Edwin Scanlan Ehney

Description:

Daguerreotype of young Edwin S. Ehney. He has been dressed in a plaid dress with white ankle-length pantaloons (or pantalettes). The photographer has placed him standing on a chair next to a covered table and closed book. The image is surrounded in a gold metal border and mounted in a wooden box on stamped leather. Cover is missing.

From the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century, young boys were outfitted in dresses or other skirted garments, sometimes with pantaloons, until they were between 2 to 8 years old.

Gift of Mrs. Alice Lee Ehney.

• Title: Edwin Scanlan Ehney
• Photographer: Tyler & Co.
• Date: c. 1855

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Cased Photographs
• Object Id: MK 9489

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