Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrait is a large size. The photograph measured approximately 6" x 4". The mount is 9.75" x 8". The boys are a mixed-age group, perhaos 8-10 years of age. There is an older boy with them whoi may be about 14 years old. We re not sure just what to make of the group. Given thy way they are dresses, all with smart suits including one boy wearing a a sailor suit, we would guess this is a private school group. We thought it might be a small prep school, but that would not explain the older boy. And the shrouded background provides no clues. The best idea we can think of is that it was a junior house at a college, meaning a private school wih both primary and secondary sections. We are not sold on this, perhsaps readers might have some thoughts. The only aspect we are sure aboiut is that the studio was M. Higgens in Newcastele-on-Tyne.

This cabinet card portrait is a large size. The photograph measured approximately 6" x 4". The mount is 9.75" x 8". The boys are a mixed-age group, perhaos 8-10 years of age. There is an older boy with them whoi may be about 14 years old. We re not sure just what to make of the group. Given thy way they are dresses, all with smart suits including one boy wearing a a sailor suit, we would guess this is a private school group. We thought it might be a small prep school, but that would not explain the older boy. And the shrouded background provides no clues. The best idea we can think of is that it was a junior house at a college, meaning a private school wih both primary and secondary sections. We are not sold on this, perhsaps readers might have some thoughts. The only aspect we are sure aboiut is that the studio was M. Higgens in Newcastele-on-Tyne. The style of the mounts suggess to us that it was taken in the very early 1900s, but our ability to date British mounts is still at a fairly basic stage so we are not real sure. The dealersuggested the 1890s. It looks to be n albumen prunt which means thsat it would not be mater thn the early-1900s.

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