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This cabinet portrait was taken in 1907. The boy wears a double-breasted suit knee pants suit with long stockings. The suit was almost certainly purchased for the occassion. The popular style for boy's trousers were about to change in America, but in 1907 we still se mostly knee pants. This of course speaks to a certain level of affluence. He wears gloves for formality and holds a rosary. This is one of the earlier formal American First Communion portraits that we have found. We note very few in the 1890s. The boy is unidentified, but looks to be about 10-11 years old, a little older than the modern age for First Communion. We are not sure about age conventions at the time. We are guessing the boy was a First Generation Polish American. Many Poles settled in the industrisal cities of the Midwest of which Chicago was the largest. The portrait was taken by the Kosciuszo Photo Art Studio of Chicago. Notice the boy's center hair part.
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