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Bayreuth Market, 1904
Submitted by billinmn on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 10:46am.
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One of a series of images taken in Europe in 1904 by an unknown photographer. Scanned from the nitrocellulose negative. These women are possibly itinerant agricultural workers looking for employment; they don't seem to be selling anything. View full size.
Cop on the beat.
Submitted by jimmythekid on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 8:49pm.
This photo has a lot of pith if you look for it. The interesting thing is the policeman walking his beat around the square, in his spiked helmet and brass buttons. The Kaiser's Germany truly ran on obeyed rules and well defined cultural roles--what Marxists call hegemonies. Imperial Germany was social sandstone: complex societal roles you could depend on laid down in layers. It was a "buttoned down" society by popular consent. In less than twenty years it all collapsed. By 1921 urban women of the age of those in the photograph would be eating restaurant waste out of garbage cans in city alleyways. Then along came Hitler.
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