Figure 1.-- Here is a double union case with portraits of two children. They surely are brother and sister, both of whom appear to be between 3-5 years of age. We sometimes see CDV and cabinent cards made before and after a boy was breeched. In the case of Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes, this was less common, in part because of the cost. In this case since the girl looks older than the boy, they surely are brother and sister. Neither photograph is externally identified. The girl's photograph, which I believe to be an ambrotype, has light traces of tinting on her cheeks and gilding of her necklace. The young lady also apparently has a ring on her right finger as well. The nlond boy's cheeks are also lightly tinted and he's clearly wearing a smart, quasi-military outfit, consisting of a dark (probably blue or black) trimmed jacket and checked trousers.

Here is a double union case with portraits of two children. They surely are brother and sister, both of whom appear to be between 3-5 years of age. We sometimes see CDV and cabinent cards made before and after a boy was breeched. In the case of Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes, this was less common, in part because of the cost. In this case since the girl looks older than the boy, they surely are brother and sister. Neither photograph is externally identified. The girl's photograph, which I believe to be an ambrotype, has light traces of tinting on her cheeks and gilding of her necklace. The young lady also apparently has a ring on her right finger as well. The nlond boy's cheeks are also lightly tinted and he's clearly wearing a smart, quasi-military outfit, consisting of a dark (probably blue or black) trimmed jacket and checked trousers. The odds are that they were both raised in comfortable surroundings. Using this analysis, I would surmise these images date to anout 1855-1865. It is not possible to be more specific in images like these that are not dated. Unfortunately there is no provenance for these images other than they were acquired in Lafayette, Indiana. They apparently had connections with a family in Tennessee. They are fine, and haunting, images of two young children, probably brother and sister.

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