Figure 1.--This Austrian CDV was taken in 1873. The studio was Larl Kroh in Vienna. Notice the elaborate backdrop suggesting a tropical garden. The CDV hs a single narrow rule. The studio name is done in a fancy script while the city in basic ltetters. The CDV has sharp corners.

We see the same photographic formats in Austria as we see in other countries. As a result of our limited Austrian archive, however, we have not yet found examples of the various types, especially the dated examples that are useful in developing chronolohgical trends. We have found very few early Austrian photographic images like Dags in the 1840s and Ambros and Tintypes in the 1850s. The rarity of these early photographs is similar to the pattern in Germany. This changes with the appearance of the albumen process and negative printing. We only begin to see substantial numbers of Austrian photographs with the appearance of the CDVs (1860s). We also see tintypes but not yet early ones. From this point the photographic industry in Austria seems very similar to that of other German states. (Germany was only unified in 1871). We see similar variations in CDVs that we see in America and other European countries. Early CDVs had plain front text and pointted corners. We are not sure yet when cabinet cards appeared, probably the late-1860s. Even so the CDV continued to be popular format. By the 1870s we begin to see decorative backs. Here we see a CDV with a colored mount, looking somewhat lile a caninet card (figure 1). Notice the rounded corners. New cabinet card mounts appear in the 20th century. We also see postcard back prints along with silver nitrate printing.

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