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Posted By: Hankron

Composite photography was common in the 19th and early 20th century. It inolved the mixing and matching of different images into one photograph. Commonly this was done exposing one image after another onto photographic paper. It was also done by 'cutting and pasting' images against a background, then photographic the result. The photographer would have a background design or image (empty baseball field, for example) then affix little player images to the background. In some cases the little pictures were pinned to the background and, in the resulting cabinet card or real photo postcard, you can actualy see the pins!

Though the loadtime is lengthy for this page, the below link has some examples of different composite photos-- including some most striking examples.

http://cycleback.com/composites.htm