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Sample books and sample boards


 
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How did a client choose a pose or a frame? Sample books were the portfolios of the trade, used by traveling salesmen to sell frames or by studio operators to demonstrate lighting styles. These rare artifacts show us the "menu" of options available to the Victorian consumer.

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Review the Options — Browse the portfolios used to sell the photographic image.

Contents

Introduction
1Marketing: Studio daybooks, sitters' books, sample books and sample boards
Photographers
2Malick Sidibe: Catalogues
3Underwood & Underwood: Photographs of the homes and haunts of prominent Mormons in Illinois, Missouri and Utah, and of Salt Lake City and Saltair views. (1903-1911)
4Rufus Morgan: Illustrated Catalogue of Southern Scenery (ca 1869-1878)
5Elliot & Fry: Sample book

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