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Cabinet card portrait, c. 1867
Unknown photographer
Cabinet card portrait, c. 1867
Albumen silver print
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Three times larger than cartes de visite, cabinet cards offered photographers the ability to convey facial details and embed sitters in more elaborate settings, yet most photographers were slow to understand these new opportunities. Initially, photographers treated cabinet cards as if they were simply oversized cartes de visite, and continued to surround their sitters with lots of space and a couple of props.