Figure 1.--Here we have what looks like a happy Hastings family. The CDV portrait is undated,but looks like the 1860s to us. We are not sure about the social standing. They look be living in comfotable circumsances, but not well-to-do. The father in particular does not look to be fashionably dressed. The cut-away jacket suit I do not think would have been worn by someone with a contemporary fashion sense. This is not a fashion we have note being worn by American men at the time. But perhaps readers will know more about this. They are a very young family. The children look to be about 1-5 years old. Notice that the boy wears a long pant suit even though he looks only about 5 years old. he wears a standard cut-away jacket with long pants. This is a good example as to how long pants were still standard boys wear in the 1860s. Shortened-length pants existed at the time for boys his age, but were most common among fashioable well-to-do families. The studio was F.S. Mann in Hastings.

Here we have what looks like a happy Hastings family. The CDV portrait is undated,but looks like the 1860s to us. We are not sure about the social standing. They look be living in comfotable circumsances, but not well-to-do. The father in particular does not look to be fashionably dressed. The cut-away jacket suit I do not think would have been worn by someone with a contemporary fashion sense. This is not a fashion we have note being worn by American men at the time. But perhaps readers will know more about this. They are a very young family. The children look to be about 1-5 years old. Notice that the boy wears a long pant suit even though he looks only about 5 years old. he wears a standard cut-away jacket with long pants. This is a good example as to how long pants were still standard boys wear in the 1860s. Shortened-length pants existed at the time for boys his age, but were most common among fashioable well-to-do families. The studio was F.S. Mann in Hastings.

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