Figure 1.--We found a painted portrait of Geoffrey Keen painted in 1895. All we know about him is that his father was Percy Keen. Geoffrey was painted in full Highlnd garb. Notice the large bonnet. |
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The HBC biography section is for people or families that have achieved some degree of notariety or fame. HBC readers in many cases have submitted family portraits. HBC has until now not added them to the biography section. We believe now that this is a mistake. Many of the HBC readers contributing family portraits can also provide details about the boy and him family. This background information help us to assess social trends and put the fashions involved in perspective. This is just why the biographical section is an important part of HBC. As a result, HBC has decided to create pages for these relatively unknown people, when some basic family data is available. Incidentally if you find a relative here, please do tell us somehing about him. Here we are listing these biographies alpahabetically to facilitate looking up individual names. The alphabdetical list is the primary data base in this section. While we have not persued geneolgical resreach on these individual, having the names and in many cases the loaction provide the potential to acquire more back ground information in the future which may provide additonal insights into the fashion and life style trends.
Oliver Ingraham had his portrait taken in the early 1900s. He was photographed by Champney of Rockport, Maine. The resulting portrait was an interesting record of his first haircut. There are a series of three early photos showing Oliver in a white sailor tunic before and after his first grownup haircut that trims away his beautiful long curls.
We have two portraits of John Irwin from Franklin, O. The "O" probably meas Ohio. Both portraits are identified as John Irwin on the back. Both portraits were taken at the Ryding photo studio. The first portraits shows John dressed to the nines in a fancy Fauntleroy kilt suit. He was probably around 2-3 years old. He stands beside a parlor chair with a floral spry on the seat and what appears to be a bell in his hand. The mounting was not acabinent cad and suggests to us that the portrait was tken about the turn-of-the-20th centuyry, perhaps few years before but not much earlier. The second portrait shows John a few years later about age 6 years. He holds a basket of flowers in one hand and a flower in the other. Handwritten on the back is the following..."John Irwin son of Sallie Hankinson Irwin died in Battan March also served in Mexican War".
This portrait of Charles Marian Jacols (1856-1922) and Anne Margarita Jacoles, brother and sister, was painted in 1864. The hand writing is hard to read. We are not sure about the spelling of their last name. We know that they were Ameicans , but we are not sure where they were from. The trees in the background suggest a northern state. Ann Wears a plaid dress with what looks like a small hoop. Charles wears a palin long pants suit.
Hugh was an American boy who had his curls cut at about age 5 or 6. His mother decided to have his curls photographed in great detail and we have several before and after photographs. Interesting, all eight ringlets were then tied on a ribbon for safe keeping. The photographs look to be taken about 1905-10.
This early CDV portrait shows two boys in Civil War-style military uniforms. One boy is posed with a rifle fitted with bayonet and the other with a sword. There is a bugle on his kepi. The uniforms have a star on the chest. The boys are Fred Latimer and Colby Jeffrey. The boys attended the Hill Stree School in New London, Connecticut. It appers to be a privte school. Given this fact and the elaborate uniforms, we assume the boys came from a prominant family. The CDV was found in a collecion of Newcomb family matrial. Apparently the boys exchnged photographs. The uniforms suggest it was a military school, but they appear to be more of a patriotic flourish. The boys probably wore them for drill. These boys were assifned to Star Company. The photogrpher was Morgan & Bolles, New London.
The boy in this CDV portrait is identified as Henry Johnson on the reverse. Rhe studio is not identified or is it dated. The fact that there is on logo on the CDV and no reventue stamp suggests to us thst it was an early CDV. We believe it was taken in 1861 or 62. He holds an elongated kepi, but this does not appear to be a uniform. These collar buttoning jackets were a popular boy's style in the 1850s and early 60s. The dog looks like it is stuffed.
The family of of Leonard Martin Johnson and Victoria Irene Johnson lived in Illinois. Both were born in Stockholm Township. The family consisted of Ione (born 1894); Julia (1896); Erma (1897); Lowell (1899); Loyal (1901); John (1904); and Beulah (1905). The children are pictured in a 1907 portrait. The children are dressed alike. The boys all wears fancy blouses with large collars and floppy bows. The firls in contrast wear rathr plain plaid dresses.
This formal portrait shows Lewis Overaker's mother, Clarissa Jones, at the age of 2 years, with her older brother James Jones, Lewis's uncle (aged 6). This photo was taken in 1913 in Springfield, Ill. The children are dressed for a formal studio portrait. The girl wears a white dress, white long stockings, white spats and black shoes. Her older brother wears a tunic suit done in the sailor style, but all white without stripes. The silor collar was ruffled. This was a popular style at the time, including the all-white outfits. The outfit has a white dickey and a black belt. With his tunic suit he wears matching white bloomer knickers and, white long stockings, and black button-spats over his black shoes.
Here we are not sure about the boy's name, but think it might be Roscoe Jones. It is a useful image, because it shows how American boys commonly dressed in the 1910s. The boy here wears a shirt, knickers, and black long stockings. This was how the vast majority of American boys dressed at the time. He was photographed outside his home with his musical instrument. Many photographs at the time are taken outside the home in the sunlight , because of the complications associated with indoor photography.
This cabinet portrait shows a boy on fancy horse drawn cart. The portrait was taken by Vail, 254 Main, Poughkeepsie New York in 1875. The boy is Tom Kamnst 1875. Tom wears striped long stockings, fancy jacket and pointed hat. Tom holds the reigns of a marvelous cart with painted wing sides and drawn by two great wooden horses. This was a hobby horse affair any little boy would die for. A whip sits in a holder on the side.
This photo of Ruth and Herbert Karliner of Silesia was taken in 1937. Silesia at the time was German. It was a province fought over by Germany (Prussia), Austria, and Poland. An Ameican reader writes, "This photograph reminded me of my dress-up clothes as a boy. Herbert
is wearing the same kind of single breasted wool suit with short pants, collar and tie, and long stockings that I wore at his age. He is about 11 or 12 in this picture. His sister Ruth is about 10 years old. The only real difference from my childhood clothes was that my stockings were a lighter tan or beige. Herbert is wearing rather dark stockings, although I am not sure about the color. And I think my trousers might have been just a bit shorter by a couple of inches." The photo was taken in Peiskretscham, Germany, during the NAZI era. After World war II, Silesia was transferred back to Poland. The Karliners would have had to moved west to Germany. Many followed the retreating Wehrmacht in 1945. Most of those who remained were expelled by the Poles after the War.
This portrait of Mrs. J. Kastner's children was taken during March, 1929, in Montreal. There are two siblings--a boy and his sister who seem to be about 7 or 8 years old. The girl wears an interesting print dress with a bodice front and lacings. The boy wears a white shirt and striped tie, a patterned pullover sweater, woolen knitted shorts and tan long stockings with hose supporters. The tan long stockings seem to be worn both for formality and for warmth. These are dress-up clothes, since the photograph was taken at a professional photographic studio. We don't know the Christian names of the children.
Here is a wonderful photo postcard of three well dressed young boys. Two boys are standing and a baby is seated in a wicker stroller. Mom has set out potted ferns on stands with lace curtain windows make for a wonderful picture of turn-of-the century America. The snap shot is undated, but we would guess was taken about 1905-10. The two older boys look to be about 4-5 years old. There are two brothers, perhaps photographed with a neighbor child. Written on the back in ink is: "Ray & Vernon Kathman, Gilbert Speckman, Aurora, Indiana". Thus we know their names abd where they lived. Both boys wear tunic suits. One wears a colored suit with a ruffled collar. The other wears a white suit. Both boys wear white caps, but it is a bit difficult to make out the types.
This cabinet card portrait was taken at the Rosch Portrait studio, 301 Main St. New Rochelle, New York. Handwritten on the back is, "About 1896-My father Frederick Jennings Keeling. My brother Fred and me (Arthur)." The boys wear Civil War uniforms, possibly for the 30th anniversary of the War. Or perhaps they are involved in election year hoopla. The father looks a bit too young to be a veteran and does not wear any badges, but he could have been a drummer boy. The boys wear natty Civil War uniforms and have drums. The Civil war was the climatic event in America during the 19th century. It finally resolved the slavery issue as well as the nature of the Union. Many Americans who served in the War were still alive and most looked back on the War as the major event of their lives.
We found a painted portrait of Geoffrey Keen painted in 1895. All we know about him is that his father was Percy Keen. Geoffrey was painted in full Highland garb. We assume that the Keens were Scottish, but do not know where they were from, certainly it was Britain. We have mnoted numerous images of boys wearing Highland garb in the late 19th century. We are stoll unsure, however, how common it was in the early 19th century. One interesting feature of the outfit was the large cap.
Erhard and Nora Keil had their portrait taken in 1910. We are not positive where their portrait was taken, but the photographer Carl Platz had studios in Moritzburg and Radeburg. I'm not sure where this is in Germany, but the folk costumes they wore suggest southern Germany--perhaps Bavaria. Hopefully our German readers will provid some inights here.
This portrait is of Carl Kellison who was 6 years old. The postcard portrait was taken by the Ogden Studio of Clarksburg, West Virginia. The portait is undated, but was probably taken about 1910. He wears a classic Russian blouse tunic suit with a dark belt. These tunic suits were commonly worn with ornamental belts. This one was quite broad. Carl has thick ringlet curls, By 1910 it was becoming kless common for school-age bots to wear ringlets. Age 6 was when bys begab schoo, but Carl may have turned 6 after September.
Two brothers Carcie Allen and Robert Lester Kemp had their portrait taken about 1898. They lived in Smith County, Tennessee. We know that Carcie Allen was born on May 29, 1894 and his older brother Robert Lester on October 17, 1891. So their portrait was probably taken about 1898. The boys both wear white blouses with large ruffled collars. Robert's blouce seems to be more ruffled thn tht of his younger brother. Both boys have bows, but rather more modest than mny that we have seen. Around the turn of the century, the floppy bows boys wore began to decline in size. The portrait must have been tken during the summer. Even though th boys wear fancy blouses, they are both barefoot.
We know almost nothing about Issac Kendrick, except that he was 10 years old. Here is a
1/9 plate amethyst ambrotype of Issac. We do not know when it was taken, but the late 1850s is the most likely. Nor do we know where Issac lived. Indiana is a possibility because it was sold by a dealer in the sate. Issac wears his hair over his. He wears a dark jacket. Longish hair was common at the time. Unfortunately his collar and neckwear is not very clear.
This cabinet photo shows two brothers and their dogs. The boys are Myle and Ray Kent. The photographer was J. B. Chouinard in Ludlow, Massachusetts. The portrait is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1890s. The boys are similarly dressed in kneepants suits, but the younger boys wears a Fauntleroy blouse and floppy bows. Both boys wear black long stockings. They are accompanied by two great hunting dogs.
Here's an adorable snapshot of a boy playing a cigar box violin on his front porch. The photo measures 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" and it is mounted on an ornate card measuring 5 1/2" x 6 1/2". The mount suggests that it was taken afer the turn of the 20th century. The boy's name is written on the back in what looks like his writing,--Allyn Kettering. Also wrtten is "120", but we do not know what that means. Allyn has long, but uncurled hair. He has what looks like an open jacket, knee pants. and long stockings. He looks about 5 years old. This item came from the estate of Anna and Benny Van, who ran a traveling "combined show" with trained animals, minstrels, comedy, musicians, daredevils, dancers, and "freaks".
We note matching CDV portraits of Alice and Charlie King. We are not sure that they are siblings, but they probably were. King is the name of the woman who redeemed and adopted them. Presumably they had the same slave birth mother, but we do not jnow this for certain. We do know that they were both slave boy redeemed by a Mrs. King of Lima, New York. She also adopted the children. Their portraits were taken at the same time which we can tell by the identical setting and outfits. The children wear matching dresses. The children seemed to have been redeemed about 1861, the year the Civil war broke out. We do not know when the CDV was taken, probanly in 1861 or 62. The later date was more likely as the CDV was just being introduced in the early 60s. They could not have been taken earlier as the CDV process was not introduced in the United States earlier. The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until late in 1862 and did not become effective until 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation, however, did not abolish the institution of slavery. We do not know where the children were from or just how Mrs. King selected them to redeem. Presumably she had to buy their freedom. This CDV was reproduced commercially to raise funds. The CDV process based on a negative made it ppossible to reproduce the images in large quantities. We do not know how the funds from the sale of the CDVs were used. Notice the great Civil War era drum in Charli's portrait. We suspecy that was a studio prop.
Here we have before and after portraits of George King from Buchannon, Michigan. He seems to have been called Georgie. He looks to be about 5 years old. In the before portrait he has ringlet curls done with a center part and white hairbows. He wears a crisp white Fauntleroy blouse with a ruffled collar and matching front and ciff ruffles. With the blouse he has a large coloful floppy bow. After his hair was cut short, Georgie got a new suit with sailor styled lapels. The portraits would have been taken on the same day or withon days of each other. Notice the same whicker chair in the background. The portraits are not dated, but we would guess that they were taken in the 1900s, probably about 1905.
Here is a CDV portrait of an American boy in a circus costume (figure 1). The portait is undated, but looks to have been taken in the late 19th century, probably the 1870s. The boy's nane was Basil Kite who was about 12 years old. He had been taken to the circus, was fascinated by the high wire acts, and aspired to be an aerialist himself. It isn't clear whether he actually became a performer in the circus or only wanted to perform, but the costume looks quite professional, so perhaps he actually realized his dream at an early age. Then again we see portraits of both children and adults in elaborate costumes during this period. Perhaps Basil was the son of a circus performer and got into the circus through his upbringing. It seems a bit unlikely that during the 1900s parents would allow their son to engage in such a risky activity as trapeze work unless they were themselves in the entertainment business.
Here is a cabinet portrait card portrait of a boy in front of a looking glass, a very early mahogany mirror. We note several of these looking glass portraits in the late-19th century, primarily with Fauntleroy suits. We think this was because mothers were so pround of their little darlings and the fancy outfits that they wanted to record every angel. And as a result, they have left with a view of the back of these suits and fancy collars. Otherwise the photographic record would only provide frontal views. The suit itself has a fancy embroidered design. We do not see these portraits made with other outfits. The boy was Frank Callaghan Knapp. The portrait was taken by Van Slaten of Binghamton, New York.
Griff Prather Knapp was 4 1/2 years old in June 1891 when he had a cabinent card portrait taken. He wears a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit with a cut away jacket abd blouse with large ruffled collar. His floppy bow is rther restrained for the time. It is a rather small, white bow. He has short hair. The suit has knee pants with ornamental buttons and long stockings and low-cut patent-leather shoes. The portrait was taken by Strauss in St. Louis (Missouri). His father was Thomas McCartan Knapp (1860-1902) and his mother Eloise Emmeline Prather (1862-1930). We know very little about Griff, but he apparently never married.
Here is a charming portrait of Jim and Ahlden Knight. Jim of course is a familiar version. His proper names must have been James Knight. They surely were brother and sister. They were from St. Louis, Missouri. The portrait is not dated, but looks to have been taken in the 190s, possibly the early-20s. The children look to be about 4-6 years old. Jim wears a white sailor suit. Ahlden wears a plain, colarless white dress.
This photograph is of two Finnish twins, Aino and Osmo Kolkki. We know that they were born on April 18, 1903. They look to be about 45 years old. The girl, Aino, is wearing a checkered dress and the boy a fashionable sailor suit. At the time, Finland was still part of the Russian Empire. Note Osmo's cropped hair. Portraits of varefoot children were fairly common in America, we see them less commony in Europe. This looks to be a snapshot rather than a studio portrait.
This portrait shows Elisa Kreckow and her big brother George. They look to be about 5-8 years old. The portrait had a CYKO postcard back. This could mean ant tme from 1904 to the 1920s. The way Eliza and George are dressed, we would guess it was taken in the 1910s. Eliza wears a gingham dress with a locket. George wears a doubled breased knickers suit wirh a pattern. Its a little difficult to make out his neckwear. Both children have black long stockings and high-top shoes.
We have found two portraits of Peter Kunkel taken at about the same time. The portraits are undated, but we would guess the early 1880s, in part because of the samall bow and dress style. Peter looks to be about 5-6 years old. He wears the same dress in both portrais suggesting that the portraits were taken at about the same time. The principal difference in the two portraits is that they are taken before and after his first haircut. His name is, which us written on the back of each photo. Peter looks to be at least 5-6 years old. The dress has a pleated skirt. Had the portraits not be labeed and group together, we would have assumed that the first portrait was little girl and the second like a boy in a fancy dress. The photos were taken in Baltimore, Maryland in the same studio.
This is a CDV photo of a “Rudy Lagai, Esq.”. I am not sure what kind of name hat is. It is not a common one. The portrait was taken by F. Dessaur, New York City. I think it was probably taken in 1962 or 63, partly because there is no Federal Revenue stamp. It could, however, been taken fter 1866. Rudy wears a light-colored two-piece suit. The slleves of the jacket are cut full with a cuff to gather them at the wrist. It is a collar buttoning jacket. As common at the time there is a waist band covering the bottom of the jacket ad top of the pants which are done as kee pnts. Rudi also wears white stockings.
Here we see a Montreal boy with stuffed dog. On the back of the portrait is written "Paul Laiselle 4 ver 5 ans". This tells us that Paul was almost 5 years old. He was photogaphed by H.E. Archambautt at "2204 Rue Notre-Dame Pres de la rue de la Montagne Montreal" I believe the hair stle would be called a choupette, but it is a little different than others I have seen. The portrait is undated, but was probably taken in the 1880s. We would guess the early 1980s. He wears a knee pants suit. The jacket looks to be a cut-away style, although this one does not open up like many we have seen. He alsp has a roubded lace collar with a modest bow.
This studio portait shows a little girl and her big brother. They are Julia and William Lankford. The portrait is undated. It is a cabinent card, a 4 x 5 3/4 inch photo on a 6 x 8 inch mount. The style of the mount suggests it was taken after the turn-of-the 20th century, probably the 1900s. Julia wears a standard white summer dress and hairbow. William hair is very carefully combed. He is dressed rather plainly. His shirt has a small rounded collar which he wears with knee pants. Heis barefoot for the portrait. The portrait was taken by the Eutsler Brothers studio in Danville, Virginia.
This CDV portrait shows Edward Larrer in a suit with a very long jacket. We suspect it ws Edwrd's first adult-styled suit. Edward looks about 13 years old. Note his rounded straw hat. I don't think that this was an adult style. There is a pencil notation indicating the portrait was taken in August 1861. The portrait was taken by J. Huggins, Norwich, United Kingdom.
This early CDV portrait shows two boys in Civil War-style military uniforms. One boy is posed with a rifle fitted with bayonet and the other with a sword. There is a bugle on his kepi. The uniforms have a star on the chest. The boys are Fred Latimer and Colby Jeffrey. The boys attended the Hill Stree School in
New London, Connecticut. It appers to be a privte school. Given this fact and the elaborate uniforms, we assume the boys came from a prominant family. The CDV was found in a collecion of Newcomb family matrial. Apparently the boys exchnged photographs. The uniforms suggest it was a military school, but they appear to be more of a patriotic flourish. The boys probably wore them for drill. These boys were assifned to Star Company. The photogrpher was Morgan & Bolles, New London.
Here is a cabinent card portrait of a boy identified as Phil Laurece. Presumably his proper name was Philip. Lawrence is probably a more common selling, but the card is clearly spelled Laurence. The cabinent card portrait was taken by Humphrey & Abbey in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Laurence looks about 11-12 years old and wears a collar-buttoning suit with a large plaid floppy bow. The image is not dated, but a large bow kike and this suggests the 1880s. Small collars wertr no commn in the 90s. The card had an unusual purple mount, I think with a belveled gild edge.
Georg Lauritzen was a particularly good student at the Morsum Village school school. We see many interesting photos. We see Georg as a little boy and as an older boy with his friends. He is one of the boys in the 1936 school portrait. One picture shows him in a suit with a Hitler Youth pin. There is no picture of him in his HJ uniform. We see his "Entlassungs-Zeugnis". This allowed him to go on to change to a secondary school in nearby Niebüll--a "Aufbauschule" for good pupils coming from rural village. Most of the children at the Morsum school did not go beyond the village primary school. Notice the entry, Gehört dem Deutschen Jungvolk an",i.e. (member of the German Jungvolk). This was followed by "guter Kamerad" which I thinks means a "good comrade". This was the juvenile or Cub division of the Hitler Youth. In NAZI Germany, membership in the HJ was important in obtaining a place in secondary schools and later university.
Clifford and Clarence Le Master lived in Chicago. We wee them here on a sidewalk. Unfortunately we know nothing more about the boys. The boys are wearing identical clothing, bow ties, long-sleeved shirts, and knee pants. We think going barefoot was more common in rural areas, but city boys also went barefoot. We also know nothing about their family situation.
This family snapshot shows Peter Lederer at about age 8-9 years of age. It was taken in Prague about 1938-39. This of course was not a very happy time for Czecholovakia. In fact the country was dismembered by the NAZIs. Peter's name, however, suggest he was German. Perhaps he was part of the country's German minority. Or perhaps his family came to Prague as part of the NAZI occupation. (The NAZIs occupied Prague during March 1939.) Peter is wearing a so-called Loden cloth jacket or overcoat for cold weather also popular in places like Bavaria. It is Peter's footwear that draws our attention. He also wears brown long stockings and somewhat unusual looking shoes with white tops--or are these really spats? He seems also to be wearing white short socks or anklets for keeping his feet warm. Interestingly, no hat unless he holds it behind his back (which is possible). It is probably chilly, but there is no snow on the ground.
Gilbert Brooks Lee had his his photograph taken when he was 5 year-old in 1918. He has a huge straw hat and is holding bowl of quince. We think he was from Portland, Oregon. There is a charming message on the back, "Its a wonderful likeness. He picked quinces so here they are. As he looks- he hits the nail on the head every time and drives my brin to madness with precocious questions..." Gilbert seems to be waring some kind of coveralls.
This is a portrait of Johan Philip van Leen (1905-1960). He was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which is probably where the photo was taken. Since the boy looks to be about eight, this would date the photo about 1913-14. He wears the traditional sailor suit with white middy blouse and dark knee pants and black long stockings. Notice also the sailor cap with its ribbon. He wears a scarf, probably red or blue, and a white dickie. Notice also the button over-the-ankle shoes. Johan died
in 1960 in Sydney, Australia.
This is a wonderful image from the past. It was taken in Scotland at C. Mitchell photographic studio in Glasgow. The two boys are both dressed in Highland kilt outfits. They have Glengary caps with eagle feathers, ather smnall Eton collars, bow ties, cut-away jackets, Kilts, sporrans, knee socks (I think Argyles), and sandals with mock buckles. This is ine of numerous images showing that boys in well-to-to families dressed up in kilts for formal occassions such as a portrait. What we are less sure about is how these boys dressed for more cassual activities, such as play, casual outings, family dinner, and school. Unfortunately we do not know their first names. As can be seen, the original board was trimmed at one point, probably it was in a frame at one time. We do know that they were 9 and 12 years old. On the back, the first names in the trimming process were pretty well trimmed away, but the family last name looks like "Lennox" to me written in old script and that would make sense as Lennox is a Scottish name. The portrait is not dated, but the style of the photo mount and Mum in her fashionable large hat and ankle-covering skirt suggests the 1910s to us. Note father's bowler hat and gloves. The mount measures 8"x 7", with the actual photo image measuring approx. 6"x 4.25".
Here is a CDV portrait of Erich Lille. CDVs were still a popular photographic portrait format in Germany even into the early 1900s. This portrait is undated, but was probably taken about 1900. The photographer was E. Scheithauer from Zwickau, Wilkau. This is a village in southern Saxony near the Czech border. At the time the portrait was taken it was the Austro-Hungarian border. We know Erich is 6-years old because thos is a first day of school portrait. He is wearing a sailor suit with bloomer knickers. It is a very plain sailor suit with an embridered dickey. He hs a matching sailor cap. He is already for school with his backpack and his large school cone.
We note a CDV portrait of a little boy with greased out hair that stands up in the middle, peaking at the crown. His hair, however, is short at the sides. Our approach is to just desribe the style until we can find an actual name. He is wearing a cut-away jacket and small white bow. The word Lincoln is written right below his photo on the front side. We assume that is his last name. He looks to be about 8-years old. The photographic studio was Vaughan Photo at 18 Third Street, Chico, California. We would guess that the portrait was taken in the late-1860s, although the early-70s is possibly. This is confirmed by the fact that Vaugh opened his studio in 1868.
Here we have portrait of the two Lindsley children sent as a Christmas card. On the back it reads "Merry Xmas Dec 25, 1910,
Nettie Estella Lindsley 19 yrs, Hewitt Gerald Lindsley 5 yrs". We at first thought this was Hewitt and his mother, but apparently he was photographed with his older sister. It was a studio cabinet card portrait, but in the early 20th century style which often did not name the studio. Nettie has an elaborate bee-hive typoe hairdo and wears a long, heavily embroidered dress. Hewwitt who is 5 years old wears a Russian blouse tunic suit. Unfortunately we do not know the color. It was a light color, perhaps a light blue or a yellow. Tunic suits were very popular garments for younger boys. Both pre-school boiys like Hewitt as well as younger primary school boys wore them.
We note a portrait of Harry and Maude Lodge. All we note about the children is their names. There is no indication of where the portrait was taken or when. The style of the mount, clothing, and hair styles suggest to us that it was taken about 1905-10. We would gues that the children are about 6-10 yeas of age. Maude wear a white dress with leavily balooned sleeves, white long stockings, and white shoes with bows. Shoes with bows werea popular fashion at the time. Her hair bow was either white or a very light pastel. Her older brother, Harry, wears a double-breasted knee pants suit with black long stockings and high-top shoes. The portrait sems to commeorate some special occassin as both children have corsages.
Gay Loinberger was the second son of Lelia Lionberger. She had seen a picture of Little Lord Fauntleroy, perhaps in a 1894 Munseys Magazine. She decided to do Gay's hair in ringlets and have his portrait taken. Gay also wore dresses, at least through age 6. I'm not positive precisely when he ws breached. He had an older brother, Fay, and a younger brother, John. A baby died. A daughter lived in in New York.
Walter Scott Lloyed had his portraitvtaken In January 1903. He looks to be about 5 years old. We are not sure where the portrait was taken, but it could be Texas as the portrait was found there. Walter clearly came from an affluent family, perhaps with literary pretentions given his name. The portarit is of interest because he wears one of the largest LittLe Lord Fauntleroy collars we have even seen.
This cabinent card portrait shows a little boy about 4-years old. Hus name was we belive K.D. Loore, but the "r" is a little indestinct. HK.D. wears a kilt suit with an Eton collar and small floppy bow. The collar-buttoning jacket has aelf-belt, a hint of Norfolk styling. This is not something we see in a lot of kilt suit jackets. The photographer was J.E. Beebe in Denver, Colorado. The portrait is undated, but we believe may have been taken in the early 1880s, in part because of the small floppy bow.
This portrait is of Lloyd P. Lott. He was age 6 years 2 months. The photo was taken in October 1889. We believe that he was from San Diego California. He wears what looks like a collar buttoning jacket, but it may be a jacket that did not button worn with a vest. It is difficult to tell. It is decorated with hesavy embroidery. He has a pin-on lace collar and checkered floppy bow. Both the bow and collar are large, but not enormous. Plain cuffs are visible at the waist. The suit is made with knee pants. And Lloyd wears long stockings and high-top shoes.
We have some interesting photographs of the Lowe brothers, Howard and William. We don't know anything about them except that they lived in Paterson, New Jersey. William was born January 15, 1884. He had a younger brother named Howard. I have not been able to identify the boys' parents. A portrait taken about 1901 shows the boys in identical sailor suits with dickeys, sailor caps, long black stockings, and hightop shoes. Other portraits show the boys as teen agers wearing suits.
We see Sidney Lowell about 1905. The portrait is not dated, but can be estimated fairly accrately froim the mount.All we know about him is that he was a chorister. Unfortunately wedo not know what choir in which he sang. It was clearly a church choir. almost all choirs at the time would have been church choirs.
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