Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shws a boy identified as George with a book. The writing on the back tell us that he was 5 years old. His tunic is a little unusual in that the body of the tunic and leeves are a different material. He has aargewhite pointed collar, somewhat similar to an Eton collar. He weas it with what looks like a cross tie. The back reads, "5 years old to George, From Ed. Irving (writing inditint] Doesn't he look like Will." Edward was written in lightly and a later point. We at first though his nme was George, but now we think Edward / Ed is more likeky. The portrait is undated, but the CDV format and set suggests the early-1870s. The studio was Nims in Fort Edward, New York.

We have just begun to assess age conventions for American tunics in the 1870s. So far we have noted boys 2/3 -5 years of ages wearing tunics, but we believe older boys wore them as well. We are jut beginning to assess age trends. But hope to do so as HBC expands. The boy on the previous page looks to be about 2/3 years old. We note a CDV portrait for a New York boy we think named Edward who is noted to be 5 years old (figure 1). We notice an unidentified boy who looks to us to be about 6 years old. We see an unidentified boy who looks to be about 8 years old. We would call his garment a short tunic, but it is styled differently than a standard tunic. We would describe it as a cross between a tunic and a cut-away jacket.

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