Unidentified American Family (late 1920s)


Figure 1.--Here we have a family of six children, three girls and three boys. Unfortunately we know nothing about the family other than can be deduced from the portrait. The children all look alike so besides the grouping, it is clearly a family grouping. It was a portrait printed as a postcard. This portrait is undated, but we know was taken during 1925-34. We tink the late 20s is the most likely.

Here we have a family of six children, three girls and three boys. Unfortunately we know nothing about the family other than can be deduced from the portrait. The children all look alike so besides the grouping, it is clearly a family grouping. It was a portrait printed as a postcard. This portrait is undated, but many can be approximately dated because of the company and stamp box design. It had a Vitava stamp box so we know it was dated some time during 1925-34. The clothing suggess the late 1920s to us, but it easily could be the early 30s. The rompers and collar buttoning suit the little boys are wearing suggests the 1920s to us. The very plain girls' dresses and hair bows suggest that the 1920s to us. The girls clothes also seem to indicated a family of rather modest means. Also notice the still rather young oldest boy wearing a long pants suit. This suggests a working class family to us. Most boys his age at the time wore knicker suits. We would guess that they were either a farm family or an urban Catholic family.






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