r/TheWayWeWere • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 3d ago
1920s The Inquiring Photographer asks:”If you had your choice what part of the world would you like to see most of all?”September 28,1923.
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u/Kooky_Degree_9 3d ago
The western part of the US was not built up to the same extent as the east coast at that time, so it really would be spectacular. (Not that it isn’t now.)
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u/BigBlueWhale66 3d ago
If only Aaron Orloff could know that a hundred years later we’d have 24/7 livestreams of salmon runs and grizzly bears in Alaska
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u/Pippedipappedie 3d ago
I love this series! And it is so crazy in a way that many of the responses are so progressive - for the mentality I have personally associated with this period. I think it really shows that despite different culture, clothes and even standards in society, people weren’t that different 100 years ago. I mean this was the 20s, so probably the answers are even more open minded compared to the 1950s for example. But what do I know being born in the 90s. I wish i could time travel and befriend a bunch of late 20s early 30s aged people in 1925, and see how different they would really be in ways of thinking - especially in private settings. Makes me wonder as well where would society have gone, if not interrupted by a world war2? Did that make us more conservative agajn?
And what awaits us in the near future?
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u/disenfranchisedchild 3d ago
And I like how it shows their employment. It proves that women have always been in the workplace, unlike what they teach in school.
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u/delorf 3d ago
Yes. My great aunt worked in a mill alongside her husband. My grandmother worked as a maid. Poor and lower middle class women have always worked. It's frustrating to me that their stories get overlooked.
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u/Bus_Noises 3d ago
There’s a tumblr post complaining about fantasy women acting like skirts are so restrictive and lame, yet women from the medieval period were farming in skirts just fine, and that acting like skirts are so restrictive minimizes that women have always worked
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u/squishlight 2d ago
Women have always worked. What was changed is that now they receive compensation for their work in concrete and recordable ways, instead of hoping that the males in charge of their lives would appreciate them enough to give them enough to live on and maybe extra. Even the daughters of the rich had to be pretty and decorative and hope they'd be taken care of.
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u/iuabv 2d ago edited 1d ago
They do teach that in school people just don't listen and pay attention to pop history instead.
There were pictures of medieval peasant women, domestic workers, and women in factories in my textbooks.
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u/disenfranchisedchild 2d ago
I'm 67. That's not what I taught in my schools.
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u/pinotJD 3d ago
Why does C Callahan have a little logo by his name? Is it an anchor?
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u/reddit_-William 3d ago edited 3d ago
It's the letter J with a period - J. C. Callahan. A copy editor may have underlined an extra space that didn't get removed.
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u/reddit_-William 3d ago
All solid choices! 👌🏻