Figure 1.-- We note Canadian boys with ringlet curls throughout the second-half of the 19th century. The McCord Museum in Montreal has a photograph taken of "Mrs. Taylor's Boys" It is from their Notman archive of photographs. Notman was an important Canadian photographer. The portrait was taken in Montreal, I think in 1882. It looks to be two brothers close in age dressed in matching Highland kilt outfits. Strangely one boy has ringlet curls and the other straight hair of about the same length. We are not sure why they are dressed alike and their hair done so differently.

We note Canadian boys wearing ringletv curls in the 1860s. L.S. Ross here wearing a plaid dress in 1865 is a good example (figure 1). We also notice Henry Wildgrass wearing ringlets in 1863 with a knee pants suit. We are unsure about the chronology. This may have been a popular style earlier, but we do not have earlier portraits in our archives to assess this. It is the appearance of the CDV about 1860 that brings large numbers of images to us for the first time. We note Canadian boys with ringlet curls throughout the second-half of the 19th century. The McCord Museum in Montreal has a photograph taken of "Mrs. Taylor's Boys" It is from their Notman archive of photographs. Notman was an important Canadian photographer. The portrait was taken in Montreal, I think in 1882. It looks to be two brothers close in age dressed in matching Highland kilt outfits. Strangely one boy has ringlet curls and the other straight hair of about the same length. We are not sure why they are dressed alike and their hair done so differently.

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