Figure 1.--This is CDV portrait shows a a boy holding a hat. Notice that it is slightly conical with a nearly flat-top hat. We do not know just what to call this hat. It seems somewhere between a boater and a rounded-crown hat. It seems to be a hat an adult could wear. We can't make out his neckwear. He has a suit with a long-cut jacket and long pants.

This is CDV portrait shows a a boy holding a hat. Notice that it is slightly conical with a nearly flat-top hat. We do not know just what to call this hat. It seems somewhere between a boater and a rounded-crown hat. It seems to be a hat an adult could wear. We can't make out his neckwear. He has a suit with a long-cut jacket and long pants. Iy has a checked pattern. Notice how he uses only one of the buttons to close his jacket. This seems influenced by the cut-away jacket he probably wore as a younger boy. He does not seem to have a belt or if he does it is very narrow. The boy is identified on the back as, Clifton Harrison, age 12. The portrait was was taken by Tousley in Keesville, New York. There is an orange 2 cent bankcheck tax stamp on the back ink cancelled with the date July 26, 1866. There were no special stamps for photographs so whatever revenue stamps available were used. The portrait is a classic American 1860s CDV portrait. Not how different it is from Dags and Ambros where the suject was usually seated and the background dark. And the spatial impression is that of an almost empty room.

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