A CABINET WORLD:different Cabinets

[slidekellyslide]

[kdixon]

Here is Zach Wheat when he played for the Prairie Roses of Kansas City. He is the player on the left of the top row.

[tedzan]

TED Z
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LOOKING for these 5 - T206 guys to complete my EXCLUSIVE 12 red HINDU sub-set (12 subjects)

FORD....GANDIL....McGRAW (glove)....PFEFFER....SHECKARD (glove)

[tedzan]

I'm not sure if this 1904 Buffalo Bisons team card qualifies as a Cabinet. The picture measures 4" x 5" and
is on a 7" x 9" mount. In any event it's my favorite. It was a "walk-in" at the Cooperstown Show in 1994.

Familiar guys are Stallings, Clymer, Joe Delehanty, Grimshaw, Kisinger, LaPorte, Natress, Al Shaw, Yerkes.

I'm curious, does anyone on this forum have an idea what this team card is worth ?







TED Z

[joeadcock]

From B&L auctions, a Cuban cabinet

[Pythonfactory]

If you look at the vast majority of the items posted, the player isn't looking directly at the camera. Why is this?

[RUKen]

Originally Posted by Pythonfactory

If you look at the vast majority of the items posted, the player isn't looking directly at the camera. Why is this?

Given that the necessary exposure times then were much longer than today's (no "point and click") and the likelihood that the photographer was using a strong light, it would have been difficult to keep looking directly at the camera. The long exposure time is also why the early photographic portraits do not feature people smiling.

[Pythonfactory]

Originally Posted by RUKen

Given that the necessary exposure times then were much longer than today's (no "point and click") and the likelihood that the photographer was using a strong light, it would have been difficult to keep looking directly at the camera. The long exposure time is also why the early photographic portraits do not feature people smiling.

Thanks for the insight!

How long were the exposures for cabinets and 19th century cards such as Old Judge?

[Joe_G.]

Originally Posted by RUKen

Given that the necessary exposure times then were much longer than today's (no "point and click") and the likelihood that the photographer was using a strong light, it would have been difficult to keep looking directly at the camera. The long exposure time is also why the early photographic portraits do not feature people smiling.

By the late 1880s, "instantaneous" photography was commonplace. Exposure times were often a fraction of a second. This made it possible to capture galloping horses in great detail etc. Some Old Judge cards show the player peering directly into the camera, others do not. The rare smile has more to do with what was deemed acceptable and appropriate vs a concern of holding a steady face during the exposure timeframe.