Figure 1.-- John looks to be about 6 years old in the photigrphs. In one he is all dressed up with his mother, Madelle, George’s second wife. John is wearing a striped tunic, apopular style at the time. He is wearing a turned down wide-brimmed hat, a style characteristic of the 1910s.

A HBC reder has sent some photigraphs of John Wiedenmayer, the son of George Wiedenmayer, the noted Newark, New Jersey businessman, brewery owner, and philanthropist. George was born in Newark (1848). George's father and family patriarch ws from the German immigrnt before the large flow of immigrants before the failed 1848 liberal revolutions. George's father opened a brewey (1858). George learned the brewery trade there from his father. George opened his own brewery (1880), the George W. Wiedenmayer Brewery. It became one if the largest breweries in New Jersey, a state home to quite a number of breweries. George pursued other ventures such as steamboat lines. His father had been active in politics and George followe in that tradition. George died (1909), a few yers before the photogrphs of John were taken. Pohibition forced the Brewery to shift to ice cream. We have a series of snapshots of John taken about 1912. John grew up in privlidged circumstances as both his father and grandfather made a gret deal of money. John looks to be about 6 years old in the photogrphs. In one he is all dressed up with his mother, Madelle, George’s second wife. John is wearing a striped tunic, a popular style at the time. John's tunic does not have a belt which was very common. He is wearing a turned down wide-brimmed hat, a style characteristic of the 1910s. This is how a boy from a well-to-do fmily might be dressed. Middle-class boys wore tunics as well, but the hat Kohn is wear is more od an upper-class touch. In another photo he’s with his aunt Leile in more casual attire, arare exmple of casual clothes from the period. Too often all we have is the children either dressed up or in casual clothing, but not aset of imags showing both.

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