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Man in a Vignette of Torn Newspaper - Cabinet Card

My sister, husband, and I paid a visit to a local antique mall where I bough six photographs and a painted cabinet card frame. I am posting the six photographs and will add the painted cabinet card holder when I have found the card I want to display in it..

 

I have seen several cabinet cards of subjects with their heads thrust through holes in a newspaper. It seemed to be a common style. This cabinet card by E. J. Chrisman of Waterville, Minnesota is a variation. The photographer has made a photograph of The Waterville Advance newspaper of July 31, 1889. The center has been torn out to make a vignette for the portrait of a young man. Did the paper have a particular significance for him?

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Uploaded on September 26, 2011