Figure 1.--These two Cumbria children look to be about 10 years old. They are dressed up for a pecial occassion, perhaps a May Day celebration. Their clothes, however, are not costumes, but look like their best dress outfits. The girl wears a white dress. The boy a Highland kilt outfit. Notice their medals. These are probably academic wards. The cabinet card portrait is undated, but the mount looks like the 1890s to us. The studio was J.R. Wilkinson in Brackelands, Wigton. Wigton is in Cumbria, the northern English county bordering the Scottish Lowlands. |
