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- Girl and Boy Posed with Basket and Rocking Horse, 1880 - 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--often to commemorate friends or family. A young boy and girl posed for this portrait in R. Goebel's Saint Charles, Missouri, studio in 1880.
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Girl and Boy Posed with Basket and Rocking Horse, 1880
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--often to commemorate friends or family. A young boy and girl posed for this portrait in R. Goebel's Saint Charles, Missouri, studio in 1880.