Afternoon tea 1900's ~ real photograph post card

One of the joys of collecting vintage photographs is making up the story to go with them.
There is no way for me to verify this but I speculate that this a tea party of 2 friends and their daughters. One family has sleek dark hair and the other blonde curls.
My favorite figure in the group is the dark haired daughter who has put on all her broaches for the photograph. I count 6!
The housemaid looks the most comfortable person in the group to be having her picture taken.

This lovely lady has a very "modern" face, I think it's the style of the bangs. This photograph dates from the early 1900s.

She is young and this photograph might easily have been taken for her "coming out".

I especially like the clear and direct way that she looks into the camera. From the very first time I saw this young lady, I felt that I would have enjoyed sitting down to a cup of tea with her. She looks like she has some good conversation in her.

I love the miniature "teapot for one" on the table beside her. She obviously takes a bit of cream in her tea but there's no sugar bowl. Sugar goes in and out of fashion with tea drinkers.

Here is a professional photograph of the children of a family early 1900s

The older brother looks patient but anxious to be done with it all.

The little sister on the other hand seems to be enjoying herself tremendously. I do hope that the doll is hers and not a studio prop because they'd have had trouble taking it away from her.

I love her Buster Brown hair style and his Peter Pan collar.

From the look of his jacket sleeves, the brother has just gone through a growth spurt. Perhaps they took the jacket out for the photograph and only then realized how much he'd grown. There would have been no time to get a new jacket before the picture was taken.