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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/23/2010
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Thanks Turi
Abrazo :)
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/23/2010
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Alf shokran habibi ;)
Yes, i discover about the past something new with every new image. I guess it was the same in Memlaka Arabia Saudia ;) but then ... different :)
May God bless you and your loved ones
Harry
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/23/2010
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Dank je en t is beter dan een ex ;)
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/23/2010
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Thanks Srna and with every picture I discover something new.
Harry
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Turi cg
{K:27715} 10/22/2010
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moving past!
kisses
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mousa Jubran
{K:5780} 10/22/2010
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jameeel kateer ya sadeky
A pretty picture.
And captured wonderful. I liked the valuable information for the period.
Explains the modus operandi and how the effort in agricultural work.
Accept my sincere greetings my friend
I hope to be in good health
mousa.
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Riny Koopman
{K:102911} 10/22/2010
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Mooi uit de oude doos Harry,riny
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Srna Stankovic
{K:172232} 10/22/2010
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I love this series you found dear Harry ... so much to see and feel about that period ... great !!!
Hig hugs,
Srna
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/22/2010
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Thanks Nanda,
I realise now it is an unique collection of " business cards" used by the people in the 1900-1930 years to apply for a job. With the start of industrialization and mechanization these images disappeared.
Harry
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Nanda Baba das
{K:78053} 10/22/2010
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Excellent series of portraits my dear friend.
My best wishes,
Nanda
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/22/2010
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Note: more and more I get a feeling that these images were made and used as a kind of business card. You would go to the photo studio in your best outfit, have the image made and share prints of you with friends and potential employers, to promote yourself and solicit/apply for a job.
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Comment by: Jim Loy
Let a history teacher enlighten you.... Early on, in photography, the glass plate negative and even the eary film, was v-eee--rrr---yyy Ssssssllllooooowwwwww to take an image. A person had to sit VERY still for (sometimes a full minute or two) a long time. A smile would look really strange if the person had to hold it for a long time. So a plain, natural face was mandatory... because of the equipment. As the equipment got better, people would smile and look natural..... and then, at THAT moment, the forced smile entered the photographic world. At first it was the equipment... then it was false. Lesson over.
Thanks Jim ! AA for you.
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There is another reason for these youn men and women not to smile. I saw emotions as anger, desinterest, uncertainty.
Typical for the first 2 or 3 decades in the 20th century are poor families with a large number of children. It was before the era of industialisation.
As soon as children finished elementary school, they were sent off to work, starting at the age of 12-14 years. Every penny, cent, guilder was welcome in the parential family to provide food and clothing for all of them.
Employment was available at landowners and farmers. A large farm would provide work for several maids and young men.
Life was as hard as the mentality of the employer. In worst case they would have to work theirs *sses of, they were fed with leftovers and crumbs, had a seat in a cold unheated kitchen in the evening and sleep in the stable or in special rooms for the girls and young ladies.
Work was 6 days a week, only one week off (holiday) in a year and the contract would last from may till may next year. If the landlord did not like the attitude of the worker, or the girls would not respond to abuse as e.g. sexual intimidation by the landowners son, the employee was fired in a second.
Servants in aristocracy or city upper class usually got better treatment, some even had diner with the employers family.
Starting 1930's industry provided work for the young ladies and mechanisation took over the work at the farm.
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Resources provided by Iris TouchingLove
-Familieportret. "Huishouden van Oom Jan van Esch". Esch, 1870.
-Vrouwelijk huishoudelijk personeel in Nederland. Bron: wikipedia.org
-‘Dienstboden’ uit het befaamde en meest verkochte boek over de etiquette ‘Hoe hoort het eigenlijk’ uit 1939 van Amy Groskamp-Ten Have.
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