Can anyone date this photograph please???

[HeatherLynne]

I wonder why the basket was placed just so in the photograph?  Seems to have been used to disguise or hide something as you'd expect the side or top view to be shown with flowers in it rather than the underside of the basket being so prominent.  [Edited to add:  Maybe it's just to distract attention from the extra cushion under her arm?]

Do you have the young lady's death certificate?  That might give some clues to her condition.

Heather

[chinakay]

Just changed my mind....the corners of the photo seem to be square so earlier, pre 1875 or so.

Unless the corners have been cropped off....always show us the entire photo as everything can be a dating clue. Especially, as in this case, the corners of an 1870s photo

[Coolbreeze]

No... I have no information on who they are... I have been trying to find clues as to who they could be... I have a "Hunch" But. no real facts... I have been looking around the family to see if anyone has a photo with the same looking face on it... The picture was found in a distant cousin's father's old family scrapbook... Although, he never put any details of whom they are on anywhere... He was the youngest son to a mother who was born illagitamate. The rest of the scrap book each family member is marked and the picture is placed in the scrapbook on the next page, next to her mother... Like I said her mother was born Illegitimate... She was born in 1848... I have been trying to get people to guess/date the year of the photo.. Some people have said the 1870's... If this is the case then it is not who I think it could be... In the picture she looks about teenage possibly younger to me, Although, I may well be wrong!!!... I know that she never lived with her mother and she lived with her grandparents in 1861 and just her grandfather as her grandmother died in 1863 aged 69... Her grandfather died in 1873 aged 84... If the photo was taken in the early 1860's the the dates would tally up!!!... Although, the family were from Suffolk and the picture mentions Bradford on the back - another thing that suggests to me that the people in the photo are not of whom I am thinking... This could be a tough one to crack... Will keep trying, you never know...

[Coolbreeze]

Do you think that the girl in the photo looks like this lady in anyway?

[Rachels]

Can't quite figure out if she's wearing a watch

[Rachels]

Richard
Have you looked on the censuses to see if any of the possible candidates had a disability ?

Are you able to show us the back of the photo in case there might be a clue someone can pick up on ?

Rachel

[chinakay]

Definitely not 1860s, early or otherwise....dress styles, hair, and pose are way wrong for the 1860s.

There's a similarity between the girl and the single portrait you posted, but it's not the same woman. Her ears, which do not change over a lifetime except for the length of the lobes, do not match the girl's. This portrait is mid-late 1890s by the way.

Cheers,
China

[Coolbreeze]

No... I do not have any Census infomation that lists a disabilty... I do not have the back of the original photo... I will contact my distant cousin and try and see if she can send me a scan of it... Thank You all for the above thoughts...

Richard

[chinakay]

Watch more likely pinned to the bodice.

Wristwatches date from about 1850 (I think) so it's a possibility...and they were mostly consigned to women until WWI. They became a practical reality to coordinate movements during that era.

Cheers,
China