Victorian Black-and-White Photo - Elegant Matriarchial Oval Portrait - 1860s Oval Photo on Damaged Cabinet Card Norwich Back information: Commercial Chrome Postcard

Back information: Commercial Chrome Postcard

Publisher: Deluxe Greeting Gard Co

On back: The Hassayampa Hotel

Front: George Washington Bridge

Postmark: [month unclear] 28

Victorian Black-and-White Photo - Elegant Matriarchial Oval Portrait - 1860s Oval Photo on Damaged Cabinet Card Norwich Back information: Commercial Chrome PostcardThis older woman is posed for a photo where she is the star of the show! Perhaps her family wanted children to have a photo of their grandmother or the family matriarch in the latest photographic style. Her very thin, fashionable collar and pulled back hair indicates that her sense of style was from the 1860s. However, large oval pictures became popular in the 1870s 80s, when technology and photo resolution improved. Her jewelry particularly stands