I just love fancy wicker furniture from the late 1880s, during the Victorian era, and started collecting “cabinet cards” that featured this lovely wicker furniture in them many years ago.
These 1800s wicker furniture “cabinet cards” are a couple that I really like, not only because of the wicker but also because of the pictures of the baby and the young child.
I’m sorry that the entire cabinet card pictures are not on this post, which would have included the bottom photography studio information, such as the name and address.
I will search through my stack and see if I can’t come up with pictures of the entire cabinet cards. You’ll enjoy seeing that, I’m sure!
Notice that these professional photographs were taken using the identical wicker “posing” chair, but if memory serves, were not even shot in the same photography studio, nor in the same state.
This Victorian wicker chair with its ball and stick design and pressed cane seat with embellishments of loops, curlicues, bird cages and fancy spider-web cane design in the back was a very popular “posing” chair used in the photography studios. Also, can you see part of the mother’s arm on the left side of the picture with the baby?
The young child on the left is a boy, believe it or not, with those long, curly locks! I have a picture of my maternal grandfather when he was about two years old, taken in about 1907 and in that picture, my grandfather also has long, curly blond ringlets.
Aren’t these Victorian wicker furniture “cabinet cards” fun? I have many, many more cabinet cards featuring wicker furniture that I will share with you in future blog posts, so stay tuned.
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My wife and I have this chair. It came from her Great Grandmother’s home in Orange, Texas.
Oh, Dan, how wonderful for you and your wife to own an heirloom piece like this Victorian wicker photographer’s posing chair! Is yours in original stained and varnished condition or has it been painted?
Either way, you have a great wicker piece there, cherish it because they are very few and far between. See my hints and tips for keeping your wicker in tip-top shape, common wicker materials used, history of wicker and much more! https://www.WickerWoman.com/articles/