Original vintage black-and-white snapshot photograph from 1938 featuring a neat handwritten black ink inscription along the bottom left white border reading: "7 years." The image captures 7-year-old Edgar Leon "Sonny" / "Ed" McShane (b. Dec. 22, 1930) seated confidently in a dark woven wicker child's rocking chair inside his Waukegan, Illinois parlor, wearing a crisp white collared shirt with chest pocket trim and dark trousers. Dramatic indoor flash/lamp lighting casts a bold shadow across the plaster wall behind him, while a patterned floral parlor carpet and a small wheeled toy or truck peek out beside the chair on the right.
Provenance: Discovered directly within the personal family estate archive of longtime Waukegan, Illinois residents Edgar Lee McShane (1901–1987) and Dorothy A. Moxey McShane (1904–1995), and their son, award-winning Waukegan photographer Edgar Leon "Sonny" / "Ed" McShane (b. 1930), encompassing family photographs from the McShane, Moxey, and Shultis lines. The reverse retains heavy black scrapbook album mounting paper remnants, light adhesive toning, and minor surface thinning from album removal.
• Era: Circa 1938
• Measurements: Please refer to the grid in the photos for exact dimensions
• Condition: Fair to good vintage condition with strong tonal contrast and clean front image; exhibits wide white borders with light age toning, gentle vertical paper wave/curve, minor corner wear, and black scrapbook album paper remnants, yellow adhesive stains, and small areas of paper surface thinning on the reverse.

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