Reading stuff

Eskimo reading Saturday Evening Post in the arctic region, c1913 -nd
[photographer unknown]

serie: #Most improbable!

via Library of Congress

bookpatrol:

Reading Glasses for Bedtime

Hamblin glasses. A pair of spectacles especially designed for reading in bed. England, 1936.

Image Nationaal Archief

Also appears in Tim Carmody’s piece 10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books at the Atlantic

bookporn:

oldfilmsflicker:carrousel:(via meanjanine)

Charles Dickens reading to his two daughters…

ihatemusic1943:

Charles Dickens reading to his two daughters, “Mamie” and Kate (standing), at his Gad’s Hill mansion, 1865.

A Gallery of Cultural Icons #24

Reading a book on park bench, Kislovodsk (Russia) 1941 -by Margaret Bourkde-White

via Life