Here are Tommy & Margaret, or possibly the children of Tommy & Margaret, December 1957. The boy has a wonderful cowboy hat and embroidered cowboy shirt, complete with a ranch hand twirling a rope on the right shoulder and possibly a horse on the left. This style was a huge fashion trend for boys and …
This happy family posed in front of a tree for their Christmas picture. The parents and three small children look happy in the sunshine. One of the parents was a smart alec and signed their card “Guess who :-)” Well, we shall remain guessing after all these years!
Jumping forward to the 1950s, when these photo Christmas cards really became popular, we see Bobby posed to look up into the face of the future. His parents were Evelyn and Walter.
Today we have a sweet little baby in a bonnet. While we retrospectively think these bonnets are cute and were for show, they served a very practical purpose of keeping the baby’s head warm. Even today, there are caps, knitted beanies and all sorts of cute adornments for an infant’s head. The infant mortality rate …
This photo was photographed by M. Frank Miller, who provided the previous image of our Little Lord Fauntleroy. This child is wearing a lovely, long dress. It is interesting to note that the photograph seems to have an oval shape, much like a frame or album opening, right in the middle of the dress – …
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