Woman with three children and a doll
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What it is:
Photo measuring
What I know about it:
There is handwriting on the back that I can’t read. Click the above link if you’d like to try.
Comments:
To me, this has the look of something European, or of recent immigrants from Europe, and it seems that part of the reason I find the handwriting on the back indecipherable is that it may not be in English. Not only can I not tell what the writing says, but I can’t even be certain it corresponds to the image on the front. (I have at least one photo that was used as a scrap of paper for a shopping list.) But I’m guessing it relates to the image, and is a message to somebody who means something to the woman pictured, perhaps a distant relative, or even family she left behind. The photo is a little more damaged than I usually post, but in this case the wear and tear, combined with the assumption that it carries a message to accompany her slightly pained look, gives it the feel of being not just a random image, but a found document of somebody’s history.
Pics of Then 
The individual expressions are quite interesting…even if it is a bit worn.
Yes, I agree. Often a family locked in a group pose can look very uniform, but these look like four distinct personalities.