…among people of the class who in former years were liberal patrons and are able to pay good prices, it is no longer fashionable to display photographs, except as mere cheap souvenirs, and as a possible basis for future use in copying, etc.

1892.

Photography in America: The formative years, 1839-1900 by William Welling

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