Circus Trapeze Artist, circa 1890
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Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in Wheeling, West Virginia, around 1890, depicts a circus trapeze artist.
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in Wheeling, West Virginia, around 1890, depicts a circus trapeze artist.
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
circa 1890
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
87.18.70.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.438 in
Width: 4.25 in
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