Figure 1.--This New York boy is Seymour Ferris. . Seymour wears what looks like a corduroy Norfolk knee pants suit with an Eton collar and small floppy bow. And as with most American boys, dark long stockings and high-top shoes. And as with The card is not dated, but on the back we see that he was born in 1881. As Seymour looks to be about 8 years old or so, it means that the portrait was taken about 1888/89. The studio was Rawson in Brooklyn.

We see a cabinet card of Seymour Ferris, a New York boy. The dealer interpted the writing as Terris, but the writuing on the back shows a strabngely written 'T". We are fauirly confident that the boy's name is Ferris and not Terris because Ferris was a much more common name. We can't say categorically that Terris did not exist, but we can say that it was not a very common name. Seymour wears what looks like a corduroy Norfolk knee pants suit with an Eton collar and small floppy bow. And as with most American boys, dark long stockings abd high-top shoes. And as with The card is not dated, but on the back we see that he was born in 1881. As Seymour looks to be about 8 years old or so, it means that the portrait was taken about 1888/89.

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