g i r l h a t t a n

g i r l h a t t a n

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

old school.


i am so, so, so obsessed with the library of congress digital collection of prints and photographs. this image is from 1899!

description:
[Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia]


i know that the image above is black and white…
and you can't tell what those ensembles really look like…
and i am definitely NOT saying that things were better back then…
but isn't it fairly safe to say that the image below constitutes a downgrade?

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