr the turn of the century.

These classic cabinet cards appeared (1866). We are not sure who came up with the idea or in what cojuntry, but they very rapidly became the dominnt type of studio commerical product, rapidly replacing the CDV. Many of the first cabinet card monts looked like large CDV mounts, but they soon adoped a standard look. This would persist for over three dedacdes. Americans loved the larger images. This continued until the turn-of-the 20th century when the Kosak Brownie created made the family abpshot easily accessable. Studios came up with new mount styles to stimulate consumer interes. These rapidly replaced the classic styles. As a result, we see relatively few classic style mounts after the turn-of-the century. But there were somed, they did not immediiately disappear. We still see some in the 1900s decade. The style of the studio logos at the bottom changed. Someof the bew studio logis may have appeared in thevery late 1890s befire the turn-of-the century, most appeared atter in the 1900s decade. The backs were also destinctive, often using the new colors popular after the turn of the century.

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