St Louis Sight-Seeing Automobiles

Souvenir ticket from St. Louis. 

 

Parks--Boulevards--Historical Points

"SEEING ST. LOUIS"

from specially designed and equipped

sight-seeing automobiles

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Tickets $1.00 The Round Trip, on sale at all railroad ticket

offices, news stands, hotels, and at our offices, 1805 Market street and

S.E. Cor. Eighth and Olive streets.

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The Autos can be chartered for day or evening rides,

theatre box parties, receptions, conventions, etc.

Phone, Main 5095

Better Sox Knitting Mills, 1921

In 1921, if you wanted to purchase special products such as socks made from "Pure Japan Thread Silk" you probably didn't buy them in Dresden, TN.  You wrote to the company and they would send you thread samples and pricing information.  And that's just what Charles H. Moran did.  He liked the company so much he kept the envelope, thread sample and order form.  Interestingly enough the thread samples look brand new! 

Boy in Formal Kilt Attire

As with most things in the Victorian Era the kilt for boys became fashionable after Queen Victoria began dressing her sons in kilts. However, the appeal of the kilt probably was special to American mothers who were not ready to see their darling sons don long pants or even long kneepants yet.  It was commonplace back then for young boys and girls to wear dresses.  The kilt filled the gap between dresses and long kneepants as did Lord Fauntleroy and sailor suits. 

 

According to Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide, Aschylus William Monfort  was a photographer in Burlington from 1865 to about 1881 but he and his partner George Hill photographed well into the 1890's which is when I think our Kilt Boy was taken.

 

It's very possible this young fellow is a distant Cowardin relative from Iowa.