Cabinet card photograph
3 5/8 in x 5 3/4 in / 9.2 x 14.6 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, AZ
This 1880s cabinet card shows a costumed Western couple photographed by Wendt Photo Artist on the Bowery in New York. The image reflects the popularity of Western dress, theatrical portraiture, and frontier imagery in late nineteenth-century American studio photography. The Bowery studio imprint places the photograph within an urban commercial setting rather than an actual frontier location.
The figures are posed with hats, fringed garments, belts, boots, and props that create a staged Western identity for the camera. Cabinet cards of this period were made for display, exchange, and collecting, often blending portraiture with popular visual themes. This example is useful as a document of how the American West was imagined and performed in photographic studios during the 1880s.
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Cabinet card photograph
3 5/8 in x 5 3/4 in / 9.2 x 14.6 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, AZ
This 1880s cabinet card shows a costumed Western couple photographed by Wendt Photo Artist on the Bowery in New York. The image reflects the popularity of Western dress, theatrical portraiture, and frontier imagery in late nineteenth-century American studio photography. The Bowery studio imprint places the photograph within an urban commercial setting rather than an actual frontier location.
The figures are posed with hats, fringed garments, belts, boots, and props that create a staged Western identity for the camera. Cabinet cards of this period were made for display, exchange, and collecting, often blending portraiture with popular visual themes. This example is useful as a document of how the American West was imagined and performed in photographic studios during the 1880s.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
