Edwin Booth, 1885
THF210137 / Edwin Booth, 1885
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Artifact Overview
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 1885 example from Napoleon Sarony's New York City studio depicts Edwin Booth, a famous Shakespearean actor.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
1885
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
34.603.1
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
Inscriptions
front, printed:
Sarony 57 Union Sqr., N.Y.
front, handwritten:
EDWIN BOOTH (Handwritten on front, below image)
verso, handwritten:
TO MARTIN DRAKE ESQ. EDWIN BOOTH FEB. '85 (1885) [Handwritten in ink on verso]
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