Permission to publish material from the Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia Cabinet Cards, must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia Cabinet Cards, Ms 2011-024, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
The Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia Cabinet Cards were purchased by Special Collections in 2011.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia Cabinet Cards was completed in March 2011.
The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was invented in 1850 by Louis Desire Blanquart-Evard. It was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. Using the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper, the process became the dominate form of photographic positives from 1855 to the turn of the 20th century. During the mid-19th century, the carte de visite became one of the most popular uses of the process.
The collection consists of 23 cabinet cards featuring individuals, couples, children, and adults. Photographers are from Bristol, TN/VA, Bluefield, WV, and Roanoke, Lynchburg, Christiansburg, Richmond, Radford, and Pulaski, VA.
The images are arranged in alphabetical order by the photographer/photography studio.