Man in Horse-Drawn Buggy, circa 1880
THF210171 / Man in Horse-Drawn Buggy, circa 1880
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Artifact Overview
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s. This example from around 1880 shows a man in a horse-drawn buggy.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
circa 1880
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
87.18.73.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.063 in
Width: 5.938 in
Inscriptions
verso, handwritten:
Frank Whan
Uncle Charlie,s [sic] brother in law
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