Memorial Portrait of a Young Woman, circa 1890

Professional photographers produced the first 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, often to commemorate loved ones who had passed away. This memorial portrait was made in O.L. Thornbladh's Ironwood, Michigan, studio around 1890.