Reading is always an everyday great habit. Here is an interesting collection of amazing vintage photos of readers before and in the early 1900s.
Relaxing in the Dead Sea in the early 20th century |
The beautiful Lewis Carroll, aged 25, 2nd June 1857 |
The ghost of the reader, 1902 |
The walking library, London, England |
Tourists at the Frauenkirche, Nürnberg, Germany, 1904 |
Two beautiful ladies reading together, 1920s |
A boy sits reading in a bombed bookstore, London, 8 October 1940 |
A donkey and a girl reading together |
A pretty girl reading on the edge of chair |
A young girl reading on a ladder |
An odd place to read, 1915 |
Beautiful geishas reading together |
Children selecting their books at the East Ham Public Library, 21 April 1934 |
Cute dog standing with back legs to read newspaper with its owner |
Family reading time |
Infantry pioneers reading newspaper on the Western Front in October 1916 |
Little girl reading with elephant |
Relaxing in the Dead Sea, 1916 |
Two cute children, 1908 |
Reading in the roof garden at Adelaide House after lunch, 12 June 1937 |
Reading the newspaper in the garden, 1914 |
Reading to monkey |
Reading together on the porch, July 1922 |
Isn’t a bit strange that your captions describe the women in the images using adjectives such as “beautiful/young/pretty” but as per the man you write in a straight forward manner, like “boy sitting/relaxing in the Dead Sea/with the owner”.
ReplyDeleteWhy couldn’t it be for example “young boy/handsome man as his cute dog standing with back legs to ‘read’ newspaper”.
Doesn’t it sound weird using adjectives to describe a picture with a man in it? But natural when it’s a woman.
Just an observation… great curation by the way.
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