Now joined by sister Donna, left, and a small boy (presumably a neighbor) identified only as “Cushman boy,” Myrl and Dad face the camera.
The notation with the address provides me with one of the few clues regarding the family’s moves while renting before they finally bought the house I always knew as Grandpa and Grandma’s.
Is that a fireman’s hat on Dad? Or something else?
Orphan George 
It looks like a fireman’s hat to me, and that is what I thought before I read the post.
Could well be …