Figure 1.-- These unidentified children were from Lincoln, Nebraska. The cabinent card portrait is undated, but was probably taken in the 1890s. Notice the boy with ringlets and his big sisters with straight long hair. What we are not sure about is wheter mother has dome ringlets as a boy's style or a style for the younger children. What we are not sure about is weher the youngest child is a boy or girl.

We note sisters wearing a variety of other styles when their brothers wore ringlets. We note sisters with both long and short hair. Some girls had especially long hair while others short styles and many lengths in betweem. We note both stright and curled hair, but curls not done it ringlets. Some times the different styles contrast sharply. In other cases there are similarities. Some aspects of the hair styles could be done similarly such as bangs and center hair parts. These are both styling elements that could be used with ringlet curls. They could be use to stress the different in hair styles pr to create similarities at the mother's discression.

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