Monday Morning Mirth
In the late 19th & early 20th Century, thousands of young women moved to urban centers to find careers in business industries.
They wore a uniform of sorts: blouses, skirts & large hats (especially those tremendous straw numbers, the Boater)!
Something else, unexpectedly they had in common?
Reading while walking (and I thought that was a smart phone 21st century phenom)!
…these candid photos are by the chief cartoonist for Punch magazine, Edward Linley Sambourne, circa 1906…
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