In vintage photography the most misused terms are CDV ad cabinet card photos. A CDV is always approximately 2.5 by 4" by its very nature from its name, Carte de Visite, meaning visitng card and thus the size....
Every antique American photograph is a fascinating piece of our history, an image of long-lost people, places and things, miraculously surviving into the present day. Searching eBay's offerings, you might find...
Antique photography opens a door to the past and gives us a glimpse into the lives of people who walked the earth before we did. There are as many reasons to collect the different varieties of antique photos...
TAX STAMPS ON ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHY You've seen them on the occasional carte de visite cdv image or tintype or even ambrotype or daguerreotype. They look like postage stamps. They may have initials scrawled on...
What is a cdv photo? Those three letters are an acronym for the French carte de visite or visiting card. This style of antique photography took over in popularity from the daguerreotype or ambrotype of the...
Why do they have pink cheeks? Although most antique photographs are found in black white, occaisonally you may find a cdv , tintype , or ambrotype with applied coloration. The sitter's cheeks might be tinted a...
Preserve those ambrotypes , daguerreotypes , cabinet cards ,tintypes , and cdv images for the next 150 years! These photographs have survived many years of storage and handling. But images are delicate, and...
While I have been selling a broad spectrum of vintage photographs, of late I have concentrated more on images, CDVs and tintypes, from the Civil Era of the 1860s. And of late I have taken flak from another...
COLLECTING AND EVALUATING CIVIL WAR SURGEON’S IMAGES, CDV's, AND PHOTOGRAPHS By Paul R. Johnson, M.D., F.A.C.S. Evaluation of Civil War Surgical Images: Viewing and evaluating an image from the Civil War for...
What is the Art cdv card? You may have noticed carte de visite images that are not photographs at all, but reproductions of paintings or drawings or engravings. Some may have a poem, or an emotional title. ...