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This cabinet card shows Freddie Miller Shelton of Scranton Pennsylvania. His proper name was prsumably Fred or Fderick. The portrit is undated, but the pinked card mount suggested that it would have been taken about 1890. These are the pinked (srrated) cards with smooth corners. We noted these cards from about 1888-95. The lace cuffs and fringed unpolstry suggests to us that the period 1888-90 is more likely thAn the 1890-95 period. The Fauntleroy styling also help to date the image as these outfit appeared in large numbers after Mrs. Burnett published her story (1885). Freddie was 5 1/2 years old. Freddie wears a Fauntlweroy-styled kilt suit. It looks like a velt suit with a cut-away jacket. The kilt-skirt has a front pannel with two columns of buttons, but is not pleated. The button trim was often coordinated with the jacket, but in this case Freddie has a cut-away jacket. We think that velvet kilt-skirts were not commonly pleated. It is difficult to make out any details of his blouse, but we do note lace wrist cuffs. Note that the lace cuff seems to be a pin-on adorn ment as we can see a plain blouse sleeve at the wrist that is not part of the decorative lace wrist cuff. Feddie also seems to be wearing a white floppy bow.
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