Figure 1.-- These two brothers from a Daguerreotype portrait are unidentified. They look to be about 5-11 years of age. We would guess the portrait was taken about 1850, but we cannot yet date Dags with any precession. Perhaps readers can help us here. The portrait could have been taken any time in the 1840s-60s. The boys wear a variety of interesting garments. The younger boy wears a straw hat which looks identical to the one woirn by modern Amish boys. He looks to be wearing aunic with an open front. He wears a belt over his tunic which has nothing to do with holding up his trousers. His older brother wears a military style collar buttoning jacket. Neither boys have shirts with collars.

These two brothers from a Daguerreotype portrait are unidentified. They look to be about 5-11 years of age. We would guess the portrait was taken about 1850, but we cannot yet date Dags with any precession. Perhaps readers can help us here. The portrait could have been taken any time in the 1840s-60s. The boys wear a variety of interesting garments. The younger boy wears a straw hat which looks identical to the one worn by modern Amish boys. He looks to be wearing aunic with an open front. He wears a belt over his tunic which has nothing to do with holding up his trousers. His older brother wears a military style collar buttoning jacket. Beither boys have shirts with collars. Notice the similar hair cuts down to their ears. The hair looks to be combed, but the boys do not seem to have had a hair cut for some time.

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