Figure 1.--Here we see a group of uniformed boys with hiking canes. They presumably were photographed during a hiking expedition. There are some differences with the uniforms especially the headwear that the boys are wearing. We see some hats that look like Australian bush hats. We have seen these hats worn by other boys. We are not sure if this was a hat worn by a single group or a popular style worn by various groups.

Here we see a group of uniformed boys with hiking canes. They presumably were photographed during a hiking expedition. From the setting, it looks like they hiked quite a distance into an isolated senic area. There are some differences with the uniforms especially the headwear that the boys are wearing. We see some hats that look like Australian bush hats. More correctly the term is sliuch hat and the variant here looks rather like the boonie style. We have seen these hats worn by other boys. We are not sure if this was a hat worn by a single group or a popular style worn by various groups. We suspect it was a style inspired by the classic Boy Scout hat. Some of the boys look like they are wearing different types of army caps. Note that these are not the familiar school caps, but actuall army styles. The hats seem to have a coockade. Some boys have collar buttoning jackets. Otghers seem to be wearing white shirts and collars under their jackets. The photograph is undated, but was probably taken during the late-1910s (World War I era) or early-1920s. The dealer suggested it was Wandervogel group. We suspect that was the only early Germn youth she may have known. We think thst this is unlikely. The Wandervogel did not have such military-looking uniforms. They had more of an artistic ethos--music and poetry. Notably we do not see a single guitar wehich the Wandervogel youth often carried. And the Wandervogel included girls. This an all-boy group. We group includes boys of various ages, including older pre-teens and teens. We assume at first that the boys here were in tghe same group and wearing different headwear. On reflection, there is the possibility that two different groups were involved. Also the boy wearing the slouch hats generally look younger than the other boys. So this could have been a junior or cub division