William C. Gorgas, ca. 1856, posing for a portrait. The style of dress was typical for the time. Children, until five or six years of age, often were clothed in a unisex fashion in Western societies until the early twentieth century.
William Crawford Gorgas as an Infant
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Courtesy of the University of Alabama W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library
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