We love these photo studio illustrations with the studio name appearing multiple times (eight in this case, including the name under the building). The block on the sidewalk is called a carriage step, carriage stone or mounting block, if you…Read More…
Category: Cabinet Cards
A Nice Gentleman, Chicago 1891
Cabinet Card photo. 1891. Photo studio: Hartley, 309 W. Madison St., Chicago, Illinois. Price: $10.00 Size: 4 and 1/4 x 6 and 1/2″ Sometimes we get lucky with names, sometimes not: Here’s a beautiful Cabinet Card portrait of a kind-looking…Read More…
Colby & Wilson Cabinet Card, Meredith, NH
Cabinet Card photo of a little boy, (love the expression) about three years old, posed standing with hands in pockets, dressed in a long wool-looking coat with contrasting darker-colored cuffs and collar, the collar buttoned snug at the neck, and…Read More…
Myrtle Olson, San Francisco, Circa 1897
Here’s a Cabinet Card of adorable Myrtle Olson, about seven or eight years old, posed for the photo wearing a plaid dress with long sleeves which are puffed from elbow to shoulder, a white collar and button-top boots. Myrtle appears…Read More…
Frederick Russell Pope
Cabinet Card, circa 1896. Photographer: Duryea, Brooklyn, New York. Price: $20.00 Cabinet Card showing a beautiful photo of young Frederick Russell Pope, estimated age about four years old, taken by the Duryea photography studio, Brooklyn, New York. Russell was born…Read More…
Family Portrait By J. R. Johnson
Cabinet Card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Possible photographer: J. R. Johnson. Possible location California. Price: $6.00 The fourth of four Cabinet Cards found in the small Soquel, CA antique and vintage shop, and it’s possible they may have come from…Read More…
Modesto Siblings By Hanson
Cabinet Card, circa 1892 – 1898. Photographer: Frank Henry Hanson. Price: $15.00 This Cabinet Card was likely done by Frank H. Hanson who is mentioned in the same book about Modesto that was just referenced two posts ago (re fellow…Read More…
Little Cutie
Cabinet Card, circa 1880 – 1900. Price: $8.00 Second of four Cabinet Cards that were found together, and that may or may not be related. No identifying information on this one for the adorable little girl or the photographer. But…Read More…
Modesto, California Gentleman
This Cabinet Card and the next three were found together, at a small antique and vintage store in Soquel, California. It’s possible but unknown for sure whether the people in these four photos are related. This one is a sepia-toned…Read More…