Preferred label
Card photographs
Broader term
Photographs
Narrower terms
Boudoir card photographs
Cabinet photographs
Cartes de visite
Imperial card photographs
Kodak card photographs
Panel card photographs
Promenade card photographs
Victoria card photographs
Related terms
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Scope note
Paper photographic prints made by a variety of processes on commercially produced cardboard mounts of standard sizes (with some variation). Introduced in the 1850s. This term includes negatives and unmounted photographic prints intended for such standard mounts. Often portraits.
Editorial note
As desired, also index under the type of photographic process.
Change note
Formerly TGMI term & TGMII term.