Figure 1.--Many boys had ther portraits taken on their first day to send to family and friends. They were commonly taken with their school satchel and lunch container. There were also commercial post cards which friends and relatives purchased to send to children on their first day. |
Many boys had ther portraits taken on their first day to send to family and friends. They were commonly taken with their school satchel and lunch container. There were also commercial post cards which friends and relatives purchased to send to children on their first day. Notably the children depicted on these cards tends to be a fairly accurate depiction of how the children actually dressed for school. They contrast to the rather sentimental Belgian, French, and Dutch postcards of the time which commonly depicted children in much fancier clothes and hair styles than they commonly wore. I'm not entirely sure how to interpret this.
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