Figure 1.--Here we have have an unidentified German boy on his first day of school. Many of these photographs before World War II were formal studio portraits. After the War, family sapshots like the photograph here were more common. While we do not know the boy;s name, we do know the portrait was taken in 1957. Given his clothese, we would guess that he might be from Bavaria. |
Here we have have an unidentified German boy on his first day of school. Many of these photographs before World War II were formal studio portraits. After the War, family sapshots like the photograph here were more common. While we do not know the boy;s name, we do know the portrait was taken in 1957. Given his clothese, we would guess that he might be from Bavaria. The boy wears a plaid shirt with halter and Lederhosen. He also wears paterned kneesocks and high-top shoes. Younger boys still wore high-top shoes in the 1950s. He has a small school cone. After the War the children tended to have more moderate sized cones than we sometimes see before the War. He has a classic school stachel, but note that the eraser cloth/spomge is not attached. Also note that he does not have the small lunch carrier that we often see before the War.
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