Figure 1.-- This is an unidentified fisherman's family on the island of Spetses off Attica in the Aegean Sea after World War II. We would guess the photogrph was taken during the early-1950s. We see three boys ad their mother. At the time a photograph lik this could have been taken anywhere in southern Europe. The regiion in genal and fishermen in particular were very poor. In southern Italy and Spain, in Portugal and in Greece bare feet were very common and almost the norm among fishermen's children, sometimes all year round.

This is an unidentified fisherman's family on the island of Spetses off Attica in the Aegean Sea after World War II. We would guess the photogrph was taken during the early-1950s. We see three boys ad their mother. At the time a photograph lik this could have been taken anywhere in southern Europe. The regiion in genal and fishermen in particular were very poor. In southern Italy and Spain, in Portugal and in Greece bare feet were very common and almost the norm among fishermen's children, sometimes all year round. Mother wears a pinafore ad is also barefoot. Notice how one boy has rolled up his short pahts to keep them from getting wet. We are not entirely sure why his brothers did not do the same. Perhaps they did not go into the water. Also notice the long-sleeved shirts.

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