Figure 1.--This promotional cabinet card portrait shows the Little Johnson Brothers a traveling family band. The boys look to be about 5-14 years old. They seem to have been based in Willimantic, Connecticut.

The American traveling Vernon brothers played, sang, whistled. They were a three brother musical group age about 5-14 years of age. A reader writes, "Great picture. I suspect the youngest child is older than 5 but that is only a guess. Often prodigies were dressed younger than their actual age which was seen as dding to their appeal." The boys were not precisely prodigies, but certainly musically talented. We see violins, flute annd what looks like a chello. They seem to have been based in Willimantic, Connecticut. They were styled the Little Verson Brithers, although only the youngest boy was really little. He wears a Fauntleroy suit and has long uncurled hair. We do not know how widely they traveled. We do note them performing at the Philipstown Methodist Episcopal Church in 1896 under the auspices of the Epworth League Society. Philipstown is just a few miles north of New York City.