Figure 1.-- This cabinet card with a white mount was taken in 1895. Cards with mounts in these white shades were very common in the 1890s and this is a good example.

The first cabinet card appeared in America during 1866. We are not yet sure about the color trends of these 1860s card mounts. Some seem to be done like CDVs. We note dark colors were popular in the 1870s and 80s. Maroon/brown shades seem particularly popular in early cabinet cards (1870s-80s). We can not yet identify color trends between the 70s and 80s, but may be able to find some useful indicator as our archive expands. The cabinet card here is a good example (figure 1). There were many other dark colors of varying popularity such as dark blue. We also see black and green mounts. We also notice whitish shades, but the colored mounts seem the most popular. We do not notice light colors other than white shades. The light mounts were virtually all various whitish shades such as ivory. We do not see light colors. Whitish and off-white shades dominated later (1890s). The 1896 cabinet card at the beginning of this section is a kind of ivory shade and a good example.

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