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Coming of Age

By C.E. Ryan

CDV. Private Collection.

CDV. Private Collection.

A CDV that looks like a mini cabinet card with the embossing on the front. This one is of an about 12 year old boy who graduated from knickerbockers to a grown up suit a bit too large for him (smart parents).

But the kid made sure he looked the part with a cigar, holding it like all the adults did on pictures.

They started young…

Photographer: J. Zimmermann. Eggenfelden. Germany.

4 Comments | tags: cigar, Eggenfelden, europe, Germany, smoking | posted in Boys, CDVs

Smoking in a fedora

By C.E. Ryan

Candid

A candid photo I’ve seen and digitally fixed up a bit. What’s more stereotypical of the 30s than a man in a fedora smoking a cigarette?

10 Comments | tags: 1930s-1940s, fedora, profile, smoking | posted in Gentlemen, Others

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