My mother got me one of the items on my Christmas list: a book featuring animals on real photo postcards, Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935
.Some of the reproductions are wonderful: animals adopted as mascots by armed service personnel, pets, and so on. Others are more disturbing, chronicling our less noble uses of animals. (I think we are the beast; the animals represent beauty.)
I haven't read the text yet, but I look forward to spending more time exploring this book.
1 comment:
How very interesting. I hadn't heard of this book.
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