Figure 1.--This white mount cabinet card is a posed scene, something we o not ee often in portrits. The children look to be about 6-9 years old. The boy wears a Fauntleoy suit with lace collar nd knicker pants. It is difficult to tell what the girl is wearing, but it looks like a smock. The portrait is not dated, but awards on the back dated 1887 and 1888 suggest it was taken about 1889 or 1890. The portrait was taken by Jones of Surbiton.

We see a lot of whitish- or cream-colored mounts in the 1890s. They seem to be especially popular in the 1890s. We ar not yet sure about the various whitish shades in England. The cabinet card portrait on a whilr mount the previous page was taken in 1894. We think there were some with raised printing, but this is difficult to tell without the originals. We do not yet have a good fix on prevalence, but believe white or whitish sjades were the most common color in the 90s. e hope to work on this in more detail as we acuir more images for our British archive.

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