Figure 1.--This 1884 cabinent card mount looks to be uncolored card stock prnted with brownish ink. The studio was Haynes uin Fargo. This was still a frontier town in the Dakota Territory. States had not yet been organized. The family is that of Salon Lewis who was probably a homesteader. Click on the image to see the back of the card.

We see a number of cabinent cards that look to be uncolored card stock. This was the case for many early CDVs from the 1860s. Cabinent cards, however were commonly done with card stock that hd a color finish. We note the uncolored card stock into the 1880s, but are not yet sure about the 1890s. We do not know how common these uncolored card stocks were. Presumably this would have been less expdnive card stock for studios attempting to keep the cost od their portraits low. The portrait here was tajken in Fargo, Dakota Territory during 1884. You might expect that a photoigrapher there might be more concerned about costs than a studio in a fashionable big city.

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