Children clasp hands while playing a game (Ring Around the Rosie?) in a forest setting as other children look on. Fritz Ette, from the town of Eisleben, Germany, was a commercial photographer with his own studio, and was also active as an amateur. He won a gold medal, possibly for this work “Waldspiele“, at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.

A commercial portrait cabinet card from the artists studio dating sometime after 1904 carried the following verso details: (translated)

FRITZ ETTE

EISLEBEN BAHNHOFSTR. 18

HIGHEST RECOGNITION FROM HIS MAJOR EMPEROR AND KING

AWARDED: STUTTGART 1899

MAINZ 1903

OSNABRÜCK 1904

S’ GRAVENHAGE 1904

WORLD EXHIBITION

ST. LOUIS 1904 GOLD MEDAL

TELEPHONE 167

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