Figure 1.-- This small (3"x 2 1/2") cased portrait of an unientified boy may be a tin-type. He looks to b about 5-6 years old. He wears a cut away jacket with a three tab closure. Note that the long pants that don't match the jacket. His hair is done in a top curl and covers his ears at the side. The potrait was probanly taken in the 1850s, perhaps the late-50s.

We are not yet entirely sure about the chronology of the top curls, but we note quite a few in the 1850s. We are more confident about the dating Dags and other cased portraits to the 1850s. Both tin-types and Ambros appeared in the 1850s and thus can not be 1840s images. Ambros and cased tintypes can date to the early-60. We note quite a number of these top roll hair styles in the 1850s. There are numerous examples from both the mid- and late-19th century. Unfortunately we have archived thousands of images, including cased poertaits, before we created this page. Overtime we hope to create the needed links. We have just one 1850s portrait at this time, but we think this was a fairly popular style for fashionable big city mothers. Another problem with the early pgotigrahic formats is tht the studios were rarely identified meabing we do not know where they were taken. .

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Created: 12:22 AM 2/20/2008
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