*** photography print type : cabinet card country trends America United states new mount styles








New American Cabinet Cards: Mount Styles (1900-20)

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Figure 1.--This portrait shows Indianapolis Kindergarten No. 4. The new style mount has a portrait taken in October 1901. This grey green color was a popular mount color im the 190s. And we see mounts bith smaller and larger than the classic mounts. This one was much larger. The photo measure 6 x 8" on 8 x 10" card mount.

We see all kinds of changes in cabinet cards at the turn-of-the 20th century. We see new sizes ans shapes. This was not unknow with the kassic mounts, but was rather rate. After the turn-of-tge century we see large numbers of cards done in new shapes and sizes. We see different colors being used for the new style mounts. We don't see the colors like blue, black, burgundy, and white as we see in the 19th century. White and ivory cabinets cards were very common in the 1890s. But at the turn-of-the 20th century we see destinctive new colors. They seem duller colors and fewer options. Cream. browm, and greyish shades of olive seem particularly common after the turn of the 20th century. Brown was also popular. The question of mountstyles for the new generation of a cabinet cards is a very complicated ond, principally because there were so many different styles. We have no idea why the mouints were so uniform before the turnn of the century and son varied afterwards. One possibility was the appearance of snapshots and postcard-backed photographs. As a result of these nbew types, the standardized slot albums for CDVs and cabinet cards were no longer so popular. The change did not occur precisely on Janyary 1, 1900, but the change was remarably sudden and ocurred around the tirn-of-the century. We see some of the new styles in the late-1890s and some old styles in the early-1900s, but for the most part the transition was remarkably sudden at the turn-of-the century. Just why this change occured so suddenly and was so remarably wide sporead we do not know.

Mount Sizes and Shapes

Cabinet card mount sizes become much more varied at the turn-of-the 20th century. This was a sharp departure from the various standardized cabinet card sizes prevalent during the 19th century. Ww have no idea why there suddenly was such a huge change and just at the turn-of-the century. We so not know if this came from the phogogrphic studios or the companies producing the card stock. One possibility is the Kodak Broiwie and amateyrr family snapshots. Perhaps this was an effort to compete. We just do not know. We see some of these new sized in the late-19th century, but the vast majority date to the early-20th century. We see a multiplicity of cabinet card size and new shapes (1900s-10s). We see both smaller and larger cards. We note some square cards, usually smller sizes than the 19th century cards. We also see a number of more narrow cards. We do no kmow why, but narrow sizes suddenly became fashionsble. Some were very narrows with only small photographs, but smaller even than CDVs. Others were only slightly more narrow. We also see larger cards in the same shape as the old style cards. There were colors stringly assiciated with these new siuzes and shapes. We see small cream cards with patterned paper. Grey and olive green cars were also common with these new suzes. We also see larger cards with large prints.

Mount Colors

We see different colors being used for the new style mounts. We don't see the colors like blue, black, burgundy, and white as we see in the 19th century. White and ivory cabinets cards were very common in the 1890s. But at the turn of the 20th century we see destinctive new colors. They seem duller colors and fewer options. Cream. browm, and greyish shades of olive seem particularly common after the turn of the 20th century. And a color not seen before the turn-of-the century. Brown was also popular. This was a color we do see in 19th century, but dark brown. The brown we see after the vturn of the 20th century is a nlighter shade of brown. The brownish mount shades we see on the previous page in 1912 are unlike any colors we see in the 19th century.

Mount Styles

The question of mountstyles for the new generation of a cabinet cards is a very complicated ond, principally because there were so many different styles. We have no idea why the mouints were so uniform before the turnn of the century and son varied afterwards. One possibility was the appearance of snapshots and postcard-backed photographs. As a result of these nbew types, the standardized slot albums for CDVs and cabinet cards were no longer so popular. Families turned to scrapbooks where they could put in all the various formats. We will try here to list the varioys styles of new cabinet cartds we have noted in the new 20th century. Vertical orientations tend to dominate. Here we have one that looks rather the paper frames that would become popular. The mount on the previous page is framed in color coordinated thick frame lines. This was a popular style. The studio is no longer indicated in bold lettering. In fact on some cards it is not indicated at all. Some cards were done without color frame lines, but framing was done by pressing a frame into the paper card. This was another popular style. We also see square cards. These tended to be smaller than the vertical orientation cards.








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