Mellville is a very cute child who was photographed at the Caspar Studio in Lawrence, Massachusetts. According to writing on the reverse of the card, Mellville was two years and two months of age, at the time of the photograph in 1892. The child could not possibly look sweeter despite being ensconced in the “terrible two’s”. Mellville is a boy’s name whose popularity peaked around 1880 and then steadily declined until near extinction.
MELLVILLE: ANGELIC LOOKING CHILD IN THE TERRIBLE TWO’S IN LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS (1892)
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