The child is wearing a white eyelet dress, black stockings, and black side-button boots. It is difficult to determine the gender of the child since both boys and girls dressed alike in short dresses until they were approximately five years old at…
The photograph was taken at the studio of H. A. Lesure, 207 Main Street, Danbury, Connecticut. The little boy wears a short two-piece dress, which indicates that he is preschool age. For most of the nineteenth century, boys under five years of age…
Bride, 1890sThe bride, identifiable by her white wedding dress and veil, depicts several features of 1890s fashion. Her waist is very small indicating that she is wearing a tight corset underneath her gown. The gathered bodice narrows to a point at…
This photograph was taken in the studio of I. Forman of Fairmount, West Virginia. Forman began his photography business in 1864 after doing farm work and millwork. The boy pictured has already started wearing breeches, or short trousers, a rite of…
This photograph is from the studio of Irving Saunders, located in Alfred Centre and Friendship, New York. Saunders operated his studios beginning in the 1860s into the 1890s.The young man in the photograph is wearing a white tie, stand up collar with…
The subject is a well-nourished, alert infant, propped up high on a stuffed and tufted armchair draped with decorative rugs or blankets (fig. 1). Given the infant’s bright, focused expression and truncal control, she appears to be between six and…
A young woman is standing with her hand placed on a chair in a photography studio. Standing was a common pose for women at this time because it best displayed the wide skirts. This photograph was taken at J.S. Howard’s studio in New Bedford,…
This photograph illustrates the third phase of the bustle silhouette, which featured a high bustle. It became fashionable in 1883. The young woman is standing with her hand resting on a "rock" in the photographer’s studio; this pose clearly shows her…
The young boy seated on a pillow in this photograph is dressed in a tunic that buttons down his right side, with the Eton-style collar and cuffs of his shirt showing from beneath the garment. The wide leather belt combined with this side closure…
This photograph was taken by John Spence, who operated a studio on Bridge Street in Musselburgh, Scotland, which is near Edinburgh, from 1880 to 1914. The two children pictured are boys, and they illustrate the custom of dressing small boys in…