Good thing they put illustratedfarce.com (or the somesuch) on all the pictures they take from other sources or we'd never know where they come from. posted by peacay at 1:52 PM on January 13 [1 favorite]
I'm pretty sure that this was a standard high school text -- my Dad had a later edition of it (bought used, no doubt), which was passed down through his brothers and then back to him again. Huge tome.
It's very strange to see these lost worlds, which aren't all that distant, however great the changes are.
For the Dutch pictures, they show a life my great-grandparents, and even grandparents would have known quite well, despite being a bit later than 1906. I myself had a rare glimpse of women in traditional costume (in a non-tourist-trap setting) as late as 1981-2, one being a neighbour of my grandparents in the isolated village they chose for retirement, and another, a total stranger in full getup and klomp, walking the aisles of a huge modern supermarket, just as my parents were buying me new shoes for school. Those women must have been in their seventies or eighties then. Which is the point I guess I'm making, that as vanished as these worlds are, as irretrievably gone, there were still traces of it in my own living memory, which seems very strange indeed. Huh.
I agree. What an absolute waste of effort to mark all of the photos with the name of the website. This sophmoric tactic will be the only thing remembered about illustratedpast.com. posted by Sparkticus at 2:39 PM on January 13 [1 favorite]
The pictures don't come up on my device. I Like looking at old pictures like that. posted by Katjusa Roquette at 1:30 AM on January 14
The ladies hats are so uniform, they start to look like a Dutch version of a burka. No wonder foreign adventure was so popular amongst Europeans! Anything to get away from the repressive environment of 19th century Christiandom! posted by Goofyy at 3:05 AM on January 14
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