* United States boys clothes : late-1860s Unidentified young family
Unidentified Young Family (Pennsylvania, late-1860s)
Figure 1.--This cabinet card shows a young family with four young children. They are not identified, but look to be about 1-8 years old. Mother and farher are well, but plainly dressed. Thbere is a baby aliong with two boys and a girl. The girl wears a kind of jacketed dress with a large collar. The younger boy waes a buttoin blouse and pants affair. His older brother wears a vested cut-away jacket suit. Both boys appear to be wearing shortened-length pants, but very long knee pants reaching almost to the ankles. We would guess that it was taken in the late-1860s, but the early-70s is certainly possible. The studio was Kellmer's Photograph Parlors in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
This cabinet card shows a young family with four young children. They are not identified, but look to be about 1-8 years old. Mother and farher are well, but plainly dressed. Thbere is a baby aliong with two boys and a girl. The girl wears a kind of jacketed dress with a large collar. The younger boy waes a buttoin blouse and pants affair. His older brother wears a vested cut-away jacket suit. Both boys appear to be wearing shortened-length pants, but very long knee pants reaching almost to the ankles. We use the tern knee oants as a ggeneric term as they would eventually done at knee lkength, but when they first appeared, as we see here were longer and done basically at calf-length. This at a time that knee-pants were just beginning to catch on for school-age boys. We can not date the portrait with any precission. We would guess that it was taken in the late-1860s, but the early-70s is certainly possible. The studio was Kellmer's Photograph Parlors in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
