Figure 1.--This little American boy looks to be about 4-5 years old. He was from Pottsville, Pennsylvania which had an important coal mine. The studio was the National Gallery. The cabinent card is undated, but the perforated edges suggest to us that it was taken about 1890. The unidentified boy wears to us what looks like a jockey cap with dark his kilt suit. The material has more of a shiny finish than was common with these suits. Thecjacket had velvet trim.

We see some boys in kilt suits wearing peaked caps with very pronounced caps. These were different that the peaked school caps that were popular in Britain. I'm not sure just what they were called in the late-19th century. They look to us rather like a jockey cap. Perhaps there is a better name. We would appreciate reader comment here. Some had pronounced bands, unlike school caps. And some had crowns done in sections, rather like school caps. The colors might be made to match the kilt suit. The jockey cap has a sporty look to our modern eyes. It thus does not seem to look just right with a suit. But the mother who chose apparently saw it as a formal stle. This was not a particularly common style, but we do see them being worn in the 1890s. We are not sure about others outfits with which they were worn.

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