Figure 1-We see the Breckwoldt children posed for a studio cabint portrait in a toy pony cart set up. It was a large size cabinet card (9 1/2" by 7 1/4"). There are three children, 1-9 years old. They are as best we can make out from the writing in the back: Otlilie Olga Wilhelmine (1 1/2 years old), Irmgarde Enile Ida (age 3 years old), and Rudolf Carl Hermann (9 years old). Click on th image to see if you can better make out the writing. It seens to have been written in German, suggesting relatively recent German immigrants..

We see the Breckwoldt children posed for a studio cabint portrait in a toy pony cart set up. It was a large size cabinet card (9 1/2" by 7 1/4"). There are three children, 1-9 years old. They are as best we can make out from the writing in the back: Otlilie Olga Wilhelmine (1 1/2 years old), Irmgarde Enile Ida (age 3 years old), and Rudolf Carl Hermann (9 years old). Click on th image to see if you can better make out the writing. It seens to have been written in German, suggesting relatively recent German immigrants. The family lived in Dolgeville, New York, a small village in central New York near Albany, The portrit was taken in May 1907. Oytlilie, the baby, wears a lacy infant dress. Irmgarde wears a fluffy white coat with a flower hat and a huge white bow. Rudolf wears a plain dark sailor suit with a wide brimed hat, knicker pants, and dark long stockings. At the time knickers had just begun to relace knee pants for American boys.

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