Figure 1.--This large format cabinet card shows a 3rd grade class at the Davis Street School in Atalana Georgia. The portrait was taken in Novnmber 1896. we can see the Fauntleroy styling that many of the boys wear. As with most of these lrge firmat cards there is no studio information. And they were motly done in in tan/brown shades.

We have found quite a few of these large format cabinet cards from the 1890s. The large size cabinet card portrait of a primary school class on the previous page is a good example. It was taken in 1891. We know that because of the slate the girls are holding. We know nothing else about the oortrait except what can be decuded fron the image. It was a primary school and the brick building shows that it was a school in a town. We notice various settings for these large-sized cards such as the family home with the family, but school photographs were becoing the most common. It obviusly was not taken in a studio. Notice the realtively small borders. And the brown/tan colored mount usually withoutnstudio information that we usually see with these mounts. that we commonly see with these large cabinet cards. The card was 8 x 10 inches, one of the more popular large sizes. We begin to see more of these large outdoor images in the 1890s, but they were still relatively rare. The increasing popularity of school photography helpd expand the demand. The large sizes were needed, because indivifual children rather get lost in a class of any size. Thus parents wanted alarger size. It is only with the Kodak Brownie and similar systems that photography significantly expands outside the studio (1900).

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