This First Communion scene has no accompaning information. The dealer believes that the photograph was taken in the 1940s, somewhere in western New York state. We see children doing their First Communion all dressed in white. The girls are wearing the junor wedding dresses. The boys are wearing white short pants suits. In the example we have, we see with white knee socks. We only see a few of the children. Accompnying the First Communion photographs asre som school images, apprently the school attended by the children doing First Communion. The photographs are not dated, but based on the school images, we think we are talking about the 1940s, probbly the mid- or late-40s. We say that in part because we no longer see any knickers (which were common in the 30s) and the boys are not all wearing long pants (which was common in the 50s).
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Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified First Communion gtrop, we believe in the 1940s, perhaps in Western New York. The girls wear white junior wedding drsses. The boys wear white short pants suits. Click on the image to see what we think is the school they attended, probanly at about the sanme time.