Figure 1.-- The two boys wear identical kneepants sailor suits with long stockings. The sailor suits are the button-up jacket style rather than the middy blouse style. Theu look anout 4- 6 years old. |
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This portrait is unidentified and undated. All we know anout the portrait is that it was taken in Dessau, Germany. We would guess that it was taken in the 1910s. Album1900 estimates that it was taken about 1905-10. The family looks comfortable, but ceryainly not rich. The mother wears a blouse and skirt rather than a dress, a sign of informality that was not common in the 1890s. The father wears a rather formal collar and tie. The two boys wear identical kneepants sailor suits with long stockings. The sailor suits are the button-up jacket style rather than the middy blouse style. Both boys have close-cropped hair cuts. I think this is an indicator that the familyh was not especially affluent. They look anout 4- 6 years old. Their older sister wears a very plain print dress with a pigtail. She looks about 11 years old.
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