Figure 1.--This photback postguard show what looks like two brothers and their mother. The boys are wearing sailor caps, white dresses, dounle-breasted sailor overcoats, and dark long stockings. The undivided back suggests that the portrait was taken in the early 1900s, perhaps about 1905. (American undiviuded back post cards (with the term 'post card' date from about 1901-07.) The whicker furniture also helps wiuth the dating. The studio was Flett on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. We were surprised, however, when we read the enscription on the back. The mouther was Jane Chalfaunt, although the writing is a little indistinct. What surprised us is that the children are identified as what looks like Helen (writing indestinct) and Catherine. Hene is identified as 8 years old. Now identifying the gender of children in old photographs is ofren difficult, we think that we are normally able to do so with a fair degree of accuracy. This one completely fooled us. Click on the image to see the back of the postcard. |
