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This cabinet portrait shows a boy posed on an old-fashioned tricycle or velocipede. The trike would have been a studio prop. The photographer, O. B. Frisbie in Ottawa, Illinois. The boy is identified on the back as "Johnny Wheeler 6 years old". The portrait is undated, but looks to have been taken in the 1880s. The Fauntleroy-style collar and cuffs suggest the late-80s. We cannot make out much detail of the knee pants suit, but it seems to have a sailor-style back flap. He also wears a stylish broad-brimmed straw hat.
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