Figure 1.--We notice a portrait from a family album kept by Kenneth S. Chapman.. Kenneth couild be one of these boys or perhaps they are his sons or other family members. The family was from Woodhaven, New York on Long Island. The boys look to be about 3-8 years old. The youngest boy wears a Fauntleroy kilt suit. The older boys wears a knee pants suit.

We notice a portrait from a family album kept by Kenneth S. Chapman.. Kenneth couild be one of these boys or perhaps they are his sons or other family members. The family was from Woodhaven, New York on Long Island. The boys look to be about 3-8 years old. The youngest boy wears a Fauntleroy kilt suit. The blouse has especially large front frills and looks to be worn with a white floppy bow, but with all that white it is difficult to tell. There are matching wrist cuffs that extends to the elbows. The kilt has especilly wide box pleats. The older boy wears a single-breasted knee pants suit. Rather than a tie or bow he seems to be wearing a dickey, unusual with a sack suit like the boy is wearing. He looks rather like a priest. The portrait is undated, but looks to habe been taken in the 1890s. The photograph is not a mounted cabinet card as was standard at the time, but a loose photograph.

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