Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified group of boys and girls, we think in the 1900s. The cabinet card mount suggests the early-00s. There is no information on the back. We might guess they are a First Communion group. They look to be about 7 years old. The girls all wear white dresses and twin white hair bows. The boys wear what look like identical sailor tunic suits. All the children wear white long stockings and all but one double strap shoes. The child at the right with longish hair seems to be a boy as he wears a salor tunic and does not have white hair bows. The fact that the children are dresses so similary, especilly the boys, meant that the parents would have to purchase the outfit especially for the event. And especially the shoes would have been expensive. As they are presumavly Catholic it suggests that they are probably second-generation immigrants, some of the familes that were suceeding in entering the American mainstream.

Here we see an unidentified group of boys and girls, we think in the 1900s. The cabinet card mount suggests the early-00s. There is no information on the back. We might guess they are a First Communion group. They look to be about 7 years old. The girls all wear white dresses and twin white hair bows. The boys wear what look like identical sailor tunic suits. All the children wear white long stockings and all but one double strap shoes. The child at the right with longish hair seems to be a boy as he wears a salor tunic and does not have white hair bows. The fact that the children are dresses so similary, especilly the boys, meant that the parents would have to purchase the outfit especially for the event. And especially the shoes would have been expensive. As they are presumavly Catholic it suggests that they are probably second-generation immigrants, some of the familes that are suceeding in entering the American mainstream. A reader provides more details, "I agree that the child on the right is a boy. If you like at contemporary catalogs often you see boys at that age with either short hair cuts or long hair as the boy on the right. Also, notice that he is wearing bloomer trousers and a tunic suit which was strictly a boy's outfit. Also notice that three of the boys seem to be wearing double strap patent leather shoes. It also appears to me that the boys' outfits are brand new with a very bright, white while the girls' outfits seems to have been worn before this event. Also 3 boys are wearing boutonnière while the girls have bouquets. All the boys seem to wear shields with their tunic suits (hides the underwear (probably shirt with buttons the boys wore). I think but I am not certain that the boys have embroidered white emblems on their shields. And some of the boys may have ruffles or embroidery trim on the sailor collar. One boy in the front row center wears tie shoes that are definitely patent leather."

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