Figure 1.--This Riga cabinet card shows a young fanily with four children about 1-7 years old, perhaps two boys and two girls. It is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1900s while Latvia was a Tsarist province. We have no idea who the family is. They could be Latvian, German, or Russian. In Riga and other cities, the population was more mixed than he countryside which was largely Latvian. The mustschioed father wears a bowler hat with high collar. Mother has a wonderful decorated hat. Except for the baby, the children all have wide-brimmed hat. The little girl's hat is a little different than the ones the boys are wearing. We can't tell much about what they are wearing, because mother has added a huge drape over lace collar to what all four children are wearing.

This Riga cabinet card shows a young fanily with four children about 1-7 years old, perhaps two boys and two girls. It is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1900s while Latvia was a Tsarist province. We have no idea who the family is. They could be Latvian, German, or Russian. In Riga and other cities, the population was more mixed than he countryside which was largely Latvian. The mustschioed father wears a bowler hat with high collar. Mother has a wonderful decorated hat. Except for the baby, the children all have wide-brimmed hat. The little girl's hat is a little different than the ones the boys are wearing. We can't tell much about what they are wearing, because mother has added a huge drape over lace collar to what all four children are wearing. One boy looks to be a toy rifle. The studio was Carl Kistenmacher in Riga. Even the Schmiedestr street address is German. Many of the photographic studios in the Baltic republics were Germans.

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