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Card photographs


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Card photograph types
2Introduction to card stock
3Pasting photographs to card stock
4Introduction to backmarks
Dating
5Dating cabinet cards
NPA - National Photographic Association
6NPA - National Photographic Association: Backmarks
Themes
7Card photographs of actors, performers and entertainers
8Cartes de visite: Objects
9Cabinet cards: Objects
Repurposing card photographs
10Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages
11The Whimsical Carte de Visite World of the Carte Horse Conspiracy and Archived Associates...
12Contemporary artworks using card photographs

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