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The three children in an unidentified family were photographed at Clayton's studio at the corner of Santa Clara and Market Streets in San Jose, presumably California. California was very lightly populated until the Mexican War (1846-48). Large numbers of people were drawn to California by the discovery of gold (1848). It quickly was admitted to the Union (1850). This portrairt dies not have a Federal revenue stamp so presumasbly it was taken after the Civil War in the late 1860s. The older child is a girl wearing a plaid dress. The middle age child is a boy wearing a juvenile suit with bloomer knickers. We are unsure about the younger child wearing an elasborate hair style and plain-colored dressith a low-neckline. This was quite cimmon for young children. We would guess the child is a boy, but we are not sure.
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