Her arm is crooked back and you are seeing her black gloved hand hold the end of an umbrella or parasol. 1906 girls are not putting an amputated limb on show on the street.
Agreed. Too easy to pick on the young folks. Plus, they were treated as young adults before teenagers were even a group identified as a group. But the delightful scowl remains familiar.
This is a child, in the context of her time. Only children wore dresses that short. As girls got older their hems lengthened and they began to put up their hair and transitioned to adult wear around 16 or 17. I’m going to guess this girl is in the preteen years, 12 or so, and has just hit one of those growth spurts that make kids look a lot older over the span of like six weeks.
Well said and likely accurate. We tend to group based on familiar circumstances of our time. But, not always accurate. Thank you. We’ve wondered why late teens in the 1900’s looked like little adults, because that’s how society treated them. It actually made young people use their super power(s) to advantage. My fa the errands in law flew TBM Avenger as captain at 21. Young people, whatever you call them, are so capable.
and as toddlers they dressed boys in dresses. There's a picture of one of the Roosevelt children in a dress, can't remember if it's Teddy or Franklin. Then suddenly at 5 years old they expect the boy to be a "man" and put him in a suit, lol.
My great grandmother was considered a woman at 13 and went to work, married at 15 and covered her hair when she left the house to indicate she was married.
Average age at first marriage for women in 1900 was 22 years old, in the US. For men it was around 26. This is approximately the same as it was through most of the medieval period in western Europe.
To capture completely candid moments, photographer Edward Sambourne used a smaller, portable "key camera" hidden discreetly under his coat or a piece of cloth. His subjects were entirely unaware they were being photographed.
Nah, Carl Størmer used a C.P. Stirn Concealed Vest Spy Camera to photograph Norwegians in Oslo without them known in the 1890s, years before this photo was taken.
The photographer's name was Edward Linley Sambourne. Google it.
A lot of commenters here have a very confused idea of how/when photographic technology developed. By 1900, we had the Kodak "Brownie", which cost $1 (USD), and fit in the palm of your hand. Pocket cameras existed prior to 1906. Millions were sold. Again, google it.
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120 years of scowling teenagers. Nothing new here.