Figure 1.--This family cabinet card portrait shows three unidentified stair-step brothers about 5-9 years of age. They are all dressed in identical knee pants sailor suits with black long stockings and high-top shoes. The only difference we can see is that the middle boy has a left hair part. The sailor suits are a light color, perhaps light blue but we are unsure. The portrait is undated, but we would guess was taken about 1900, partly because of the mount.

The sailor suit was at the height of its populrity in America during the 1900s. We note many boys and girls commonly wearing sailor suits. Youngr boys might wear sailor tunics. Many of our family sailor suit portraits come from the 1900s. So far they seem to be pre-teen bous, although som may be about 12-years of age. we have only found boys in these family dailor suit portraits. The cabinet portrait here shows three boys identified as Joe, Archie, and Alex (figure 1). all of theportraits we have found just show boys in these matched sailor suit portraits. They are all dressed in identical dark sailor suits. They seem to have a white collar junder their sailor collars. This suggests the boys were brothers, perhaps 6-12 years of age. The boys all look different, but surely must be brothers. Note the embroidered anchor symbol on their dickies. The portrait is undated, but the mount and sailor suit style suggests the 1900s.

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