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This tin-type portrait shows an unidentified child wearing a plaid dress. As with tin-types, there is no writing on the back. It is undated, but e would giess it was tsken in the 1870s. So all we have to go on is the image itself. The child looks like a boy, but with younger children this can be misleading. And the bangs the child's hair is done in could be for a boy or girl. It is boys that usually had short hair, but girls could have short hair as well. The child looks to be about 7 years old. The dress is plaid and aather plain design with little decoration, except for a large white collar in an Eton style. The collar gives a boyish look to the outfit. Collars like thast were not common with girls' dresses, but the purse is more associated with girls today. We are not entirely sure, hiowever, at the time the portrait was taken.
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