[Louise and Willie Tarboux]

Reverend John W. Tarboux worked in Brazil as a Methodist missionary and high school principal for 37 years. His wife Susan was James Kirkland’s sister. Their son Willie, aged one, wears polka dots. His older sister wears a fancy bonnet. Juiz de Fora, a town in the Paraibuna Valley, 50 miles north of Rio in Minas Gerais, was a state where mining companies helped the economy expand. Brand’s studio opened December 31, 1889. Many Brazilian studios were run by Americans or Europeans.