Figure 1.--Here are two German children, identified as Wolf and Nella E., meaning siblings. The boy wears a patterned tunic with dark long pants. The pattern seems to be a plaid with diagonl white stripes. There is a whire collar and wrist cuffs. His slighly older sister has a kind of cross checked pattern, very fult dress and white long stockings. Notice fore-arm covering. I'm not sure wht the proper name is. The studio was E. Raps in Coeln. We are not sure where that was, perhaps a town near Berlin.

The German boys we have noted eraring tunics in the 1860s seem to range from about 5-10 years of age, perhaps slightly older. Our primary source is the photographic record. Our archive of dated ages is not yet large enough to form any definitive conclusions, although we can often identify 1860s portraits. And we think the 5-10 year asessmnt does cover the bulk of the boys wearing tunics. As a result the tunic became a common school garment. Most boys began going to school about the same time they began wearing tunics, about 6 years of age. The image here suggests the age conventions, the boys on the previous page look to be about 8-9 and 11 years of age. We hope to be able to deal with this more conclusively as HBC expands. We do not find many pre-school German boys wearing tunics. Nor have we found images of teeenagers wearing tunics. Of course many portraits do not infdicate the age of the individual subjects, but ages can be estimted to a reasonale degree of accuracy. It is finding dated images that is importat here.