From the Bendigo Advertiser, 1 September 1894

A London photographer, who is wonder fully successful in photographingchildren, says his favorite young sitters are the young men and maidens who have earned for themselves the name of 'pickles.' When he watches a small man or woman climb up his studio steps with boisterous tread and loud voiced information about all and sundry things he feels that success is near. The more so if the child has not been dressed up in its best and stiffest and most uncomfortable clothes, and when no attempt has been made at beautifying the poor sitter by curling his hair, or by smoothing and arranging it out of all naturalness. Special arrangements of this kind are a horror in the eyes of the artist-photographer, whose one desire is that his sitter should be perfectly at ease. [Bendigo Advertiser, 1 September 1894, p6]