Figure 1.--This color tinted CDV portrait is a closeup pose of an unidentified American child with ringlet curls. The clothes that we can see suggest that the child is a boy. He ooks to be about 4-years old. The blue bow is not gender indictor. The pink/blue gender indicators were not yet establihed. It looks like an 1860s portrait. The portrait was taken in a New York studio.

We have only limited country information on tinting, but have begun to build some country information. Much of the information is on Ameriica because the photographic record is so extensive, buut we have some European informtion. Most of our archive is American as is the case for HBC as a whole. We notice an unidentified American boy wearing a blue tunic in a 1850s Daguerreotype. We note another unidentified Americn boy wearing a rather bright blue suit in the 1870s, although we are unsure about the accuracy of the depiction. There are, however, several color tinted photographs archived on HBC. Some of the best examples we have noted are German. We note German costumes, presumably children in a family. We also note a German mother and daughter. Another example is a German brother and sister (about 1885). And we see a beautifully done portrait of a German family (1890s). Another good example is an 19th century American family.

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