Two charming late 19th-century cabinet cards of young girls posed with their dolls, each captured in richly detailed studio interiors. One image, by Temple of Clinton, Iowa, features a long-haired girl in a sash-tied dress standing beside an ornate child-sized rocker, her porcelain doll dressed in voluminous white layers mirroring the sitter’s own finery. The photographer’s imprint appears in ornate script across the mount’s lower edge. On the reverse, a faint period inscription notes the child performed in a concert at Willow, Iowa.

The second cabinet card, by Auchmoody of Rondout, New York, presents a more somber image: a serious girl stands beside a staircase as her doll, nearly her size, rests on a carpeted step. The contrast between the girl's pale patterned dress and the shadowed architectural backdrop adds a strong sense of depth. Together, these two portraits speak to the cultural significance of dolls in childhood and domestic life at the turn of the century, each rendering both the subject and her cherished plaything with quiet dignity.