Help Identifying the Time Period of This Pic Based on Civilian Clothing

[a34]

Hey Guys,

Attached is a pic of my GGG Grandfather who passed away at Vicksburg. He is pictured beside his wife with young son on his lap. Her two sisters are behind her. Looking at the list of Children he had, and guessing the age of the child on his lap, I'm thinking this pic is circa 1858. Does that look like the right time period to you guys that do civilian impressions? Mainly, I'm trying to verify this is a pre war pic.

Thanks!!

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Looking for help identifying the time period of this pic based on Civilian clothing.

Hallo!

IMHO...

The narrow waist, tight forearms, and "mutton chop' style upper sleeve puts the image roughly 1890-1900.

Curt

[a34]

Re: Looking for help identifying the time period of this pic based on Civilian clothing.

Hallo!

IMHO...

The narrow waist, tight forearms, and "mutton chop' style upper sleeve puts the image roughly 1890-1900.

Curt

Thanks Curt. I was thinking the same thing, but I'm not an expert on that era clothing.

[MuleyGil]

Re: Looking for help identifying the time period of this pic based on Civilian clothing.

Could that be another ancestor of yours?

[a34]

Re: Looking for help identifying the time period of this pic based on Civilian clothing.

Could that be another ancestor of yours?

It's a family photo, so I'm thinking it is, just mis-identified. When I look at the gentleman in the pic he has my Granddad's eyes. So, I'm thinking he's some kind of family.

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Looking for help identifying the time period of this pic based on Civilian clothing.

Hallo!

Do you have the identities for the five as to the possible age and what their ages would be in relationship to each other at a time the image may have been taken?

I would suspect the seated couple are the adult parents with two daughters behind. And possibly the baby is theirs or a grandchild of one or the other daughters but a father would be missing (died, killed, etc.)

Ages can be deceiving. My grandfather was the last of 10 children and the seventh and last son. His mom was 41 when he was born.

We have a box of old family images going back to the CW era by the fashions. But, as is the curse of so many paper images and now cyber images they were not labelled or named because the original owners/family members KNEW who they were.

Curt