Dagenham in East London doesn’t hit the news cycle all that often. It did when US motor company Ford moved its car plant to Dagenham and again when it was closed. Posters bearing the town’s name appeared when the singer Morrissey released the song Dagenham Dave in 1995. The cover showed a picture of Dagenham-born … Continue reading "A Spot Of Business And Walk Around Dagenham In The Early 1990s" The post A Spot Of Business And Walk Around Dagenham In The Early 1990s appeared first on Fl...| Flashbak
“Every face is an experience; in particular, the rather unremarkable, unattractive ones gain an unforeseen beauty” – Helga Paris, Women At Work In 1984, German photographer Helga Paris (21 May 1938 – 5 February 2024) spent several weeks at the state-owned clothing factory VEB Treff-Modelle in East Berlin photographing female employees and their … Continue reading "Helga Paris: Women at Work – The ‘Unforeseen Beauty’ of East German Factory Workers In 1984" The post Helga ...| Flashbak
These satisfying alphabets are from the 1900 and 1910 editions of The New Zanerian Alphabets, archived at The Weinberg Memorial Library’s Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection, an extensive collections of American ornamental penmanship from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1888 by Charles P. Zaner as the Zanerian School of Penmanship. … Continue reading "Alphabets From The Zanerian School of Penmanship, c.1910" The post Alphabets From The Zanerian School of ...| Flashbak