Figure 1.--A German reader has found an unidentified family. We believe it to be German, but we can not be positive. The mother and father in the center, surrounded by their five children, four boys and a girl. The children look to be about 10-18 years old. The boys all wear sack suits with curiously different bows. The younger boy wears a suit with matching trousers. Imgage cortesy of the BP Collection.

A German reader has found an unidentified family. We believe it to be German, but we can not be positive. The portrait was an ambrotype. Unlike American cased ambros, it was housed in a glass frame. The mother and father in the center, surrounded by their five children, four boys and a girl. The children look to be about 10-18 years old. The boys all wear sack suits with curiously different bows. The younger boy wears a suit with matching trousers. He has a rather large collar for the period which looks like an Eton collar. He wears it without a bow and his jacket does not have lapels. The portrait is undated, but looks to have been taken about 1860. It could easily have been taken anytime in the late 50s or early 60s. The girl wears a dress belted at the waist and with a full skirt. It is a light colored dress, but we have no idea about the color.

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