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Vintage Strunk Studio Reading PA Baby Portrait Cabinet Photo 5x7 Sepia Orig
Original antique early 20th-century sepia gelatin silver cabinet card photograph featuring a studio portrait of a baby girl seated in a white dress.
The composition presents the child posed frontally on a decorative wicker or scroll-back chair, wearing a long gown with lace-trimmed sleeves and ruffled bodice, dark shoes just visible at the hem, and a bow set in her curled hair against a neutral painted studio backdrop.
Printed in warm sepia tones as a gelatin silver image on photographic paper in an oval format, the photograph is mounted to a textured layered card with concentric embossed borders surrounding the image and additional crest-style embossed devices at the upper and lower front margins.
The lower front of the mount carries the studio imprint and heraldic shield reading "Strunk, 730 Penn St., Reading, Pa," identifying the photographer and situating the portrait in Pennsylvania, while the reverse of the mount is plain and unprinted; well suited for collections focused on babies, children, family portraiture, or regional studio photography, the piece is offered as a single original unframed cabinet card, with any brass display easel, ruler, or other props visible in the listing photos shown for scale and presentation only and not included.
Condition: Original antique early 20th-century sepia gelatin silver mounted photograph with typical handling and storage wear from age and use. Image surface shows light overall age toning with scattered faint spots, small areas of surface soil, a few shallow creases and fine surface scuffs visible in glare, and a small tear or crease with tiny loss along the lower right edge of the baby's dress area, while the photographic paper remains intact without full tears through the figure. Textured embossed card mount displays moderate edge and corner wear including slight rounding and small nicks at the tips, small scattered stains, minor rubbing, and a subtle overall curve to the card, with the reverse plain and uninscribed; photograph is offered as a single original unframed cabinet card only, with any brass display easel, ruler, or other props visible in the listing photos shown for scale and presentation only and excluded.
- Size: 5 x 7 in
- Material: Cardboard, Paper
