*** Watson brothers: Billy and James (United States, 1890s)








Watson boys
Figure 1.-- Here we have a portrait with the subjects, two beothers and their grandmother, identified. We see "Grandmother Rose & grandsons James & 'Billy' Watson". The boys look to be about 4-8 years old. They are wearing standard garments for the period. The younger boy longish, but not culed hair, populr before the boys begin school.

Watson Brothers (United States, 1910s)

Here we have a portrait with the subjects, two brothers and their grandmother, identified. We see "Grandmother Rose & grandsons James & 'Billy' Watson". The boys look to be about 4-8 years old. They are wearing standard garments for the period. The younger boy has longish, but not culed hair, popular generally before boys begin school. He wears a white sailor tunic suit with a star and eagle emroidered on the dicky. With his tunic suit he wears bloomer knickers amd white long stockings. Yunic suits were popular in the 1900s-10s secades, but disapperared for some reason in the early 1920s. We are not sure what he is holding. His big brother wears a knickers suit. The single-breasted jacket has partial Norfolk styling. James has a club collar with a stick-pin closing and a white neck tie. His knickers are bloused out and worn with black long stockings. He wears low cut oxford shoes, not that common in he 1910s.







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