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Mar 2, 2018 · In the 19th century, the sudden ability to print images on paper—a material that’s both shareable and disposable—eventually gained widespread and long-lasting use.
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- Cabinet Cards
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In 1854 Blanquart-Evrard’s countryman André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patented thecarte-de-visite, a photo card inspired by the popularity of leaving a calling card with one’s name on it during a social visit. A carte-de-visite consisted of an albumen photograph of the caller mounted on a thin card uniformly sized to approximately 2.5 x 4 inches. The ...
By 1866 a new and larger photo format, thecabinet card, had achieved popularity. The cabinet name possibly refers to cabinets that held collectible items or the small cabinet canvases made by Dutch and Flemish painters. At 4.5 x 6.5 inches the cabinet card format allowed mounting of a bigger, more detailed photo that was easier to view. The larger ...
By the 1870s innovators hoping to ride the card photo wave of popularity were marketing other names and sizes including: Victoria:3.25 x 5 inches Promenade:4 x 7 inches Boudoir: 5.25 x 8.5 inches Panel:8.25 x 4 inches Albumen prints, very thin by nature, required mounting on card stock for their survival. With the introduction later in the 19thcent...
In the 1850s another variation of the card photo became a sensation. The stereograph consisted of two nearly identical photos of a view made with a special double lens camera. The dual prints, precisely mounted side-by-side, provided the illusion of a single, three-dimensional scene when viewed with an apparatus called a stereoscope. The first ster...
The Paper Brigade (also known as Gunther and the Paper Brigade) is a 1996 adventure/comedy film directed by Blair Treu. The film stars Kyle Howard and Robert Englund. The story follows a group of small-town paperboys who band together to prevent bullies from taking over their routes. [1]
The Paper Brigade ★★½ 1996 (PG) Fifteen-year-old Gunther (Howard) gets a paper route to pay for the concert tickets he bought to impress a girl. Now he has to contend with his crazy neighbor (Englund) and a gang of bullies, as well as other obstacles.
During WWII, a small group of Jewish scholars called “the paper brigade” waged a modern Maccabean revolt in an effort to preserve Yiddish literature.
Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereographs, albums and paper print photographs in various formats. Subjects for research include the Civil War and other military history, biography, African Americans, Indians, women’s history, social and domestic history, architecture, transportation, ranching, agriculture, commerce ...
Known as “The Paper Brigade,” they were a group of slave laborers who smuggled and hid rare books and manuscripts in the midst of the Holocaust. Theirs is an incredible story of cultural resistance in the face of almost certain death.
