Photo types

Information about the different types of photos you may find in your family history photo collection.

You can browse by scrolling down or jump to a photo type using the buttons below:

Sizes and date ranges are given as guideline only.

Information about daguerreotypes
Information about anbrotypes
Information about tintypes
Information about Cartes-de-Visite
Information about cabinet cards
Information about real photo postcards
Information about about large mounted prints
Information about roll film prints

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