Figure 1.--Here we see a well-worn 1899 cabinet cad in a protective leather sleevce. We are not sure how common these sleeves were. This is the first one we have found. |
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We notice many studios providing sleeves for finished portraits. This was primarily inexpensive paper sleeves to protect for CDVs. We believe thiswas very common in America. We do not know about other countries. We believe this was fairly common in the 1860s and 70s. We also notice paper sleeves for tin-yypes, but are unsure how common they were. We are not cure about cabinet cards. We have not yet noted paper sleeves for cabinet cards, but that dos not mean they did not exit. We have noted leather sleeves, but do not believe that they wer very common. Over time, most of the sleeves have been lost. Thus there general prevalence in the photographuc record is not a good indicator of actual prevalence.
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