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American Cabinet Cards: Large Format Cards--Mount Styles 19th Century

American large cabinet cards

Figure 1.--Here we have one of the large size cabnet cards. They were a small part of the cabinet card output, but we do see some in each decade that the cabinet cards were popular. This one was 11x14 in. It is undated, but looks like the 1890s. Notice the embossed ruling.

Here we are primarily talking about the 19th century. We see sizes like 8x10 11x9 inch. 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 cards with out mat borders, but they largely had substantial borders. The most notable aspect of these large cards is that they were not done with mounts in the same color and style as the standard (4¼ x 7¼ inch) cabinet card mounts. We are not sure how common this was. We also do not see the many colors that were used for 19th century cabinet cards. The yellowish manila color we see here was common, although we still have relative few examples like the one on the previous page. And of course this is faded with age. We are not enitirely sure what the original color was. We do not see muc framing. Many of these large cards had no studio information and logios. Some do have printed information , but they are not styled like the standard styles. Siome have just the city and states. Others have the studio information as well. We see embossed framing by the 1890s (figure 1).








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