Figure 1.-- This CDV portrait shows Eddie Pierce seated on highback chair. While he is identifid, we have no other informtion about Eddie. He looks to be about 4 years old and wears a checked jacketed dress with a white scalloped collar. He also wears a white long stockings. He has long hair, that apparently his mother tried do in ringlets, but they look rather stringy. . We know his name because the portrait was in a Pierce family CDV album which had an identifying index. Click on the image to see the index listing. The studio was J. C. Moulton in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Fitchburg was a mill town.

This CDV portrait shows Eddie Pierce seated on highback chair. Eddie of course was a fammilar name, is actual name was Edward Pierce. While he is identifid, we have no other informtion about Eddie. He looks to be about 4 years old and wears a checked jacketed dress with a white scalloped collar. He also wears a white long stockings. He has long hair, that apparently his mother tried do in ringlets, but they look rather stringy. We see more boys wearing dresses in the 1860s. We do not notice nearly as many in the early phtographic record (1840s-50s). We suspect that this may relect the increasing prosperity of rapidly industrialzing America. We don't see that very often. We believe the portrait was taken in the 1860s, but the early-70s is possible. We know his name because the portrait was in a Pierce family CDV album which had an identifying index. Some albums were done as scrapbooks, but there were albums done with heavy manufactured pages that had prepared slots in which the CDVs or cabinets card portraits could be inserted. The expensive ones had gilded edges. The studio was J. C. Moulton in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Fitchburg was a mill town.

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