Figure 1.-- Thus cabinet card portrait is undated, but looks like the 1880s to us. The boy is unidentified, he look to be about 6 years of age. He has longish hair down to his ears. This was not uncommon in the 1870s, but unusual for school age boys by the 1880s. We wonder if he had recently had rungklet curls. The studio was Collier in Riverside, California.

We see some boys with longer hair. This mean in the 1880s, hair down to, but not necessarily over the ears. The longer hair was styled in many different ways. Here we think social class was involoved. They were mostly younger boys from well to do families. Except for ringlet curls, we do not see very many longer hair styles in America, at least for older school-age boys. We ee very few boys at school with the longish cuts. Any by the 1880s we begin to school portraits that can be used to assess hair and fashion styles. Boys with longish hair at school are virtually non existent.

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