Cabinet Cards

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A cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870.

The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when placed on a cabinet, hence the name.
Due to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s.
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