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CDV portrait of three ladies by Ashworth of London, Ontario. c 1860<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Cartes des Visite<\/em> or CDVs came along in the early 1850s with wet-plate technology and stayed popular for about 15 years. The actual photograph, on albumen paper, curled into a tight cylinder making a stiff backing necessary. Cards of 2.5 x 4 inches were usually used with the taker’s advertisement on the back. CDVs became popular to take portraits of celebrities. As a result, multi-copy cameras were invented making the process more efficient.<\/p>\n

Shown here with enhanced sharpness and contrast is a typical CDV portrait of not one but three young ladies taken by London, Ontario photographer, Ashworth, in his studio near the London post office.<\/p>\n

Over a decade after the CDV became popular, the tiny card had run its course and saturation set in. Portraits were revived by studios offering a much larger Cabinet card<\/a> of about 4.25 x 6.5 inches in size with an albumen or other kind of print glued to this firm backing.<\/p>\n

I found detailed information on CDVs, Cabinet cards and other 18th century photographs in the 1976 book, “Collector’s Guide to Nineteenth Century Photographs<\/a>” by William Welling. My copy is the letter size soft cover version. Many other products emulated this concept of increasing size to improve the device from cameras, to smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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