Revenue Stamps: During the Civil War in America, revenue stamps were required on photographs, which were required to be canceled usually marked or signed over by the photographer. This can help date them. These stamps are collectible as well, with the blue "Playing Card" stamp to be the most desirable. Entered into the Act of Congress in the year by E. Barney, Pinxt. These fillers are genre copies of paintings and engravings, as seen in the example above. Most are less desirable than an actual photograph, although there are rare American rebel and confederate, abolitionist, slavery and satirical political scenes that are quite sought after.
For example, we have seen an allegorical engraved mourning scene of Lincoln raising to heaven with George Washington, soon after his assassination. This would have been collected and proudly placed in the album alongside family members to show Union patriotic and political leanings.
Death was such an integral part of life in the 19th c. Sadly, because of such a high mortality rate in Victorian era children, for many this was the only portrait taken in their shortened lives. This could be true for the elderly as well, before the invention of readily available photography.
CDV post mortems are desirable and collectible in the vintage photography world. For some undefinable reason, when we find them, they are rarely identified with family names.
The exception is the "outdoor" CDV. Outdoor scenes are unusual, with frontier or western scenes very highly desirable. A traveling photographer could carry one camera and "shoot" the west, a new frontier. When found, they are a wonderful look into Victorian America and abroad, with scenes such as landscapes, towns, group scenes, occupational businesses, street scenes, architecture, barn raisings, churches, farmhouses, animals and carriage life. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
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In addition, it is not unusual for cabinet cards to feature decorative back marks advertising the photographer. Some, however, have no markings at all. Write Your Answer. Similar Asks What is the mean of the sample means? What is the mean of the distribution of sample means? What do you mean by the means of transport? If you have one of these, consider scanning the images within and then archivally storing the actual album.
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