Sepia Saturday # 186 - chorus girls

A call on Sepia Saturday gets me going, out of my summer sloth.

According to this week's prompt: "This fine figure of a woman is either ‘Boadecea or Mother England’ or possibly Britannia. You can choose; or go with armour, helmets, shields, fancy dress, pantomime, theatricals, warlike women or big sticks".  

I thought of chorus girls, from an earlier age. and went to my favorite on-line resource, American Memory of the Library of Congress.

 

From the archives of the Chicago Daily News: "Full-length portrait of Marie Saxon wearing a devil costume, standing with two women, with three chorines, also known as chorus girls, standing behind her. Text on image reads: Miss Marie Saxon and Chorines."  There is no further explanation for this picture and I am unable to answer any of your questions, sorry.  I have plenty myself!

 

This is a post for Sepia Saturday - joining rather late this week!

 

Viridian

 

Sepia Saturday 162

Welcome to my contribution to Sepia Saturday. Gosh if you wait until Saturday you are at the end of the list!
The prompt image this week is of Western Union bicycle messengers.  What caught my eye was that young boy, with bare feet, and it got me thinking of other boys working, in that time period of the early 1900's.

August 1904: Image of a newsboy holding newspapers and standing next to a paper stand on a commercial street in Chicago, Illinois. A pedestrian is visible in the foreground.

 

From the Chicago Daily News archive, part of American Memory at the Library of Congress.

 

As this collection points out, selling newspapers was one of the few jobs young boys could get.  Some significantly added to their families' income.  On the other hand, many of the boys worked on the street instead of going to school, and child labor laws did not exist in this era.

 

See information about the work and photographs of Lewis Hine for more information.

 

Still, this photograph is a window into early Chicago.  I love the outfit and hat that the woman is wearing!

 

Viridian

A Seafood store for Sepia Saturday 161

I am rejoining Sepia Saturday, hosted by Alan, after a long absence. The prompt image is of an oyster store in Raleigh, North Carolina.   It made me wonder if my old source of Chicago Daily News photos at American Memory at the Library of Congress might have something appropriate.  I found a picture of a sweet cat that way.

 

Fish shop worker holding a preserved fish that is as long as a man outside the Charles W. Triggs Oysters shop. (circa 1904)

 

Oh how lucky I am!  Somewhere in the Loop of Chicago was this fish shop, with preserved fish, a champion-sized lobster, and the ubiquitous barrels.  And my goodness, that lobster is balancing on the mounted head of a hammerhead shark????

 

See what other edible goodies are on offer at Sepia Saturday 161.

 

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Viridian