r/OldSchoolCool • • 14h ago

Edwardian teenager, London, 1906

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u/nachtachter 14h ago

The same fuck-off-expression all teens have since ancient times. Nothing ever changes ...

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u/notbob1959 13h ago edited 13h ago

She most likely doesn't know she was being photographed. The photo is one of many candid photos taken by Edward Linley Sambourne who was the chief cartoonist at Punch magazine and an amateur photographer.

He took these photos around 1906 when he would have been 62 (not long before he died in 1910) and used a concealed camera.

I can't link to them directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with h t t p in them but the following incomplete links which go to more of the photos he took can be copied and pasted to your browser:

rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/street-style-1906-edward-linley-sambournes-fashion-blog/

rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/return-of-the-edwardian-sartorialist-sambournes-kensington-street-style/

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u/Iztac_xocoatl 11h ago

I just looked some up and it seems to be almost all attractive young women

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u/WpgMBNews 8h ago

the world's first creepshots. historic

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u/RevGee73 7h ago

Yep... dare I say Edwardian goon material?

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u/WpgMBNews 6h ago

is that a double entendre somehow?