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Here are the McCrea children from Montreal. We see H. McCrae and his baby brother. Unfortunately we do not have their Christian names. The photographs were taken in Montreal on December 2, 1919. Master H. McCrae (about age 7 or 8) wears a short pants style suit with a wide belt made of the same material as the suit and large front buttons. His very wide white collar covers almost half his shoulders and is secured by a black ribbon tie, I think with tassles. The jacket has patch side pockets.
Here are the McCrea children from Montreal. We see H. McCrae and his baby brother. Unfortunately we do not have their Christian names.
The name McCrae suggests a family of Scottish descent. There were many such Anglophone families in Quebec, and particularly in Montreal.
The photographs were taken in Montreal on December 2, 1919. Master H. McCrae is about age 7 or 8. His little brother looks less than 1 years old.
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The two photos were taken on the same day (December 2, 1919). The first image here looks like a home snapshot (figure 1). The second photograph of both children (click on figure 1) looks like a formal studio portrait.
The older boy weasrs wears a short pants style suit with a wide belt made of the same material as the suit and large front buttons. His very wide white collar covers almost half his shoulders and is secured by a black ribbon tie, I think with tassles. The jacket has patch side pockets. The suit appears to have short pants rather than knee pants although the length is like knee pants. I think this could be an example of short trousers as a replacement for the more usual knee pants which were going out of style at the end of the 1910s and being replaced by either knickers or shorts. But at first the shorts were rather longish. They became shorter in the later 1920s and 1930s. Notice also the beige or light tan long stockings--another change to a more modern style from the more customary black long stockings. Beige or tan long stockings became the
dominant color in the 1920s and 1930s, and black had almost disappeared by 1940.
The second photo shows Master H. McCrae with his baby brother, probbly less than a year old. Click on the image to see the second photograph.
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