Figure 1.-- A dealer believes that this class portrait was taken about 1928. A least we think ot is a class, we are not entirely sure about the ages of the boys in the portrait. The portrait is not real clear. The boys look like teenagers to us, but there seem to be several year grouops, say boys about 13-16 years old. The dealer tells us, "School photograph from around 1928. The portrait depcits a boy's school in New York. We don't know the name of the school, but it looks like a private school. The boy in the lower right hand corner as you look at the photo is Robert Eversfield, born 1918. He went to school in New York and appears about 10 years old in this photo." To us the boys seem more dressed like the 1910s, but we are not at all sure. The boys all wear suits, including both knickers and long pants.

A dealer believes that this class portrait was taken about 1928. A least we think ot is a class, we are not entirely sure about the ages of the boys in the portrait. The portrait is not real clear. The boys look like teenagers to us, but there seem to be several year grouops, say boys about 13-16 years old. The dealer tells us, "School photograph from around 1928. The portrait depcits a boy's school in New York. We don't know the name of the school, but it looks like a private school. The boy in the lower right hand corner as you look at the photo is Robert Eversfield, born 1918. He went to school in New York and appears about 10 years old in this photo." To us the boys seem more dressed like the 1910s, but we are not at all sure. The boys all wear suits, including both knickers and long pants. The portrait is blind stamped Scherer, Brooklyn, 489 Fulton Street. Presumably the school was near the studio. The backdropp is a studio backdrop not a school scene. The portrait is 9.25 x 6.5 inches and is glued to a tan mat, 11 x 14 in. Thus this is a large cabinet card, not a portrait in a paper frame that was the standard for the 1920s.

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