After seven months of neglecting this little space on the ‘interweb’ (a site that I spent just under a year carving out) I have decided that I am done avoiding.
Archive for the ‘women’ Category
This post is about those all import skills of domestic life that have defined the educational paths of so many young woman throughout history. Bellow are some images showing such training and demonstrations, documenting the different skills and techniques of various time periods. Given the importance of cooking in any family and the females traditional [...]
I was researching costumes in the early 1900s when I stumbled on a remarkable find. Although I had originally wanted to post about costumes in general, the astounding nature of these images made me realize that there was no way to present them appropriately unless I devoted an entire post to them. So all of [...]
So far in this blog I have paid tribute to a variety of subjects, using images to discuss history and society. These posts have used photographs as the jumping off point to look at the world, past and present. I would like to focus today on the process that makes this perception of our surroundings [...]
