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A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century. A silhouette (English: / ˌ s ɪ l u ˈ ɛ t /, [1] French:) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.
A Magic Moving Pictures card by G. Felsenthal & Co. Magic moving pictures were composed of images containing black vertical and regularly interlaced stripes, alternating between two or three phases of a depicted motion or between distinctly different pictures. A little transparent sheet with regular vertical black stripes was glued beneath a ...
The sitter's face was recorded as a black silhouette. In 1785, Miers writes on the back of one of his images promoting the process: “preserves the most exact Symmetry and animated expression of the Features, much Superior to any other Method. Time of sitting one minute. N.B.
Williams made over 8,000 silhouettes during his first year working at Peale's museum. [3] He earned between 6 and 8 cents for every silhouette he cut. [4] With the money Williams earned making silhouettes, he bought a house and married. [1] By 1823, silhouette-cutting as a profession was in decline, and Williams had to sell his house. [1]
Display in Deadwood, South Dakota with the dead man's hand (here given as A♠ A♣ 8♠ 8♣ 9♦). What is currently considered the dead man's hand card combination received its notoriety from a legend that it was the five-card stud or five-card draw hand, held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876, in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, Deadwood ...
A typical 1940s–early 1950s black-and-white real photo postcard. A real photo postcard (RPPC) is a continuous-tone photographic image printed on postcard stock. The term recognizes a distinction between the real photo process and the lithographic or offset printing processes employed in the manufacture of most postcard images.
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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 ...