Figure 1.-- The portait is of a 3 1/2 year boy named Dudley McDaniel Diggs. It was dated June 1890. Dudley holds a huge, dark flat top wide-brimmed hat. The flat top is a light collar. There is a dark wedge-area on the top of the hat where twin wide straemers are attached. He is wearing a light colored variated plaid-like kilt suit. It looks like a light-weight summer fabric. The kilt skirt is very long. The sleeves are cut just below the elbows. There is a connecting tab at the collar for the cut-away jacket.

This cabinet card studio portrait is little unusual as the print goes almost to the edges of the cabinet card except for the studio information at the bottom. The portait is of a 3 1/2 year boy named Dudley McDaniel Diggs. It was dated June 1890. Dudley holds a huge, dark flat top wide-brimmed hat. The flat top is a light collar. There is a dark wedge-area on the top of the hat where twin wide straemers are attached. He is wearing a light colored variated plaid-like kilt suit. It looks like a light-weight summer fabric. The kilt skirt is very long. The sleeves are cut just below the elbows. There is a connecting tab at the collar for the cut-away jacket. We see narrow vertical pieces on the jackets and sleeves. We see these devices on Highland kilt jackets, but usually on dark jackets. We are not sure about the proper term. The portrait was taken by the Rogers & Gray Studio in Lynchburg Virginia.

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