Figure 1.--This large cabinet card portrait shows an 8th grade gradation class with the parish priest. They are holding their diplomas and have a stack of them in front. The class is from "St.Stanistawa School in South Bend, Indiana". It appears to be a Polish parish. The photo alone measures 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. and its mounted onto a cardboard matte (with leaf embossing around photo) making the entire item 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. The mount has three sets of ruling. The studio information is done in the sme color as the ruling. The photographer is E. Grzywienski, South Bend, Ind." This is the klsargest cabinet card we have found.

Suddenly at the turn of the 20th century, however, we see a great deal of vatrition, quite a variety of different sizes. We have no idea why this occurred so suddely and rge changes were so radical. We suddenly see both smaller and larger cards in the 20th century. We note some square cards, usually smaller sizes than the 19th century cards. We note some about 2 in square. There were several cards smaller than CDVs. And we note some small, narrow cards. We also see larger cards in the same general shape as the old style cards. Some were only slightly larger. Two popular sizes Boudoir cabinet card -- about 8.5 x 5.25 inches (21x13 cm) and Imperial Cabinet Carda -- about 9.75 x 6.75 inches (25x17 cm). The largest size we habve noted was 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in wjich was a school portrait. There may have been some larger ones, but we do not believe that they were very common anbd we have not found them. There were not only there different size mounts, but the sizes of the photographic print pasted on the card were even varied, but here we are ionly talking about the mount sizes. We hope to go into the sizes in great detail and will do so as we expand our investigation of this topic.

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