Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait shows four unidentified children who look to be about 4-13 years old. There are three boys and a girl. The children have freckles, something that often does not show up in 19th century photogrphy. This suggests the family comes from northern Europe, probably Ireland, Scotland, or Scndinavia. The youngest boy wears a fairly standard kilt suit with a cut-aay jacket. Notice the ptterne material used for the collar and cuff. The kilt has a front pannel with two columns of buttons. The two older boys wear lapel sack suits with long pants. The seated boy has a rather loud patterned suit.

This cabinet card portrait shows four unidentified children who look to be about 4-12 years old. There are three boys and a girl. The children have freckles, something that often does not show up in 19th century photogrphy. This suggests the family comes from northern Europe, probably Ireland, Scotland, or Scndinavia. The youngest boy wears a fairly standard kilt suit with a cut-aay jacket. Notice the ptterne material used for the collar and cuff. The kilt has a front pannel with two columns of buttons. The two older boys wear lapel sack suits with long pants. The seated boy has a rather loud patterned suit. His older brother lokks to have a lpel jcket, but with cut-away styling. This is rather unusual, because the cut-away styling was normally for younger boys. Perhaps it is just how he has buttoned his jcket. Their sister wears a stylish dress. It has amall ruffled collar and a jacket top with a vest look. Notice the hem is just at the knee and worn with long stockings. Women at the time wore dresses that covered the ankles. The portrait is undated, but almost certainly dates to he 1870s. The long pants and stocks rather than bows are good indicators. The studio was Rogers in Wichita, Kansas.

Created: December 6, 2002
Last updated: December 10, 2002