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These children are Robert, Leo and Bernard Flynn, having fun, probably in their own backyard, by playing at camping. Robert is about 8 years old, Leo seems about 2-3 years, and Bernard seems about 5 years. It is obviously summer time. The boys are all dressed in white, but Robert wears white long stockings with his short trousers even for relaxation, whereas his younger brother Bernard has bare knees and white ankle or three-quarter socks. They have a play tent which seems to consist or a blanket or tarpualin of some sort thrown over a ridge pole. Judging from the family name, the Flynn family was probably Irish and Roman Catholic. Robert looks almost as though he could have come from his first communion at a local church since the white long stockings and knee pants or knickers short trousers were standard dress for such occasions in the 1910s. The snapshot is undated, but we would guess the 1910s. It is a klittle difficult to date because the clothing details are rather washed out. The boys had a colorful uncle named Patrick, a brother of the boys' mother, who lived in New Haven, Connecticut, and was a fashionable bootlegger, who drove around in a silver Cadillac with a chuaffeur. The car had bullet-holes in its sides and was the subject of local gossip. The boys' mother, Jane, was extremely pious and is said to tried to atone for her brother's irregular and apparently illegal lifestyle by constant religious devotions.
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