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This cabinet card shows a mother with two young children about 4-7 yeats old. The family is unidentified. The oldest child is a girl. We are not sure about the younger child, but we think he may be a boy. Te girl has pig tails the younger child long, uncurled hair. It is difficult to make out details in the white dresses the children are wearing, but they look to be identical with large ruffed collars. They are worn with pantalettes and or petticoats and long black stockings with high-top shoes. The only difference we note is the small bow the younger child is wearing. The portrait is undated, but the mother's dress, especially the balloon shoulder sleeves suggests the late-1890s decade as does the mount color. We see new colored mounts at the turn-of-the 20th century. The studio was Jense Brothers in Allbert Lea, Minnesota.
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