Figure 1.-- The family here is unidentified. All the blond children suggest they may be one of the Swedish families that settled in the Upper-Midwest and Dakotas. This portrait show cases mom and she certainly deserves it. There are nine children about as close in age as ius biologically posible. They look to be about a few months to 14 years of age and there is every reason to expect that there are more on the way. The curious thing about that this prtrait is that dad is in the back, almost obscured by the children. This is very rare in studio portraiture, even today. The children are all soberly dressed. Although taken during the Funtleroy era, there is no trace of Fauntleroy styling except for the floppy bows which are rather modest for the period. The studio was C.K. Lien in Coopertown, North Dakota.

The family here is unidentified. All the blond children suggest they may be one of the Sedish families that settled in the Upper-Midwest and Dakotas. This portrait show cases mom and she certainly deserves it. There are nine children about as close in age as is biologically posible. They look to be about a few months to 14 years of age and there is every reason to expect that there are more on the way. The curious thing about that this prtrait is that dad is in the back, almost obscured by the children. This is very rare in studio portraiture, even today. The children are all soberly dressed. Although taken during the Funtleroy era, there is no trace of Fauntleroy styling except for the floppy bows which are rather modest for the period. The boys all have close-cropped hair, presumably done my mother. The portrait is undated, but must have been taken in the 1890s. The card tells us that South Dakota was a state and this occurred in November 1889. The studio was C.K. Lien in Coopertown, North Dakota.

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