Figure 1.--This cabinet portrait shows a young blond boy about 7 years old. He is identified on the verso as "John W. Watson". John is dressed in a large decorative floppy bow, blouse, knee pants, dark long stockings, and low-cut shoes. The image gives a detailed view of a period blouse as he is not wearing a jacket.

John W. Watson (about 1880)

This cabinet portrait shows a young blond boy about 7 years old. He is identified on the verso as "John W. Watson". John is dressed in a large decorative floppy bow, blouse, knee pants, dark long stockings, and low-cut shoes. The image gives a detailed view of a period blouse as he is not wearing a jacket. He was photographed by Hanlon in Worcester, Massachusetts. The bow and stockings suggest that the portrait was taken in the 1880s. The pose and cloth-covered table seems more like the early 1870s. This might represent a very basic studio, but Worcester was hardly a frontier town. So we might guess the portrait was taken about 1880.






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