5/ "by today's standards" The style of the day, in casual wear / work wear, was lapels and collars. The clothes were warm, coarsely woven, and rugged enough for work. The social significance at the time was not "formalwear". https://twitter.com/twkiter/status/1346811068115546113 …
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16/ So for a working poor person, that might be 3 weeks' wages. How many blue collar, lower middle class / upper middle class people in 1930, do you think, worked for 4 months, saved ALL the discretionary income after rent and food, and blew it on one camera ?
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17/ ...and then worked for another month to save money for one roll of film and 16 prints?
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18/ meh when I link to a fairly comprehensive source, where the guy has clearly done a deep dive and has collected hard numbers, that's not ABSOLUTE proof ... but it has a lot more evidentiary weight than "but the popular myth is ____"https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1346817708801843200 …
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20/ I'm not engaging in nihlism. I'm disagreeing with a bad argument, and providing data. https://twitter.com/twkiter/status/1346819265110962178 …
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I think this is incorrect or Brit sources are wrong on this. "...initial price of $1 (equivalent to $31 in 2019) along with the low price of Kodak roll film and processing, ...." The brownie is famous for making photography universal. Although I'd note so is the $900 iphone
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/40061221?mag=how-the-brownie-camera-made-everyone-a-photographer&seq=8#metadata_info_tab_contents … Page 8 has a 1900 kodak ad targeted at kids and indicating a dollar for the camera and a few cents for film. The first photo booths charged 25¢ for 7 pics, 1925. That's what, a buck apiece in modern terms? About what we pay https://tedium.co/2017/06/01/photo-processing-history-mainstream-phenomenon/amp …
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