Figure 1.--This image is unidentified, except that it was German. All we know is that the studio was Otto Reitmeyer located in Munich. The portrait was taken in M�nchen (Munich) about 1875. Note that the younger brother is dressed identically with his older sisters. All three wear dark long stockings. The only differebce we can see is that the little boy seems to be wearing long underwear under his long stockings. We would guess the childreb to be about 3/4-9 years old. Notice the body language in the portrait, suggestig a very close-knit loving family.
Younger boys wore dresses. After breeching, cut-away jackets with vests and small collars continued to be popular. Some boys wore small bows. Younger boys might wear bloomer knickers, but were long pants were still common. We notice some expensive suits done in velvet. Younger boys wore suit styles that were quite varied. We note suits with military styling. Collars as in the 1860s tended to be small and bows and other neckwear realtively restrained. Girls wore print dresses. Plaid seems to have been popular. Skirt lengths for younger girls tended to be well above the ankles. Some mothers liked to dress the children alike. We notice several portraits with the children all dressed alike. Boys hair styles might be longish, but by the end of the decade shorter cuts were more common.
A HBC reader tells us, "After my studies are finished I have enough free-time again to do some genealogy research. Finally I updated my genealogy-homepage and added a gallery. It's interesting to see all the generations together. There are even pictures of my great-great-great-grandparents. Genealogy is fun!
We do not know the name of this Stuggart family. The clothing and hair styles suggest that they came from an affluent family. They were photographed by Brandseph, a notale city photographer. The long hair of the older boy suggests that the portrait was probably taken in the early 1870s. There are three children, we believe two boys and a girl. It is difficult to determine the gender of the younger child wearing a skirt, but we would guess the child is a girl. The other two children are clearly boys. The middle cgild wears an expensive-looking velvet suit and has long shoulder-length curly hair. The older boy wears a double-breasred suit and high-cut vest. Both boys have small collars and cross ties rather than bows.
Here we see three German brothers from what looks like the 1870s. The three boys are dressed in identical velve suits. It looks to be an affluent family. The pose is rather formal as was normal at the time, but the boys manage to convey a little fraternal affection by linking arms and holding hands. The boys are unidentified and the image is undated but from the style of the card and clothes I would date it to the 1870s. The portrait was taken at the Studio of Lutze & Witte, Berlin "im Aquarium Gebaude".
Here we see three children from an unidentified Hamburg family. The portrait is undated, but we believe was taken in 1870s. One child in a fashionable suit is clearly a boy. The gender of the other child is less clear. The child wears a dress, but children that age both boys and girls, both wore dresses. The child looks rather like a boy with short hair. The earrings, however, suggest that the child is probably a girl. There is no way to assess the gender of the infant.
This brother and sister was photographed in Bremen during 1873. Their names were Ina and Ludwig. Unfortunately we do not know their family name. Ludwig wears a very plain jacket without any embroidery or other decoration except edgeing. Ludwig has a matching vest and bloomer knickers. Notice the stripe on the knickers.
Here we see a family with two girls and their little brother. Unfortunately we know nothing about the family except that they were from Munich. The boy looks to be 3-4 years old. All the children wear identically styled dresses. The body language of the children suggests a close-knit loving family. We wonder about clothing differences in the German states in the 19th century. This portrait was taken only a few after German unification.
This caninet card portrait shows a handsome Bremen family, the parent and four chilkdrem about 3-10 tears old, three boys and a girl. . They are all well dressed suggesting a family in comfortable circumstances. Rgw boys all wear huvenile styled suits. Two of the boys wear collar-uttoning jackets, one a vekvet suit. The other suit is done with poping. The okser boy wears a cut-aeay jacket. They all have ribbon tie neckwar with small white collars. They also have long knee pants. Note the younger boy's white stockings. The girl wears a long wjire sress, but we can not make out the details. We can make out her center part and we think back curls. The portrait is undated, bit thevstudii won a gold medal at am Utrecht exposition in 1876. So the portraut would have been taken some time after that.
