Figure 1.-- We have a portrait Albert Sanborn on his tenth birthday. Unfortunately we know nothing about Albert and his family and where they were from. All we know for sure is that it was his 10th birthday. It looked like a posdtcard back portrait, but that was not common with white border prints. It looksd like it was taken in a modest studio. Albert wears a very traditionally styled middy blouse. The three-stripe styling is repeaed on his dickey and sleeve cuffs. The sailor scarfe is informally tied as was common in America. The portrait is undated. We think it was probably taken about 1910. It could have been taken a little earlier, but not too much later as knee pants were going out of style. We do see younger boys were wesring knee pants in the 1910s, but knickers were more common for boys by 10 years of age.

We have a portrait Albert Sanborn on his tenth birthday. Unfortunately we know nothing about Albert and his family and where they were from. All we know for sure is that it was his 10th birthday. It looked like a posdtcard back portrait, but that was not common with white border prints. It looksd like it was taken in a modest studio. Albert wears a very traditionally styled middy blouse. The three-stripe styling is repeaed on his dickey and sleeve cuffs. The sailor scarfe is informally tied as was common in America. He has a soft sailor cap with a tally reading "U.S. Navy". The portrait is undated. We think it was probably taken about 1910. It could have been taken a little earlier, but not too much later as knee pants were going out of style. We do see younger boys were wesring knee pants in the 1910s, but knickers were more common for boys by 10 years of age. We note a striking resemblence between Albert and Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Newman.

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