by Editor | Nov 3, 2026 | Prints and Early Photography
Real photo postcards are where photography stopped being something you went to a studio for. Between about 1903 and the 1930s, ordinary people and small-town photographers turned out millions of them: main streets, train depots, county fairs, floods, family farms, and...
by Editor | Nov 3, 2026 | Prints and Early Photography
Cabinet cards are the bigger, bolder successor to the carte de visite. They’re the stiff portraits you find tucked in Victorian albums, propped in old frames, and stacked in shoeboxes at estate sales, usually showing a family, a couple, or a stern-faced...
by Editor | Nov 2, 2026 | Prints and Early Photography
If you’ve ever opened an old family album and found rows of small portraits mounted on stiff cards, you’ve probably met the carte de visite. These little photographs were made by the millions in the 1860s and 1870s, and they still turn up everywhere:...
