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Card Photographs: A Guide to Their History and Value
Lou W. McCulloch
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Description for Card Photographs: A Guide to Their History and Value
Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to card photographs, spanning nearly a century. Over 300 illustrations, accompanied by value guides and historical background on the card types. Included are family portraits, famous personalities, the frontier West, Civil War scenes, theatrical cards, oddities, foreign landscapes, and studio novelties. Num Pages: 256 pages, 392 photos. BIC Classification: AJC; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 289 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1212.
This comprehensive work will be appreciated by amateur and professional collectors as a long awaited composite guide to card photographs spanning nearly a century of examples dating from salt prints to picture postcards. The over three hundred illustrations are accompanied not only with value and dating guidelines, but also historical background on the development of the various card types. Included are family portraits, famous personalities, the frontier West, Civil War scenes, theatrical cards, oddities, foreign landscapes, and studio novelties. In fact, the profusely illustrated text is a documentary of a bygone era.
This comprehensive work will be appreciated by amateur and professional collectors as a long awaited composite guide to card photographs spanning nearly a century of examples dating from salt prints to picture postcards. The over three hundred illustrations are accompanied not only with value and dating guidelines, but also historical background on the development of the various card types. Included are family portraits, famous personalities, the frontier West, Civil War scenes, theatrical cards, oddities, foreign landscapes, and studio novelties. In fact, the profusely illustrated text is a documentary of a bygone era.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Atglen, PA, United States
ISBN
9780916838560
SKU
V9780916838560
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