Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait shows Clarence Allen. The dealer describes him as Clarence E. Allen. The inscription on the back, however, is just Clarence Allen. He looks to be about 5 years old. Clarence is dressed in a classic Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. He wears a Fauntleroy cut-away jacket suit and as was standard includes knee pants. It is done in a suiting fabric, not velvet. The outfit includes a fancy blouse without elaborate wrist cuffs. This is typical of the declinjng Fauntleroy styles after the turn-of-the 20th century. He does have a very large floppy bow. Most notable is his ringlet curls hair style which includes a huge top roll. The clothes, mount style, and white whicker furniture all date the portrait to about 1900. The studio was McLeod in Standish, Michigan.

This cabinet card portrait shows Clarence Allen. The dealer describes him as Clarence E. Allen. The inscription on the back, however, is just Clarence Allen. He looks to be about 5 years old. Clarence is dressed in a classic Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. He wears a Fauntleroy cut-away jacket suit and as was standard includes knee pants. It is done in a suiting fabric, not velvet. The outfit includes a fancy blouse without elaborate wrist cuffs. This is typical of the declinjng Fauntleroy styles after the turn-of-the 20th century. He does have a very large floppy bow. Most notable is his ringlet curls hair style which includes a huge top roll. The clothes, mount style, and white whicker furniture all date the portrait to about 1900. The studio was McLeod in Standish, Michigan.

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