English Dresses: Unidentified Children--Image 5 Todmorden
Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows an unidentified child. CDVs for some reason continued to be important in England long after they has largely disappeared in America. There is a wide scalloped caollar with neclace-like embriodery. There is a sash like waisllinr and flounced -- very popular in the 19th cennuty. The portrait is undated, but looks rathe like the early-1880s to us, but we are not sure. The 1870s is also possible. We thought the child might be a boy because of how short his hair is cut, even around the ears.
This CDV portrait shows an unidentified child. CDVs for some reason continued to be important in England long after they has largely disappeared in America. There is a wide scalloped caollar with neclace-like embriodery. There is a sash like waisllinr and flounced -- very popular in the 19th cennuty. The portrait is undated, but looks rathe like the early-1880s to us, but we are not sure. The 1870s is also possible. We thought the child might be a boy because of how short his hair is cut, even around the ears. It was not uncommon for girls to have short hair, but usually not this short. The child has bangs but the hair at the crown seems unusual. The child ceratinly looks like a boy. The flower basket, hwever, is a girlish prop so we think it is more likely that the child is a girl. This is tentative assessment, but we have mot yet noted a child identified as a boy with a flower basket. We are fairlyn sure about this with Ameruicvan boys. Our English archive, however, is more limited so we are not yet sure about this. Of course there is not real way of telling. Th child lso has darl long stockings and high-top button shoes. The photographer is J. Brooks in Todmorden. This is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, north-east of Manchester.
