Photograph of Sixteen Girls in Sailor-Style Dresses

Children, clothes, girls, portrait, sailor

“Photograph of Sixteen Girls in Sailor-Style Dresses,” Madison Historical, accessed October 21, 2025, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/2376.

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Undated photograph of sixteen girls in two rows. The girls are wearing sailor-style dresses. Although undated, the photograph was likely taken between 1900-1920. The photograph may have been taken as part of activities related to a turnverein, or German cultural hall, in southwest Illinois.

• SIUE Archive

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• culture
• children

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

• 1900s - 1920s
  East St. Louis, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-010