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“How to Make Friends by Telephone” c.1940s
“When my grandparents did some housecleaning a few years ago, they offered me this instructional booklet. I estimate it to be from the 1940’s — it’s from an era when it was still proper to capitalize Telephone, much like the capitalization of Internet today.
“It has scribbles on some of the pages, probably from a relative of mine, maybe my mother when she was learning the etiquette of proper phone usage.”
- Scott Steffens, Contact Sheet
“Pictures from Life In Field And Fen”, 1887
A Fisherman At Home
At Plough, The End Of The Furrow
A Dame's School
A Misty Morning On The North Sea
A Spring Idyl
A Suffolk Dike
A Winter's Morning
An Autumn Pastoral
Confessions
Crusoe's Island, River Granta
Going To Market, A Winter Scene
In the Barley-Sele
On Breydon Water, Sea-Fog Coming Up
On Southwold Marshes
Sunrise At Sea
The Faggot Cutters
The Grafter
The Mangold Harvest
The Poacher
The Stickleback Catcher
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All images from “Pictures from Life in Field and Fen” by Peter Henry Emerson (1887)
Source The British Library via Europeana
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