An adorable wide-eyed baby poses for a cabinet card portrait at the photographic studio of Stanley, in Lyons, New York. The child is wearing a gown and a very interesting hair style which looks like a predecessor to the modern day mohawk. She is wearing a pin on her collar. The pin has lettering that may spell her name. The letters are unclear but it appears to say “Darlene”. Perhaps a visitor to this site can decipher the word on the pin and leave a comment with the correct information.
CUTE BABY POSES FOR PORTRAIT IN LYONS, NEW YORK (IS THAT A MOHAWK?)
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THE CABINET CARD GALLERY 
Have I already posted on roaching? I forget the source now, but I recently read somewhere that that style of roll on top of the head was called “roached”, at least in the 1840s.
If you search pre-1860 “hair + roach*” in google books, you’ll come upon a quote that seems to imply that roaching was something else- perhaps shaving the head. I’m still researching this.
In any case, this hairstyle was a male style (for boys as well as adult men) when it first appeared in the 1840s, but I have seen it on girls by the late 19th c. I think it was one of your Cabinet Cards, in fact, that was ID’d.
This looks more like a little boy to me?