Tag Archives: boys
4 September 2009

A Young Boy in a Sailor Suit, Circa 1915

Much of the US and the world has already gone back to school; those who haven’t will probably start by next Tuesday, the day after Labor Day. This young lad is no doubt posing for his back-to-school portrait. After all, he wouldn’t wear white after Labor Day, would he? Based on the Artura photo paper [...]

3 June 2009

Camp O-AT-KA, East Sebago, Maine

Camp O-AT-KA is a summer camp for boys that exists still today.  It was founded in 1906 and has been on the same site in Sebago, Maine since 1907 .  This postcard might date from as early as 1910, based on the sturdiness of the card stock that was used (and the card is still [...]

26 May 2009

The Eklöf Boys on the Veranda of Villa Sjökulla

All the way from Vaasa, Finland comes today’s postcard of a painting by Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905), a founder of the Realist art movement in Finland, and one of the first Finnish artists to become internationally famous, at least in his own time.  I believe that this is my first exposure to his work; a website [...]

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