Cabinet Card, circa 1880 – 1890s.

Price:  $10.00         Size:  about 6 and 1/4 x 4 and 1/8″

Cabinet Card photo of beautiful little girl, age five, posed for the camera and dressed for the outdoors, in overcoat, fur hat, fur scarf, and carrying a fur muff. There is no photographer information on either the front or the back, but we are lucky to have the child’s name written at the bottom of the card. The first name is hard to decipher, possibly Iolo (as in capital I not L) or Jolo (both names do come up for girls). Her middle initial is A, and the last name appears to be Venen. Though Vinin is a possibility there are no dots over what would be the i’s, as opposed to the i in the very first word which is dotted. This word looks like it would be Miss. If it is indeed Miss, then the writer used the old-fashioned (well, to us) practice of the Ss which is often mistaken for an fs. In any case this is a stunning photograph of a gorgeous girl.