I want to get back to older photos, but I couldn’t resist posting this adorable sequence of three photos of Art and Jim two or so years after the photo in yesterday’s post. The boys are sitting on the front porch of the Wright residence at the north end of Geary Street in Albany. There is no indication what the occasion was.
In case it isn’t obvious, Art is on the left, Jim is on the right. When I first came across these photos, I thought Art was on the right and one of his older sisters on the left (due to the length of Art’s hair). I am told that our mother was so taken with Art’s curls that she couldn’t bear to cut his hair. This seems so out of character for Mom, at least to me. But Art being the first son after three daughters, maybe. She did eventually cut Art’s hair, of course.
Art’s personality shines through at this age!! Adorable sequence!
I don’t remember ever seeing those pictures. They are SO cute! It is so typically Arthur: “Don’t feel bad, Jim; we can solve this if I just put my arm around your neck!” Very precious! What you say about his hair is true: after 3 girls with STRAIGHT hair, she couldn’t bear to cut off his curls.
Oh, my!
I don’t know if it was the norm at the time, but my mom didn’t cut Larry’s and my hair until we were 2. We both had blond curls like Art’s.
Thanks for this, Neal. Maybe, as you say, it was not unusual at the time to let baby boys’ hair grow long before the “first cutting.”