Ursula Hemingway
Ursula was born in 1902, the third child and second daughter of the Hemingways, and she died in 1966. These photographs show she is an active infant whose gender is ambiguous, but she becomes more reserved and feminine as she gets older.
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Ursula at 4 weeks old, her gender remains unspecified by her androgynous clothing. [1902]
Ursula is playful, maintaining a childish freedom that she would not have as an older girl and a woman.
Ursula at 11 months.
Ursula wears pants and dark, masculine clothing. This demonstrates the unimportance of gender specification in young children.
Again, Ursula runs and plays with the same freedom given to male children.
Her white dress symbolizes innocence without gender specificity.
Ursula amuses herself in a sandbox. She looks more reserved than in previous images. Though she is practically alone with nature, she is still constrained, by the sandbox itself.
Ursula is pictured here with her parents.
Ursula is very passive as she sits in the arms of her mother. They both wear white.
This picture shows a more masculine side of Ursula, as she plays with a canoe on Lake Walloon.