Figure 1.--Here we are not sure about the boy's name, but think it might be Roscoe Jones. It is a useful image, because it shows how American boys commonly dressed in the 1910s. The boy here wears a shirt, knickers, and black long stockings. This was how the vast majority of American boys dressed at the time. He was photographed outside his home with his musical instrument. Click on the image to see the back of the card.

Here we are not sure about the boy's name, but think it might be Roscoe Jones. It is a useful image, because it shows how American boys commonly dressed in the 1910s. The boy here wears a flat cap, shirt, knickers, and black long stockings. This was how the vast majority of American boys dressed at the time. He was photographed outside his home with his musical instrument. Many photographs at the time are taken outside the home in the sunlight , because of the complications associated with indoor photography. His is making beautiful music on his Clarinet. We feel certain this is a Clarinet, but there is a remote chance it is an Oboe. It is a photo postcard. (The prints came back with a postcard firmatted back so they could be mailed to family and friends.) The back is written in juvenile script in pencil :Dear Friend, Can you gess who this is on the postcard. The signature is initials and it looks like "P. S." or P. A". The addressee is Rosco Jones, Potlatch, Idaho and in the center, written vertically and smaller in much better handwriting is "Pop in front of Hugbarts (?) house". We found a Rosco Jones in the Idaho who was born on January 24, 1908 and died at 12 years of age on March 31, 1920. There is a possibility this is the same person. Note that thsince the postcard was not mailed, Roscoe probably used the space to write his name. We estitimate this postcard to be from the 1910s, perhaps the late 1910s. The card is postally unused aqnd thus there is no postmark, but the AZO stamp box tells us that it was printed some time from 1904-18. A reader writes, "Another interesting feature of this photo is the obvious wearing of long underwear underneath the stockings. Note the lumpy look. Some waists suits of course had long legs, but I suspect that this boy is just wearing an ordinary long-legged union suit with some sort of waist on top for the attachment of his garters." For a fuller discussion of this see support of outer clothes.

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