Figure 1.-- We have absolutely no information about this family portrait. They are clearly a comfortable middle-class family. It is a cabinet card, but it is one of the new style mounts that did not have studio information. Thus all we have to go on is the mount style and what we can see in the photograph. The mount style suggests the 1910s to us, although we know less about German than Ammerican mounts. Cabinet cards were once almost entirely studio portraits. With the advent of the snap shot, we see more portraits outside the studio.

We have absolutely no information about this family portrait. They are clearly a comfortable middle-class family. It is a cabinet card, but it is one of the new style mounts that did not have studio information. Thus all we have to go on is the mount style and what we can see in the photograph. The mount style suggests the 1910s to us, although we know less about German than Ammerican mounts. Cabinet cards were once almost entirely studio portraits. With the advent of the snap shot, we see more portraits outside the studio. This looks like a snapshot dad took (which is why he is not in the photograph) and had mounted. Dad is not there, but we see a very lazy family pooch. The clothing looks like the 1910s to us. The late-1900s is possible, but we do not think the late-1910s. The one boy's hat looks more like the 1910s than 1900s. Without the studio information there is no easy way of knowing where it was taken, but there are sevral indicators that the family is German. The most obvious is that the girl is wearing a dirdl, the German (Bavarian/Austrian) folk dress. America has a large German minirity, but we o not noticevthe girls wearing drindls. The younger boys wear marching collar buttoning knee onts uits. The older boy wears a lapel jacket long pants suit. The house has more of a German than an American look, especially the wood working on the banisters. The bicycle is also a clue. American families would be more likely to show off a car than a bike. There are four chilren about 5-14 years old.

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