Boston 99 Cents Store, Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1885
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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 Gloucester, Massachusetts's, Corliss and Ryan studio around 1885, shows people outside a 99 cents store.
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 Gloucester, Massachusetts's, Corliss and Ryan studio around 1885, shows people outside a 99 cents store.
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
circa 1885
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
86.18.75.2
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: 4.25 in
Width: 6.5 in
Inscriptions
obverse, handwritten, lower edge: Store of A. Lee, Gloucester. verso: Corliss & Ryan, General View Photographers . . .
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