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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 347456, member: 33&quot;]Boots had shops all over the UK, and there is some historical information about them on the National Portrait Gallery website, about halfway down this page:</p><p><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/b.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/b.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/b.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Seems that their earliest recorded framing ads were from about 1894. I&#039;d say this photo is from the mid to late 1890s, mainly based on the very voluminous sleeves on the dress of one of the women. Those were popular in the mid-1890s. By the late 1890s things were changing, I think, more like what the woman at the left is wearing.</p><p><br /></p><p>You didn&#039;t mention the size of the photo, but sizes larger than standard cabinet cards became much more common in the late 1890s and later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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