18 thoughts on “Me And My Pal”

1. What a cute picture. I hope you’re able to find out who they are someday. At least you have an idea.

   1. I’m afraid my idea is about all I will have. Unless one of their descendants drops by.

2. The woman has a lovely haircut. The little boy looks a bit unsettled, like perhaps a Halloween ghoul is approaching.

   1. I think her hair is in a french roll sort of hair do with the wave in front. He does look a bit skeptical.

3. The little boy looks a bit camera-shy – no way is he going to smile. You wouldn’t think someone would write that if they weren’t one of the two in the photo, but I guess it’s a caption rather than a label.

   1. The handwriting looks like my grandmother’s writing and it definitely isn’t her and the little boy isn’t one of her sons.

4. I’ve seen that look on my grandson’s face. It looks as though she’s trying to persuade him to smile for the camera. The cameraman obviously gave up and took it anyway.

5. I wonder if they were near neighbors whose names you could check in census records. The woman is lovely.

   1. I have been checking other photos and think I have found them. Will post the other photos and a link here later today.

6. A lovely touching photograph, and the handwritten caption gives it more poignancy. I hope you find the answer as to who they are.

7. What a wonderful photo! The porch columns, the rail, the woven work covering the side of the porch — lovely woman and sweet little boy (what’s going on in his mind, eh?); I can feel the sunshine…

8. Sometimes the only name necessary for posterity is “cute”!

9. Her little pal is unconvinced. Hope you figure out who they are!

10. Mike Brubaker is right. And maybe publishing it here will find an identification for those people. It’s happened before.

11. I wonder why she just called him her “pal” and didn’t name him.

    1. She and the rest of the household knew who he was and I think it was just a “cute” title for the photo. There are more than one photo where the person isn’t identified, or maybe they are but there is a title, “Guess Who?” “Shell and his pal”

12. The way the write has used quote marks makes me wonder if the writer perhaps were referring to the 1933 Laurel and Hardy movie “Me and my Pal” . Do you think that fits the time frame ?

    1. No, it was in the early 1920s. Maybe the title to that film came about because people used the word “pal” more often then. I have several other photos where a child is refered to as “pal”.

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