Figure 1.--This is Fred A. Chew, we think in the early-1870s. Fred wears a collar buttoning jacket knee pants suit. This is easy to tell because it was before the advent of large fancy collars and floppy bows, so all of the jacket collar can be seen. This helps to date the portrait. Notice the self belt and element in the Norfolk style that was becoming important in the 70s. There is, however, only one vertical vent. The knee pants are long, ending well below the knee--standard for knee pants at the time. We also see striped long stockings, a popular style in the 1870s. The studio is D.N. Bouce, Tuscola, Illinois.

Here we see an undated cabinet card portrait of Fred A. Chew, identified on the back. The cabinet vard has no bottom band with the studio informatiin, suggesting an early card. Fred wears a collar buttoning jacket knee pants suit. This is easy to tell because it was before the advent of large fancy collars and floppy bows, so all of the jacket collar can be seen. This helps to date the portrait to the 1870s. Other factors sggest the earl-70s. He has a large rounded-crown hat. This was a popular hat style at the time, but uually not quite this large. Fred has a rather modern looking short hair cut. There are no lapels with collar-buttioning jackets and only a single collumn of buttons. Notice the self belt and element in the Norfolk style that was becoming important in the 70s. There is, however, only one vertical vent. The knee pants are long, ending well below the knee--standard for knee pants at the time. We also see striped long stockings, a popular style in the 1870s. We call them striped, but they are more accurately descrbed as banded. Fred wears high-top button shoes, also fairly standard at the time.

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