Three Generations, Original Family Photographs c.1910–1920

Set of three original c.1910s family photographic postcards showing women and children in a garden.
Antique photograph of an elderly woman seated with a young girl and small boy, c.1910–1920.
Early 20th-century family photograph showing a mother with four children in period clothing.
Antique photographic postcard showing an elderly woman holding hands with two young children.
Reverse of early 20th-century photographic postcard printed Post Card, Correspondence and Address Only.
Detail of c.1910s family portrait showing children's large white collars, velvet dress and hair ribbons.
Detail of elderly woman in long dark dress and hat with two children in an early family photograph.
Three related antique family photographs preserved together from the early 20th century.
Set of three original c.1910s family photographic postcards showing women and children in a garden.
Antique photograph of an elderly woman seated with a young girl and small boy, c.1910–1920.
Early 20th-century family photograph showing a mother with four children in period clothing.
Antique photographic postcard showing an elderly woman holding hands with two young children.
Reverse of early 20th-century photographic postcard printed Post Card, Correspondence and Address Only.
Detail of c.1910s family portrait showing children's large white collars, velvet dress and hair ribbons.
Detail of elderly woman in long dark dress and hat with two children in an early family photograph.
Three related antique family photographs preserved together from the early 20th century.

Three Generations, Original Family Photographs c.1910–1920

£38.00

A wonderful group of three original early 20th-century photographic postcards, kept together and apparently showing members of the same family across several generations.

The photographs have that extraordinary stillness found in early family photography. An elderly woman appears with two of the children in two images, while another shows a younger woman surrounded by four children. The same little girl and young boy can be recognised across the group, suggesting these were taken during the same period.

The clothes are particularly lovely, oversized white collars, velvet dresses, hair ribbons, beads, buttoned boots and the elderly woman's long dark dress, jacket and hat. Nobody seems particularly delighted about having their photograph taken, which somehow makes them all the better.

The backs are printed in the traditional divided postcard format, suggesting the photographs could originally have been sent through the post, although these examples appear unused.

Three beautifully evocative pieces of British social history which have survived together for around a century.

Sold as a group of three, exactly as found.

There is age-related wear, toning, surface marking and some creasing to the photographic cards. Please see photographs for condition.

Date

c.1910–1920

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