Figure 1.--This is a CDV portrait of Harry Shaw. The boy's face is slightly out of focus. He looks to be 5-6 years old. The sphotorapher was Fred Ash who had studios at South Beach Blackpool and Orchard Street St Anne's on the Sea. This suggest that Harry was on vaction ith his parents and not a resident of these beach resorts. He wears a tam with a colored sailor suit. We assume it was a blue suit, but there is no way to tell. The blouses is traditionally styled, but the knee pants are done with decortive stripes. You can tell this is not an American boy because he is not wearing long stockings.

Harry Shaw (England, about 1890)

This is a CDV portrait of Harry Shaw. The boy's face is slightly out of focus. He looks to be 5-6 years old. The sphotorapher was Fred Ash who had studios at South Beach Blackpool and Orchard Street St Anne's on the Sea. The CDV format continue to be populsar in Europe during the late 19th century when it had largely disappeared in America. The mount was done to look like a minature cabinet card. The locatin of the studio suggests that Harry was on vaction with his parents and not a resident of these beach resorts. He wears a tam with a colored sailor suit. We assume it was a blue suit, but there is no way to tell. The blouses is traditionally styled with the standard three stripes, both on the collar and sleeve cuffs. He has aplain hite dickey and white sailor scarve. The knee pants are done with decortive stripes. We see this in some 19th centry sailor suits. You can tell this is not an American boy because he is not wearing long stockings. Harry's hair is cut short in bangs, a popular style for younger boys. The portrait is undated, We would guess it was taken about 1890, but we are not all that sure about that estimate.









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