This week for Sepia Saturday, our prompt photo showed two children feeding a lamb, taken from the Dutch National Archives. Well, what a better week to show a photo of Dutch children feeding a goat! I’ve put up the back of the photo too, even though I can’t make out the handwriting enough to translate it with Google Translate. There was no label on the page or on the photo to indicate who the children are, and there are even a few photos of them! They don’t look familiar, so I’m going to guess they may have been friends who lived near Uithuizen in the Netherlands where my husband’s grandmother grew up. The little girl on the far left does appear to be feeding the rather eager goat being held by the boy on the right who is wearing a pair of coveralls. There’s also a younger child standing just behind that boy on the right making for four children and a woman who may possibly be their mother. For a date, I’d be guessing possibly late 1930s or early 1940s based on the older woman’s clothes and the date range of the other photos in the same album. I haven’t solved any mysteries this week, but I did get a chance to share a nearly perfect match to our prompt photo this week, so that’s okay with me!
I’m vaguely familiar with Nederlands, so picked up my universal translator, but the handwriting was too difficult to read. Nice picture to match the prompt, however!
What a great photo! Too bad you don’t know who the people are, though.
Very good match. I noticed the woman and the girls dresses are from the same fabric.
yes, you have a perfect match for the prompt. The little animal looks well fed.
It took me a minute to find the 4th child. Nice photo.
Excellent match! Had to look hard to see the fourth child hiding there – maybe she/he was a bit afraid of the goat, but it looks to be well-tethered.