** Francis Allan dress









Figure 1.-- This cabinet card shows a boy with long curly hair wearing a dress with large lace collar. He appears to be wearing a pinafore over his dress. The boy is sitting in a large wicker chair. The photographer is Smith & Clarke in Belleville Ontario. The name of the boy is handwritten in the back, 'Francis Allan, 2 years 4 months'. The portrait is undated, but the style of mount and the whicker furniture suggests the early-1900s to us, orobably about 1900-05.

Francis Allan (Canada, about 1900)

This cabinet card shows a boy with long curly hair although not done in tight ringlets. He vis wearing a dress with large lace collar. He appears to be wearing a pinafore over his dress. The boy is sitting in a large wicker chair. The photographer is Smith & Clarke in Belleville Ontario. The name of the boy is handwritten in the back, 'Francis Allan, 2 years 4 months'. The portrait is undated, but the style of mount and the whicker furniture suggests the early-1900s to us, orobably about 1900-05.







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