Figure 1.--This cabinet card is a portrait of three brothers. The name Paul Van Burgh is written on the back, although the writing is destinct. The boys look to be about 2-9 years old. They are a good example of how boys of different ages were dressed at the time. we are not sure which of the boys is Paul.

This cabinet card is a portrait of three brothers. The name Paul Van Burgh is written on the back, although the writing is destinct. The boys look to be about 2-9 years old. They are a good example of how boys of different ages were dressed at the time. we are not sure which of the boys is Paul. The youngest boy is about 2 years old and wears a white dress and what looks like a large white lace collar. He has short hair, probably because he does not have enough hair to curl yet. The middle boy looks to be about 4-5 years old and has ringlet curls. He wears a kilt suit. Their older brother wears a suit with sone Norfolk styling. The two older boys gave prominny white collsrs worn with a small floppy bow. The collars and bows are larger than what we see in the 1870s, but smaller than the large collsrs we begin to see in the mid- and late-80s. The portrait looks to have been taken in the early-1880s, both because of the clothing and the mount done in a dark brown witj gold lettering. All we know for sure, however, is thst the studio was Stewart and Yoost in Oneida, New York. Given how the boys were dressed we would guess yhey cane from an affluent family with a fashion concious mother.

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