Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrait shows a boy named Jack Shearer. His proper name is presumably John. He looks to be about 7 years old. He wears a peaked cap that does not precisely match the knee pants suit. The knee pants are cut at knee length which was common by the 1890s. Jack is holding gloves. We can't tell much about the jacket. He has a large Eton collar which he wears with a floppy bow. He wears black long stockings rather than ones that match the suit. His outfit is completed with hightop button shoes. The portrait was taken February 19, 1893. The studio is Holden in Worcester, Massachusetts. Worcester west of Boston was an important industrial manufactiring center.
Jack Shearer (United States, 1893)
This cabinet card portrait shows a boy named Jack Shearer. His proper name is presumably John. He looks to be about 7 years old. He wears a peaked cap that does not precisely match the knee pants suit. The knee pants are cut at knee length which was common by the 1890s. Jack is holding gloves. We can't tell much about the jacket. He has a large Eton collar which he wears with a floppy bow. He wears black long stockings rather than ones that match the suit. His outfit is completed with hightop button shoes. The portrait was taken February 19, 1893. The studio is Holden in Worcester, Massachusetts. Worcester west of Boston was an important industrial manufactiring center.
