The little girl’s dress and cap appear to be handmade from flour sacks, and her shoes appear to be handmade and cut down from bigger shoes.
Is the cap hanging up a miner’s protective cap with goggles?
I too find the scalloping heartbreaking: determined to make the house pretty, someone - presumably the woman of the house - has carefully cut scallops into the newspaper ‘blind’ like the blinds of middle-class homes.
