Horse-Drawn Hearse and Driver, 1897
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Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s. This example, made in 1897 by Portland, Michigan, photographer George J. Van Horn, shows a horse-drawn hearse and rider.
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s. This example, made in 1897 by Portland, Michigan, photographer George J. Van Horn, shows a horse-drawn hearse and rider.
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
1897
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
93.51.18
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: 4.25 in
Width: 6.5 in
Inscriptions
obverse, printed: Portland, Mich. 1897 obverse, handwritten: Geo J Van Horne [sic]
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