Tea Party at Play Tent with American Flag, c. 1940s-50s Snapshot slate chalkboard and feathered hair

and feathered hair

I particularly like them opened all the way out and around again so that the knees knock and toes face

5" x 7" each

and there is just a tiny bit of wrinkling to the paper along the bottom edge at the center

Tea Party at Play Tent with American Flag, c. 1940s-50s Snapshot slate chalkboard and feathered hairLooks like afternoon tea under the tent to me. Two girls and one younger brother both girls reminding me of a young Sally Draper from Mad Men and I might guess it is an affluent Westchester County suburb in which this tent is pitched! I like it for everything packed into what seems at first a simple scene of backyard play from American flag waving atop the tent, to the contents of toy teacup being slurped up by the boy and the sense of these kids