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2. Currier and Ives - Wikipedia

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   Currier and Ives was a New York City -based printmaking business operating from 1835 to 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier, the company designed and sold inexpensive hand-painted lithographic works based on news events, views of popular culture and Americana. Advertising itself as "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints," [1] the ...

3. Photo print sizes - Wikipedia

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   The alternative Super series, denoted SnR, nR Plus or nR+, has an aspect ratio of 3∶2 (or as close as possible) and thus provides a better fit for standard 135 film (35 mm) at sizes of 8 inches or above. 5R is twice the size of a 2R print, 6R twice the size of a 4R print and S8R twice the size of 6R. 4D/6D is a newer size for most consumer ...

4. Cabinet card - Wikipedia

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   As snapshot and personal photography became commonplace among the public, the popularity of the cabinet card and cabinet card specific albums waned. Unmounted paper prints and the scrapbook albums started replacing them. A variety of other large card styles of various names and dimensions came about for professional portraits in the 1880s and ...

5. Paper size - Wikipedia

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   The international paper size standard is ISO 216. It is based on the German DIN 476 standard for paper sizes. Each ISO paper size is one half of the area of the next larger size in the same series. ISO paper sizes are all based on a single aspect ratio of the square root of 2, or approximately 1:1.41421. There are different series, as well as ...

6. Woodblock printing in Japan - Wikipedia

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   Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e [1] artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603 ...

7. Albumen print - Wikipedia

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   Albumen print. The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, is a method of producing a photographic print using egg whites. Published in January 1847 [1] by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, it was the first commercial process of producing a photo on a paper base from a negative, [2] previous methods - such as the daguerreotype and the ...