Boston 99 Cents Store, Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1885

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.