#cabinet card
A truly heartwarming and intimate portrait of two affectionate men, by studio photographer Tobias Luck, active in Oshkosh, Wisconsin from 1888 to 1920.
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Seriousness and a detached gaze into the middle distance are the order of the day in this smart double portrait from the 1890s.
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Something about the contrast of black suits and pale background gives this a luminous, unreal quality, and I do love the cabinet card style - a shame we don’t get photographs made this way any more.
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Hilda Delfin from the studio of August Jansson in Jönköping, Sweden, circa 1880
W. E. Armstong, Photographer, Nashville, 19th Century
Lieutenant-Colonel John Donald Hamill Stewart of the 11th Hussars
Stewart photographed when Colonel of the 11th Hussars.
Lt-Col. Stewart accompanied General Charles Gordon to Khartoum during the Sudan crises in 1884. Gordon was in charge of the task of evacuating all British and European personnel from the Sudanese capital in the face of the Mahdist uprising.
During the subsequent siege of the Khartoum by the Mahdist forces Col. Stewart lead a group aboard a steamer in fleeing the city. The steamer was to hit rocks and become grounded and all aboard were massacred.
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Cabinet card of an unkown British cavalry officer
Taken by Bourne & Shepherd.
Found at the very intersting blog “The Cabinet Card Gallery”. Check them out at:
https://cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com/category/military/page/3/
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Belle Isle, New Year’s Day, 1895
albumen print cabinet card
(courtesy of Burton Historical Collection at Detroit Public Library)
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Princess Bright Eyes photographed by Chas. Ridenour of Philadelphia, PA. mounted on a cabinet card. In the late 1800s cabinet cards were popular ways to display photographs - basically a photo mounted on hard card stock.
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Frank A Silliman, No. 1
A group photograph of young men from Three Rivers, Michigan. Front left is Frank A. Silliman. This a possibly a photo of the 5 Star Club. The top five students in the Three Rivers high school? Cabinet card photograph by Udell of Three Rivers, Mich.
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Dr. Byron Taylor, a genial, whole-souled man with extensive views on different subjects, and wins the confidence and favor of all with whom he comes in contact, professionally and otherwise.
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ca. 1880-1900s, [cabinet card, photomontage of a man in wearing a bowler hat demonstrating how to properly light a pipe], Place.
viaCapitol Gallery, Cabinet Cards
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ca. 1880-90s, [occupational cabinet card of an ice salesman posed with his wagon and team of horses], E. Cook
viaCapitol Gallery, CDVs & Cabinet Cards Collection
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![ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card of a taxidermist on his porch with his pieces and pet dog]via Capitol Ga](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4158496e638f0b13c6002b0868f44ec7/tumblr_np9x162G6z1qa51rdo1_1280.jpg "ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card of a taxidermist on his porch with his pieces and pet dog]via Capitol Ga")
ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card of a taxidermist on his porch with his pieces and pet dog]
viaCapitol Gallery, CDVs & Cabinet Card Collection
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![ca. 1890-1900s, [cabinet card of a series of bolts of lightning in the sky]via Capitol Gallery, CDVs](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1beeea5ab711dbb411895fc1ccea2048/tumblr_np9wu6Jb5s1qa51rdo1_500.jpg "ca. 1890-1900s, [cabinet card of a series of bolts of lightning in the sky]via Capitol Gallery, CDVs")
ca. 1890-1900s, [cabinet card of a series of bolts of lightning in the sky]
viaCapitol Gallery, CDVs & Cabinet Card Collections
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ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card, Pygmalion and Galatea-esque occupational portrait of a sculptor working on a *suspiciously life-like* bust of a woman], Joseph Gamber
viaCapitol Gallery, CDV & Cabinet Card Collection
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![ca. 1890, [cabinet card, collaged portrait of Daniel Carter Beard with a comically large book], Stah](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7240d777b31138018e2652d625257836/tumblr_np9zpxT5HM1qa51rdo1_400.jpg "ca. 1890, [cabinet card, collaged portrait of Daniel Carter Beard with a comically large book], Stah")
ca. 1890, [cabinet card, collaged portrait of Daniel Carter Beard with a comically large book], Stahmer Art Photography
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