Figure 1.--This unidebtified child certainly looks like a boy. The cabinet portrait was made in the Cincinnati, Ohio studio of Weckmau (indistinct). The child is wearing a fashionabe plaid dress. Plaid was a popular pattern for boys' dresses. The dress has large baloon shoulders with contrasring black sleeves and hem. The portrait is undated, but we thouught it might have been taken in the 1880s. The dress style, however, looks more like the 1890s. That was rather old for a boy to still be wearing dtress, but certainly not unknown at the time for well-to-do boys being schooled at home. The child looks about 7-8 years old. While he appears to be a boy, the flower basket is confusing.

This unidentified child certainly looks like a boy. The cabinet portrait was made in the Cincinnati, Ohio studio of Weckmau (indistinct). The child is wearing a fashionabe plaid dress. Plaid was a popular pattern for boys' dresses. The dress has large baloon shoulders with contrasting lower black sleeves and hem. The portrait is undated, but we thouught it might have been taken in the 1880s. The dress style, however, looks more like the 1890s. That was rather old for a boy to still be wearing drresses, but not entirely unknown at the time for well-to-do boys being schooled at home. The child looks about 7-8 years old. While he appears to be a boy, the flower basket is confusing. That is usually a prop for a girl. A mother who would keep a boy in dresses this long, however, might just choose a flower basket. Without an inscription, there is now way to be sure and some girls did have very short.hair.

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