When I was working with antique cabinet cards for my Flower People series, I often found the typography below the photos and the graphics on the back to be just as intriguing as the portraits. There was such a rich material of artful illustration, script logos, dingbats and swishes that I couldn't resist taking them apart just to put them back together in different colors, sizes and orientations.

Here are 4 examples of these excercises and some shots of the original material.