Everyday Women of the Golden Era

[Audrey Horne]

From the Library of Congress:

I apologize for filling up the thread, there are just so many great pictures!

 

[cherry lips]

Post away, Audrey! You've chosen great pics.

 

[ClaraB]

What a great thread!
I found this at Square America:

Seems there was a time when you could hire a photographer to photograph you on the street so that you could see yourself in motion or "as others see you." Many more photographs of this nature can be found here.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Great shots everyone -- keep 'em coming. There's some great resources on line, and hopefully we can get as many of them as possible in this thread.

Here's another batch from Life:

Grocery shopping, 1942

More grocery shopping, 1942

Business school, 1945

War workers on break, 1943

Mothers and kids, 1940

WAVES officers, 1944

 

[Laura Chase]

Oh ClaraB, the link you posted is wonderful!

 

[Audrey Horne]

Post away, Audrey! You've chosen great pics. However I can't see the last ones from The Library of Congress at all

Is anyone else having this problem? I can see them fine.

 

[goldwyn girl]

Is anyone else having this problem? I can see them fine.

All I see are little blue boxes

 

[Miss RM]

Grandma and Grandpa taking a stroll in 1938

 

[Fletch]

Lizzie please tap a toe if this isn't appropriate - or appropriate from a bifurcated member - but here goes.

Swimming class, Marjorie Webster School of Physical Education, Washington, D.C., 1930.
From shorpy.com. Click to enlarge.

Note how the faces are all in focus, but the rest of each swimmer is discreetly out of focus. The old bellows view cameras could be manipulated to focus down a receding plane. The rest was just careful attention to focal depth (it helps that they're all leaning forward).

 

[LizzieMaine]

File Not Found on that Shorpy shot -- corrected the link and now it works.

Audrey -- I can get the LOC shots to work on my desktop computer (Safari) but not on my laptop (Netscape), so for the folks having problems, maybe try another browser?

 

[Audrey Horne]

File Not Found on that Shorpy shot -- tried to correct the link and couldn't get it to work!

Audrey -- I can get the LOC shots to work on my desktop computer (Safari) but not on my laptop (Netscape), so for the folks having problems, maybe try another browser?

Interesting because I use Safari. I wonder if there's some way to prevent the problem though.

 

[Laura Chase]

I use Safari, but I only see little blue squares too.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Very strange -- it's now not working for me on my work machine, which uses IE. I went into the original post and tried pasting the links directly into my browser, and that only brought up a "File Not Found" notice, as if the server was being blocked.

Any computer-knowledgable folks have any theories on this? They're great pics!

 

[Audrey Horne]

Now the LOC server is down for me and I see the blue boxes too. Maybe that's why? Let me know if this works (from Flickr).

 

[Fletch]

File Not Found on that Shorpy shot -- corrected the link and now it works.

Still doesn't work for me...wonder if shorpy has some anti-hotlink feature in place. It would have to be a weird kind that actually allows the pic to display, but only once.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fletch -- now it's gone from here, too. Very odd. Maybe you should just post the link in URL form -- it's a great shot.

Audrey -- the Flickr shots come thru fine for me. Very nice!!

Technical difficulties or no, keep em coming, folks!

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

These pictures feature my Granny, who was a fashion devotee and a hairdresser. These are rather more dressed up, and I do hope to scan some more candid ones in soon:

(That's my mum in the last one!)

This is from a fab set on Flickr:

(The rest here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/sets/72157611218602510/)

 

[Warbaby]

My mother (with yrs trly), 1948:

 

[Lotta Little]

Everyone looks so put-together in these photos, I love it. Ah, style! How we've missed you!

 

[cherry lips]

This is from a fab set on Flickr:

(The rest here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/sets/72157611218602510/)

Fleur thanks for that link! My heart took a leap...