U.S. First Communion Suits: Unidentified Pennsylvania Boy (late-1930s)
Figure 1.-- We are not entirely sure how to date this portrait. All we know for sure is that he ws from Reading, Pennsylvanisa. He is pictured with his father for a First Communion portrait. We suspect that they are an Italian immigrant family. Reading was a northeastern industrial city that attracyed Italian and other European immigrants in the late-19th and early 20th century. The background looks rather old fashioned, but the long knickers and ankle socks look like the 1930s to us. We do not note boys commonly wearing ankle socks in the 1910s and 20s for formal portraits. And the long knickers are also unusual for this period. So we think think it must be the 1930s, probably the late-1930s.
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We are not entirely sure how to date this portrait. All we know for sure is that he ws from Reading, Pennsylvanisa. He is pictured with his father for a First Communion portrait. We suspect that they are an Italian immigrant family. Reading was a northeastern industrial city that attracyed Italian and other European immigrants in the late-19th and early 20th century. The background looks rather old fashioned, but the long knickers and ankle socks look like the 1930s to us. We do not note boys commonly wearing ankle socks in the 1910s and 20s for formal portraits. And the long knickers are also unusual for this period. So we think think it must be the 1930s, probably the late-1930s. The boy has an unusual cilored First Cmmunin sleeve bow. Usually these bows were white.
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Created: 3:44 AM 12/6/2007
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