Figure 1.--Here we see a 8x10 inch large format cabinet card. It shows an extended Iowa faamily. The card was not dated, but almost certainly was taken about 1895. Notice the studio informtion at the bottom as was common for 19th century cabinet cards. Botice the light-brown color and wide margins. The photographer was Young in Humeston, Iowa.

Here we are primarily talking about the 19th century. We see sizes like 8x10 11x9. The 8x10 seems to be the most common size. What we are not real sure about yet is the studio information that was usually provided at the bottom of a cabinet cards. We don't see logos as commonly which were fairly standard in 19th century cards, but we do see some of these large cards with the studio and city information. Here we do not have enough examples to form any overall assessment.We see some of these large cardswith out mat borders. We are not sure hiw common this ws. We also do not see the many colors that were used for 19th century cabinet cards. The color we see here wws common, although we still have relative few examples (figure 1). We see larger format cabinet cards after the turn of the 20th century, but this was part of major changes with many changes as part of new style mounts. And many of these cards hve no studio infirmation. We And we no longer see and standard size as was the case in the 19th century. We also see new colors.

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