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A true black-and-white image on a cabinet card is likely to have been produced in the 1890s or after 1900. The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1920s, even as late as 1924. Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de ...
A. & G. Taylor was a British photographic business, and manufacturer of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, and later picture postcards. In 1866, the photographers Andrew Taylor (1832–1909) [1] and George Taylor opened their first studio in London's Cannon Street. They expanded to have 30 outlets in major British cities and some in the US.
The American Bank Note Company acquired Continental in 1879 and took over the contract, printing similar designs on softer papers and with some color changes. Major redesigning, however, came only in 1890, when the American Bank Note Company issued a new series in which stamp-size was reduced by about 10% (the so-called "Small Bank Notes").
19th. 20th. 21st. 22nd. 23rd. 24th. This category is for card games that were first recorded during the 19th century, whether or not they are still played.
The carte de visite was usually an albumen print from a collodion negative on thin paper glued onto a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54 mm (2.125 in) × 89 mm (3.5 in) (approximately the size of a business card ), mounted on a card sized 64 mm (2.5 in) × 100 mm (4 in). The reverse was generally printed with the logo of ...
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Alice De Wolf Kellogg (1862–1900), painter. Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1862–1944), luminescent and tonalist landscapes. Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945), landscape, figure, and portrait. Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947), painter. Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), painter. Robert Reid (1862–1929), painter and muralist.
The discs were intended for sale at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They seem to have sold very poorly, and surviving discs are quite rare. The discs were printed in black-and-white, with twelve different discs also produced as chromolithographed versions. Of the coloured versions, only four different ones are known to still ...