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Photograph of George Lincoln Hawley (b.1863) of Farmington, Connecticut, wearing a printed wool dress (2016.8.1). The photograph is printed with the photography studio information "WAITE, Photographer./ 275 MAIN ST., HARTFORD, CONN." The boy stands against a backdrop and rests his left arm on an upholstered chair withlong fringe. The survival of the photograph and the garment being worn is a rarity. and helps to colors as they appear in black and white photography. The garment helps to concretely show the style and construction of fashions at this time, while the photograph shows how then as today, exacting fit for children's clothing wasn't always as important as getting more mileage out of earlier garments first worn by older siblings. The photographer Stephen H. Waite was born about 1832 in Massachusetts. As a young man he is said to have been the friend of Emerson, Whittier, and Theodore Parker. In 1862, he appears in the Hartford City Directory as an artist, but in 1863, he opened a photography studio at 271 Main Street in Hartford. He remained in business at that address until 1879. He was succeeded in his Hartford photography business by Charles Stuart. He died in Kansas City, Kansas in 1906, and had apparently been working as a photographer in that city for some time before his retirement and death.
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