See, I was just noticing how much better her figure is than mine, and with FIVE KIDS, too. The blouse all tucked into her skirt, nice waistline. Sigh. I’m freaking lazy is all.
Nice picture. Common back in those days for this type of picture. I would have to say the youngest is a boy. All young boys of proper families where dressed in similar fashion as above. They did not wear pants until properly potty trained. Thus the reason for th dress easier to change the cloth diapers.
Mom is actually 4′9″ and standing on a crate to make it evenly spaced.
Actually, i really DO think she’s standing on something. Or she’s very short-waisted with extremely long legs!
The smallest child is definitely a boy. You can’t always tell by the way they were dressed at that age, but little girls had their hair parted on the side and little boys had theirs parted right down the center. Well, they had to do something to tell them apart!
My aunt and uncle have a picture of their family that is similar to this one, except the background and floor are all white. Taken when their youngest was just 1 year old, all 8 of them form bars in line from smallest to largest. Not awkward at all, it is one of my all time favorite photographs.
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This looks like an ad for an AT&T cellular phone.
lol more bars in more places!
Great idea!
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that. Also wondering why they line up so perfectly… @__@
Hysterical!! Get at&t on the phone!
If only my mobile had that many bars…
raising the bar
lol
What happens when the kids grow?they’ll ruiin the picture, damn!HAHHA
nice one
There were actually six kids, but one didn’t fit. Needless to say, he was kicked out of the family.
Baaahahahaha! I didn’t fit in with my family either.
I was thinking that too! God forbid she had twins..that would mess the whole thing up!
Wow. They all have huge feet!
Since shoes were probably pricey back in the day they probably had to wear shoes 3 sizes too big
And big frickin’ ears.
See, I was just noticing how much better her figure is than mine, and with FIVE KIDS, too. The blouse all tucked into her skirt, nice waistline. Sigh. I’m freaking lazy is all.
Don’t feel too bad. Corsets are very forgiving.
Nice picture. Common back in those days for this type of picture. I would have to say the youngest is a boy. All young boys of proper families where dressed in similar fashion as above. They did not wear pants until properly potty trained. Thus the reason for th dress easier to change the cloth diapers.
I agree with the thought process but I’m going with girl.
In those days, kids were potty trained at 2 weeks of age.
this picture is PERFECT! i love it
A perfect line! They must not have lost any to childhood disease.
haha all i can see is the photographer running away.
Amazing. How are they all so equally spaced vertically. The slope doesn’t very. You could use them like stairs
stairs! ha! hilarious!!
OMG…How did they manage to grow them almost exactly 1 head-height apart?!!? Great pic though…
is it just me, or is the line a perfect diagonal until they get to the smallest child? now THAT is timing it.
way to go mom! ^^
Mom is actually 4′9″ and standing on a crate to make it evenly spaced.
Actually, i really DO think she’s standing on something. Or she’s very short-waisted with extremely long legs!
I think it’s a high-waisted skirt, otherwise her arms would be too long for the rest of her body.
I thought the same thing! That mom’s incredible.
these children were bred for the sole purpose of this photograph
That’s awesome.
I bet they swapped in a cousin or neighbor’s kid to make this work so well.
they tried. they tried. they tried. they tried. ah sweet success!
This should be the new Cingular commercial! They’re “raising the bar”!
LOL! Perfect!
Ok, Rollcall!!
Gomez!? Check.
Morticia!? Check.
Pugsley? Check.
Wednesday!? Check.
Fester? Check.
Lurch!? Check.
Cousin Itt? Cousin Itt? Cousin Itt?
Cousin Itt has been dropped from the roll….
Cingular….Raising the bars,
but with even more amp.
OMG. I LOVE this picture!
But, can they sing?
Before the Von Trapps was the lesser-known American family, the MacDougalls!!
Has anyone seen Tom Thumb?
or…
We now present…Thing 1 and Thing 2
Does anybody know the true history behind this photo?? This picture has infatuated me for some strange reason.
The one smack dab in the middle looks like trouble.
They definitely all got Dad’s ears..
That was my exact thought Sarah, I was looking to see if anyone else noticed that, and you beat me to it.
More bars in more places.
Why does people in these old pictures always look insane?
Wondering if any child(ren) didn’t make the shot because they were too tall/short.
The smallest child is definitely a boy. You can’t always tell by the way they were dressed at that age, but little girls had their hair parted on the side and little boys had theirs parted right down the center. Well, they had to do something to tell them apart!
This is so my family. We always do awkward poses like this for our family portraits.
They finally got a girl!
The youngest one is such a cutie!
Hmm…two of these things are not like the other ones…
I shudder to think what would have happened if they had twins or *gasp* triplets!
Talk about hand-me-downs!
I love how perfectly their heights coincide. Mom’s probably got some wicked heels on.
ALL THAT for a girl…. finally!
Even our primitive ancestors realized that humans come in different heights.
Boys would start out in dresses, work their way up to knee pants, and eventually graduate to full-length trousers.
Wow, that is crazy. It’s a perfect line!
very cute. i love the concept. hahahaha
The coolest part is when they split into halves, and put each person inside the next largest one.
That’s AT&T’s ad campaign…the bars. Verizon has the dude that walks thru the dessert asking “can you hear me now”
They finally got a GIRL!!!
See those buckin ears on the side of their buckin heads? That makes them Buccaneers! Arrrgghh Shiver me timbers…..
For Halloween they could walk around with quarters on their heads and tell everybody that they are a bunch of thumbtacks……
My aunt and uncle have a picture of their family that is similar to this one, except the background and floor are all white. Taken when their youngest was just 1 year old, all 8 of them form bars in line from smallest to largest. Not awkward at all, it is one of my all time favorite photographs.
is he walking through german chocolate cake? or maybe banana creme pie?
Agreed. I actually think it is fantastic. Nicely composed.
I also love this picture… you can’t do this very often.. with such a straight line to it
OMG, now THAT’s funny
I’d say at least three nines…..
+1
I was going to say the same thing. Made nappy changes and toilet-training easier too.
Sorry Donna, My money is on a boy. They used to dress em like that
OL FERTILE MYRTLE AND HIS ZYGOTES!!
I think more ladies should wear monocles, thats sort of “edgy”. Do you think she has a tattoo to go with it.
My first thought as well. If thats not Lovecraft they must be related. Well unless everyone back then had giant mutant chins…
Nice!
I said “nice” to this once already, Bryan…saying it again as your female alter-ego will earn you no more praise.
Yeah, what is that? Like a perfect 43 degrees?
I wonder if it was 40 by the end of the shoot?
yeah, that’s what I was thinking!!
That could be a boy. My grandma said that sometimes that young boys were put in dresses. Look at the hair too.
It WOULD be pretty difficult to hear much if you’re in the middle of a dessert–the chocolate could get stuck in your ears!
(Now a DESERT, on the other hand…)
those are some crazy ears!
Infant mortality being what it was at the time, this family was very lucky to not have a couple gaps that would have roughed up the ramp a bit.
HAHAHA!!
I meant legs no leas sorry very tired