This informal group portrait, taken between approximately 1918 and 1922, captures seven young men and women posed on the porch of a private residence, its wall thickly overgrown with ivy. The women's white lace dresses and the men's dark suits and neckties reflect the fashion conventions of the era, while the relaxed, unstaged arrangement typifies the personal snapshot photography that flourished with the spread of affordable box cameras in the early twentieth century. Part of a private family photo album associated with the Presidio community, the image offers a glimpse of everyday social life among a generation that came of age during and immediately after the First World War. Project: 218577