Figure 1.-Here we have a cabinet card of a boy dressed as a baker. The imged is unidentified, but we would guess this is an American boy photographed in the 1890s. We are guessing that perhaps his father was a baker.
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Figure 1.-Here we have a cabinet card of a boy dressed as a baker. The imged is unidentified, but we would guess this is an American boy photographed in the 1890s. We are guessing that perhaps his father was a baker. |
We notice boys (but rarely girls) dressed in occupational costumes. Some of the most common seem bakers and butchers, but this is just an initial impression. Here we are listing a variety of "exciting" occupations (firemen, police, soldiers ect.) that especially appeal to boys separately. Here we have noted more mundane
occupations working-class operarions. We don't note a lot of beaureacrat, lawyer and doctor costumes. What is curious here is that these do not seem to be occupations wuth great appeal to boys. I don't recall, for example, a friend ever telling me that he wanted to be a baker. We are guessing here that these occupational costumes reflect a boy following his fatner's occupation.
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