Figure 1.-- This CDV portrait is not a very good image, but we tend to use dated and named images, even wshn the image qulity is poor. CDVs continue to be widely used in England and the major European countries long after they declined in America. The portrait shows a family of the four Gibson children: George, Mary, Fred, and Ann. They look to be about 3-12 years old. The girls wear decoratd dresses. The boys wear identical cut-away jacket suits with vests and knickers long with white stockings. The suits are interesting because of the heavily emnbroidred decorations. This was an popular style in th 1860s and 70s.

This CDV portrait is not a very good image, but we tend to use dated and named images, even wshn the image qulity is poor. CDVs continue to be widely used in England and the major European countries long after they declined in America. The portrait shows a family of the four Gibson children: George, Mary, Fred, and Ann. They look to be about 3-12 years old. The girls wear decoratd dresses. The boys wear identical cut-away jacket suits with vests and knickers long with white stockings. The suits are interesting because of the heavily emnbroidred decorations. This was an popular style in th 1860s and 70s. We note embroidered Fautleroy uits in the 1880s and 90s, but they wre almost always dark embroidery on dark suits and don't show up in the photographic record. Scarborough The Gibson Children 1871 Geo, Mary, Fred, and Ann. The studio was Inskip in Scarborough.

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