This is a cabinet photo of a bride and groom from Vienna, Austria. Austria was the "Austro" part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time, Hapsburgs and all. It must have been an interesting Empire, but it didn't survive WWI.
There are a couple of interesting things about this photo: the subjects, and the clothing styles of the bride.
The man seems to be extremely tall, and the woman is normal height at best. He is taller than she is, even though he his seated and she is standing. It's true, she's leaning in a little, but if he were standing, she probably would not even reach his shoulder, height wise.
The woman's dress is inconveniently short for a cabinet photo. I always thought that these kinds of photos were exclusively from the late 19th or very early 20th century. To me her wedding dress looks straight out of the 1920s, and if that is true it is very inconvenient indeed. My knowledge would be somewhat shaken.
Of course this photo is from Europe so maybe they made these types of photos later there, maybe clothing styles changed there before they did in the USA. I know from photos that styles were somewhat different - for example, a lot of central European men of the late 19th & early 20th century had "Kaiser Bill" (handlebar) mustaches - most American men didn't. But it's hard to believe a woman in the 1890s would wear a dress that short.
I don't like it when things in photos don't quite match things I thought I knew. It's a nice photo tho.
From "a History of Cabinet Cards - Timeline": Last Used. The cabinet card was popular and continued to be produced until the early 1900s and quite a bit longer in Europe. The last cabinet cards were produced in the twenties, perhaps as late as 1924.
ReplyDeleteI agree tho that the dress is probably from the 1920's...
Thanks for the info - that explains it. Her clothing looks 1920s to me.
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