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- Portrait of Peter Cooper, circa 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 of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in Boston, Massachusetts, around 1880, depicts American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist Peter Cooper.
- circa 1880
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Portrait of Peter Cooper, circa 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 of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in Boston, Massachusetts, around 1880, depicts American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist Peter Cooper.