To be a child in the nation’s capital during the Gilded Age was to grow up amid ceremony, ambition, politics, and extraordinary change. In these portraits, C. M. Bell preserved something quieter, the faces of children whose lives unfolded alongside the making of modern Washington.
The Bliss Children
Breen Children
Captain Brown's Daughters
W.B Frironed Children
Gervey Children
H.L. Page Children
H.L. Page Children
Oberteuffer Children
Mrs. H.T. Oberteuffer Children
Mrs. S. Schloss Children
C.W. Winslow Children
Mrs. L.D Winston Children
Osgood Children
Galt children
Stevens Boys
Portner Twins
Brendt Girls
Russell Cobb Sons
Mrs. V. Laverine Children
L. Depue Children
Hamilton
J.N. Gillett
Duke
Francis Brett