Reading is always an everyday great habit. Here is an interesting collection of amazing vintage photos of readers before and in the early 1900s.
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Relaxing in the Dead Sea in the early 20th century |
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The beautiful Lewis Carroll, aged 25, 2nd June 1857 |
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The ghost of the reader, 1902 |
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The walking library, London, England |
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Tourists at the Frauenkirche, Nürnberg, Germany, 1904 |
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Two beautiful ladies reading together, 1920s |
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A boy sits reading in a bombed bookstore, London, 8 October 1940 |
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A donkey and a girl reading together |
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A pretty girl reading on the edge of chair |
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A young girl reading on a ladder |
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An odd place to read, 1915 |
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Beautiful geishas reading together |
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Children selecting their books at the East Ham Public Library, 21 April 1934 |
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Cute dog standing with back legs to read newspaper with its owner |
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Family reading time |
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Infantry pioneers reading newspaper on the Western Front in October 1916 |
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Little girl reading with elephant |
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Relaxing in the Dead Sea, 1916 |
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Two cute children, 1908 |
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Reading in the roof garden at Adelaide House after lunch, 12 June 1937 |
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Reading the newspaper in the garden, 1914 |
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Reading to monkey |
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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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