Figure 1.--The usefulness of photographs as historical documents is strongly correlated with their provinence. They are most useful if we know who the people are and when they were photographed. Often HBC acquires images with no provinance. All that HBC knows about this image, for example, is that it is American. We can only guess the date, probably about 1880. Note the boys' small collar and lapel and his watch fob. Also note the checkered stockings. |
A much less popular style was various checkered pattens. These patterns varied widely. Generally they had a solid backgrond in a dark color with avariety of horizontal and verical lines, somewhat similar to plaid. HBC at this time has so few images of children wearing this pattern, we are unable to access it in any detail.
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