Figure 1.-- This cabinet casrd portrait of an American boy wearing a Fauntleroy suit and ringlet curls was dated April 23, 1894. The name Walter J. Richmond is written at the top of the back of the card. And we assumed him to be the boy in the portrait. Curiously, Walter's name has a small line through it. Written below is "Percy Wainscott became a wrestler. We thus have no idea if the portrait is Walter or Percy. .

This cabinet casrd portrait of an American boy wearing a Fauntleroy suit and ringlet curls was dated April 23, 1894. The name Walter J. Richmond is written at the top of the back of the card. And we assumed him to be the boy in the portrait. Curiously, Walter's name has a small line through it. Written below is "Percy Wainscott became a wrestler. We thus have no idea if the portrait is Walter or Percy. Perhaps some relatives will know. The boy wears an open but not cut-away jacket held together with an unusual conecting strip. The jacket seems tio be a dufferent colior than the panhts whichb is something we rarekly see with Fauntkeroy suits. He has a large white collar trimmed with eyelet lace and matching wrist cuffs worn with a plaid floppy boy. He looks to be about 5 years old. As was stabndard in America he wears knee pants and black long stockings. Notice the bows at the knees. the boy has loosely formed ringlets and straight0=-cut bangs. Notice the wicker furtniture which we begin to see at mid-decade. The studio was Caldwell & Kent in Brockton, Massachuttes. The state is not added, unusual for American cabinet cards.

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