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- Circus Trapeze Artist, circa 1890 - 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 example, made in Wheeling, West Virginia, around 1890, depicts a circus trapeze artist.
- circa 1890
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Circus Trapeze Artist, circa 1890
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 example, made in Wheeling, West Virginia, around 1890, depicts a circus trapeze artist.