Figure 1.--Here we see a fold up paper frame portarit. It is undated, but looks like the 1920s to us. It folds up into an envelope-like closure. There were other fold up arrangements.

We see studio portrait tastes in America changing in the 1920s. The prosperity of the 1920s mean that many parenys had studio portraits taken. There were several different options. The popularity of post-card back portraits and snap shots began to decline, especialy with tudio portraits. We still see some cabinet cards, not as many as before and they were becoming increasingly decorative. We no longer see snapshots being done as cabinent cards, some we see in the 1900s decade when amantuer photographers might take their snaps to studios. Studio portraits in the 1920s were often done with paper frames. They were different styles of the studio paper frames. We see frames with jagged edges. Brown was a popular color forgthese jagged edge paper frames. We also notice frames that are self standing and others that fold up into envelope style enclosures. We are not sure why anyone woukd want to fold up a pprtrait. It seems to be an reversion to 19th century cased portraits, but in that case it was to protect the fragil image. We even see a few tin-types being taken, primarily at carnivals. Studio portraits no longer dominated photography as so many amateur snapshots were being taken.

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