Figure 1.--This postcard back portrait looks to us like like an American First Communion group with the priest overseeing the event. The portrait is undated, but looks like the early-1920s to us. We suspect that the children did not go to a Catholic school as there may have been more similarity in how they dressed. we at first tought that this was an American portrait, but we have since learned tht the SATRAP stamp box was German. Click on the image to see the rest of the group.

This portrait looks to us like like an American First Communion group with the priest overseeing the event. The portrait is undated, but looks like the early-1920s to us. We suspect that the children did not go to a Catholic school as there may have been more similarity in how they dressed. The girls all wear the white junior wedding dresses so common for First Communion. The boys, however, wear an a variety of juvenile. Most are dressy outfits, but one boy looks to be wearing a very basic sweter looking rather like a polo shirt. We are guessing that he came from a low income family. We have not seen this style in America. All of these outfits except this one look Americn to us, although American boys usually dressed more formally than this. The principal reason that we are not sure if this was an American group is that so many of the boys have close-cropped hair, not short hair but cropped hair. This was not very common in America, but more common in Europe. So it is posiblr that the childrn here could be European, perhaps German. The children do look ethnically similr than might be expected in America. Many American Catholic churches, however, had etnically based populations such as Irish, Italin, or Polish. So that may be what we seeing here. The phographicpaper used had a stamp-box like image for SATRAP Photo. We believe that there was also SATRAP postcard stamp boxes. We have since tracked down the SATRAP stamp box. This is definitely a German image.

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