Figure 1.--This unidentified Stargrad family was photographed at the Huntze studio in 1891). The portrait is a cabinent card, although CDVs were still common in Germany. After Stargrad is written "i/P". That mean in Pomerania. Apparentlt there was another Stargrand in another area of Germany. Three children are pictured with their mother, The boy wears a suit with very highcut lapels. His collar is large, but folded under the lapels. It is not clear what kind of neckwear he is wearing. His kneepants are cut well below the knees. He wears dark long stockings as do his sisters. The children look to be about 7-13 years old.

Younger German boys still wore dresses in the 1890s. We still boys wearing belted tunics, but the cut-away jackets were no longer very common. The sailor suit had become an important style in Germany by the 1890s. Boys more commonly wore kneepants. Younger boys commonly wore shrt-cropped hair. Knee pants became standard for boys in the 1890s, but some were cut well below the knees. Girls dresses had tight neck collars. Some dresses were sleeveless. Long stockings were very commonly worn by both boys and girls. Girls might wear white stockings.

Unidentified Thorn family (1890s)

Here we note a family photographed at the Atelier Gerdom in Thorn. It is undated, but to is looks to have been taken in the 1890s. It is a fascinting pprtrait because it is colorized. It is much better done than often crudely colorized postcards. It almost looks like a color portrait, but as fr as we know color photography ws not a commercially viable process at this time. As this is a colorized image, we are not sure to what extent the image reflects the actual colors of the childrn's clothes. We are unsure how this might have worked. Pergaps the photographer filled out a form such as dark blue suit and red dress. The colors shown certainly look reasonable. There are four children, three boys and a girl. The younger boy looks to be about four years old and is not yet breeched.

Unidentified Stargard i/P Family

This unidentified Stargrad family was photographed at the Huntze studio in 1891 (figure 1). The portrait is a cabinent card, although CDVs were stillery common in Germany. After Stargrad is written "i/P". That mean in Pomerania. Apparentlt there was another Stargrand in another area of Germany. Three children are pictured with their mother, The boy wears a suit with very highcut lapels. His collar is large, but folded under the lapels. It is not clear what kind of neckwear he is wearing. His kneepants are cut well below the knees. He wears dark long stockings as do his sisters. His little sister wears a white sleeveless dress with colored shoulder ribbons (often meant to symolize leading strings), and a colored waistsash. She has white long stockings. Her older sister wears a sleeved dress with a smocked front and square lace collar. She had a colored hair bow. Both girls have long hair parted in the middle. The children look to be about 7-13 years old. Mother has a dress with full sleeves and a hair bun.

Unidentified Halberstadt family (1892)

Here is a wonderful cabinent portait of the four children in an unidentified Halberstadt family. CDVs were still common in Germany during the 1890s, but we also bein to see cabinent cards. Unfortunately the parents are not pictured, but we see how both boys and girls dressed. The children look to be about 5-10 years old. The girls may be twins. The youngest boy wears a knee pants sailor suit with a lanyard. Charmingly he has a whip for his toy pull horse. I'm guess ing that the toys are studio props. The older boy has no childish toys. He wears a long pants suit with high lapels. Note the napoleonic pose. Thevgirls seem to be wearing identical jacketed dresses. One girl has a basket of flowers. The other has a pram and doll. Again we are gressing that this is a studio prop. The children wear long stockings and high-top shoes.

Budapest Brothers (1892-1911)

Here we do not have informtion on the entire family. We do know that there were four brothers. While we do not have information on the other members of the family, we have very extensive informtion on the brothers over an exteded period, 1892-1911. As we result we have decided to include them her in the family section. This 20-year period provide a wonderful look at boys' fashions at the turn of the 20th century. We at first thought the boys were Hungarian, but we have since learned that they were probably Austrian.

Prosperous Family (1893)

Here we see a prosperous looking German family. All we know for sure about the ortrait was that it was taken in 1893. Mother is elegantly dressed and father exuding a staid demeanor. They have three sons. The two younger sons wear knee pants suits with black long stockings. The youngest has a collar-buttoning suit. The two older boys have lapel jackets. Notice how the jackets are buttoned. Also noticed the boys' cropped hair. Interestingly, the card rather than having an indication of the studio read 'Cabinet Portrait'. We are not sure just what that meant. We think that English was used to give a kind of quality cachet. Foreign languages are often used thst way. And in the 19th century, Germany did nit yet have the reputation for quality photography that it woyld acquire in the 20th century. We suspect that the syudio wa not yet well established which is why the studio did not have card stock prepared with its nane.

Unidentified Brothers (1895)

This 1895 cabinet card portrait shows three children, obvuoiiouskly born in quick secession. The children look to be about 3-7 years old. They are not named, but look to be boys. It is difficult to make out the clohes they are wearing. The youngest boy wears a frock with a ioen neck and large collar and necklace. The middle boy also seems to be wearing a dress, but with a tight collar. The collar and waistband seem to match. The oldest boy wears a blouse. It has an Eton shaped collasr, but is not a stiff white collar. The photographer was Atelier Müller, Rochlitz.

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