Figure 1.--This is one of the new style cabinet card mounts with only minor chnges. The format is very similr to 19th century cards with the image coverung most of the mount. Look at the photographic mount centered at the bottom. This was not common in the 19th century. And while the studio is identified as Burnham, the city is not added. And notice the greenish grey color. The boy here is Lawrence Ray Gard and he was photographed in 1904.

Many of the new style 20th-century cabinet cards were strikingly different. Some had more modest changes. We note some cards that look largely like the old style cards with limited changes. These continued to have the photographic image covering most of the card without a franme and only the bottom of the mount not covered. We note some of the most important modest changes. First we note simpler logos at the bottom. The studio nmemight be moved to the center. Sometimes the city was not added. This becomes increasingly common as the decade progresses. Second the color changed. We note cards done with greyish shades. A greenish grey ws very coimmon. These same colors were also seen in the new-style cabint cards with more substantial changes. We see these card with modest changes mostly in the 1900s.

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