card photographs (photographs)
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Commercially-produced photographs mounted on thick card stock, slightly larger than the image. The surrounding card space is usually printed or embossed with the photographer's name or insignia, while the back usually bears the photographer's imprint. They were made by a variety of processes in different standard sizes.Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs of 19th-century sternwheeler trip and railroad construction camps
Small collection of 17 photographs, 14 of which are snapshots by an unidentified photographer of a late-19th-century sternwheeler trip on the Willamette River, including scenes in Portland and Oregon City, Oregon. The other three photographs are cabinet cards by Edward J. Partridge, which depict scenes from a camp for railroad construction workers.
Hettie V. Starr photograph album
Album that belonged to Hettie V. Starr, containing black and white photographs, primarily card photographs and tintypes, as well as several loose photographs. The images are studio portraits of adults and children, most unidentified. Identified people include several members of the Starr family.
Tabor family photographs
Collection consists of 21 card photographs collected by J. W. Tabor and Margaret Tabor dating to circa 1895 and depicting Portland, Oregon, Celilo Falls, and Granite, Oregon.
Bessie Thompson Teal photograph album
Album containing 12 card photographs, nearly all of which are studio portraits of Bessie Thompson Teal (1867-1943) at various ages, from 2 to her late 30s. Teal was the daughter of Oregon politician David P. Thompson and Mary Meldrum Thompson.