Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait provides us a look of the Philipps children from Avoca a small town in western Iowa. The portrait shows two boys and a girl, presumably siblings. Their names are Archie 6 years old, Louie 4 years old, and Ivan 8 months. We at first thought Louie was a boys given that mny younger boys at the time wore dresses. Louie is a boys name, but here it seems to be a nickname, her actual name may have neen Louisa.

This cabinet card portrait provides us a look of the Philipps children from Avoca a small town in western Iowa. The portrait shows two boys and a girl, presumably siblings. Their names are Archie 6 years old, Louie 4 years old, and Ivan 8 months. We at first thought Louie was a boys given that many younger boys at the time wore dresses. Louie is a boys name, but here it seems to be a nickname. Louie was a girl and her actual name may have neen Louisa. Research shows their last name was Philips. The 1910 U.S.Census shows Louie was a girl born in 1895, brother Archie (or Archer) in 1893, and baby Ivan in 1898. The portrait is undated, but the Census dta shows that the portrait was taken in 1899. Their parents had three more children by 1910. Archie wears a Fauntleroy blouse with a small floppy bow. Floppy bows could be huge in the 1890s, but by the turn-of-the century the peak had been reached abd we see the suzes declining. His hair is done in ringlets and a top curl. His sister wears a plaid dress with shoulder ruffles. Her hair is don in ringlets with hair bows. The studio is Brandt Bros. in Avoca.

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