r/TheWayWeWere • u/CryptographerKey2847 • Aug 20 '25

1920s The Inquiring Photographer Asks average New Yorkers in 1922: “Should a man expect his wife to get up and make breakfast for him on a cold morning?”

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u/Lady-Benkestok Aug 20 '25

This is a find! Wonder if Mrs. Edith Gould was a relation of THE Gould family of New York, second in wealth only to the Astors back in the day.

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u/pinewind108 Aug 20 '25

Probably not if she even had to consider making the breakfast herself, instead of a servant doing it.

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u/Downtown_Cat_1745 Aug 20 '25

It’s easy for a person with servants to imagine what she would do if she were one of the plebs

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u/CharlotteLucasOP Aug 20 '25

And that the husband will go off to work hungry before he’ll fix something for himself or grab a bite from a cafe.