This large cabinet card gets the award for best preserved antique photo – it is every collector's dream. It spent most of its life framed as evidenced by its clean condition and also by the chemical image burn-through on the back of the mount, which could only occur if enclosed.
It also takes the prize for best child's pose - what panache! He is Momma's little darling and accepts it without question.
It is hard to determine if this is a less froufrou Little Lord Fauntleroy style (1885) or a modified Buster Brown (1905) style, it doesn't quite mimic either character, the former from a book and the latter from a comic strip.
The background tells us that the Butler studio of Brooklyn was an upscale establishment.
