This is a picture of Fred Horace Taft, a resident of Guilford, Vermont, in 1890. He was six years old when this photo was taken.
He is standing in a room, wearing a tam, with curly hair showing. He has a coat with a white collar, or he has a white-collared shirt with the collar out. The coat also has a toggle button. His shoes are black and appear to be high-tops. Fred is standing next to a table with a patterned cloth on it. The carpet he is standing on is decorated with a diamond pattern.
Fred was the son of Horace and Mary M Taft. He had a sister named Aurelia. Fred Taft died in 1926.
The Guilford Historical Society