Figure 1.--The Saunders were a large Illinois family. The photograph here was taken in 1937. There are ten children--five sons and five daughters. Here we see the parents, Herbert Sr. and Marguerite, holding their twin daughters, Doris and Donna, as babes in arms at the left and right sides of the group.

The Saunders were a large Illinois family. The photograph here was taken in 1937. There are ten children--five sons and five daughters. Here we see the parents, Herbert Sr. and Marguerite, holding their twin daughters, Doris and Donna, as babes in arms at the left and right sides of the group. From left to right (back row) we see Herbert Jr. (about 17), Mary (the eldest child), and Robert (the eldest boy at about 19). The two boys in the middle are Richard and Curtis. In the front row we have the younger children, Nancy (6), William (4), and Patricia (8). The Saunderses seem typical of a solid middle-class family except perhaps for the large number of children. Notice that the older boys wear grown-up suits and ties except for Curtis, who wears a sweater with a zipper opening. We can't be sure, but Richard and Curtis (who are about 9 and 12 respectively) probably wear knickers. The smaller children in front all wear beige long stockings, the standard color in the 1930s. You can see the double buttons of William's Y-shaped hose supporters (probably attached to an underwaist) at the hem of his very short shorts. He wears a V-knecked sweater on top. Nancy and Patricia wear wash dresses.

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