Cabinet cards
Cabinet card, def. A photographic print mounted on cardboard approximately 4¼ × 6½ inches.
Introduced in the 1860s, cabinet cards superseded the carte-de-visite. The format was common until about 1900. Early cabinet cards typically used albumen prints, although a variety of other processes were used for later cards. The photograph is usually smaller than the card, leaving approximately a half-inch at the bottom, where the name of the photographer or studio was printed.
Source: Dictionary of Archives Terminology
St. Catharines
A formal portrait of a young Black woman by St. Catharines photographer Charles Arthur, 1880-1883.
This unusual head and shoulders portrait with a solid black background was created by St. Catharines photographer Charles Arthur between 1880 and 1883.
This formal head and shoulders portrait of a young Black girl was created by Edwin Poole, one of St. Catharines, Ontario's most prolific and well-known photographers between 1877 and 1900
A formal portrait of Mary Tyrrell prior to her marriage to Charles Henry Bell in 1894
A young Black woman photographed by R. F. [Richard Frank] Uren of St. Catharines, Ontario, 1886-1895.
Two sisters photographed by R. F. [Richrd Frank] Uren of St. Catharines, Ontario, 1886-1895
Other Ontario Locations
Photographed by John Cooper of London & St. Thomas, Ontario, ca. 1874.
Could this be the same young man pictured to the left? Notice the similarity in ears. You be the judge.
Photographed by J. W. Cole of Brampton, Ontario, 1865-1884.
Photographed by W. J. Rea of Windsor, Ontario, ca. 1875
A young woman and her child photographed by John B. Cook, Toronto, 1879-1898.
Photographed by N.C. Shorey in Toronto between 1892 and 1900.
An enlarged view of the younger of the two men
Charlotte, a lovely young Black woman whose name is only known because of her neck pin.
Ruth, a lovely young Black woman. Her first name known only because of her neck pin
Taken by photographer John S. Thom in Lucan, Ontario between 1877 and 1882. This may be a member of the Butler family, ancestors of Iris Sloman Bell.