Figure 1.--This cabinet portrait shows a little blond boy shown seated on a couch wearing a dress, long stockings and button shoes. The dress was a dark color, but we are unsure about the color. It had what looks likewhite contrastinng trim as piping on the edges of the garment. Large numbers of buttons were used in the decoration. The boy is identified as "Clifford Kellogg Colton 4 yr old 1888." The studio was the Johnson Bros, Watertown, N.Y., as indicated by the decorative script at bottom of the card.

This cabinet portrait shows a little blond boy shown seated on a couch wearing a dress, long stockings and button shoes. The dress was a dark color, but we are unsure about the color. It was a jacketed dress, but we don't think that the jacket was an ctual separate grment that could be removed. It had what looks likewhite contrastinng trim as piping on the edges of the garment. Large numbers of buttons were used in the decoration. The boy is identified as "Clifford Kellogg Colton 4 yr old 1888." The studio was the Johnson Bros, Watertown, N.Y., as indicated by the decorative script at bottom of the card.

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