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Posted By: David

A cdv is a miniature cabinet card, about the size of a Topps baseball card. Both the cdv and cabinet have a paper photographic print pasted to a sheet of cardboard. A photogravure (aka rotogravure, aka gravure) is a print on paper(not a photograph)that was often used to make high quality reproductions of photographs. Photogravures used to make the images images in some magazines and papers, but were also for higher quality prints. For example, there are photogravure cabinet cards, with a photogravure print pasted to the cardboard sheet instead of a photographic print.