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Here we see a mother and her two children. The boy's name was Earnest. His little sister was Claudine. We do not know their last name. Earnest wears his above-the-knee knickers with dark knee socks. Unfortunately the imge is undated. It looks to us as if it was takern in the mid-1920s. Ernest apparently teased his liitle sister about have crosseyes when the prints were developed. The portrait was done as a postcard back print. We are not sure when this photograph was taken, but would guess about 1925. Here the style of the jacket and the above-the-knee knickers help to date the image. We are not sure where in America the children lived. A French Canadian reader suggests northern New England. He writes, "Just to tell you that by physiognomy and first names, this family is
French-Canadian (Québec) or Franco-American in Maine, Vermont, New-Hampshire or from such places as Boston or Lowell , Mass." We do not have the children's last name. There is a note on the back which definitely identifies the children as American, but as our reader mentions they may have been of French-Canadian ancestry.
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