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Identifying the gender of children in photographs from the mid-1800s can be challenging since both girls and boys wore dresses until they were toilet trained. It wasn't until after that point that boys began wearing pants while girls continued to wear dresses. A different, more reliable method for identifying the gender of children from this era is the way in which their hair is parted. In general, girls wore their hair parted in the middle, while boys wore their hair parted to the side. Therefore, the child in this ambrotype is a girl.