Figure 1.--The children were photographed with their Zuckertüten, often in a photographic studio. We see many family snap shots, but studio portraits were very common through the 1950s. Thee were not portraits of the cones of course, bbut a type of first day school portraits. And this poses another little wrinkel to the Zuckertüte tradition. We have thought it must have been frustrating for a 6-year old to have to take his cone to school and wait all day to tear into it, not to mention the issue of poor children who did not gert cones or children with small cones. But the studio portrait mean that the child had to wait even longer to get into his cone.

The children were photographed with their Zuckertüten, often in a photographic studio. We see many family snap shots, but studio portraits were very common through the 1950s. Thee were not portraits of the cones of course, bbut a type of first day school portraits. And this poses another little wrinkel to the Zuckertüte tradition. We have thought it must have been frustrating for a 6-year old to have to take his cone to school and wait all day to tear into it, not to mention the issue of poor children who did not gert cones or children with small cones. But the studio portrait mean that the child had to wait even longer to get into his cone. We are not entirely sure when the studio portraits were taken, but we would guess that it was before the actual first day of school. This mean the poor child had to wait even longer. Some children may have been taken to the portrait studio after school, but surely the studios would have had difficulty taking all these portraits in the few hours after school. I know as a 6-year old I would have had great difficulty carrying one of these gidt cones around all day without getting into it and if photographed a day or so before it would have been even more frustrating. Perhaps some of our German readers remember the experience.

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