Artist Training

A dip into the LIFE mystery photos (ie, those that are uncaptioned, collected only by subject). These come with the heading "Pai. Train. Royal. College. ". So, painters training at the Royal College [of Art, in London] presumably, and that seems to cover it, more or less. A lot of them are from the 20s, based especially on the hair (the majority of the women have very 1920s bobs), although I'm not sure if they were all taken at the same time; some look rather 40s or early 50s. Anyway though, as always with the LIFE mystery photos, the main point is to just enjoy some swell pictures!

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Camping in Former Days

From the LIFE "mystery photo" archives: people camping! These come without captions or dates; I think the majority are the 1910s-40s.

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It's very important to keep your hair combed and greased, even while camping. Source

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Gotta take the record player to the campsite. [I should have flipped this; sorry] Source

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Mothering Sunday

Happy mother's day to those of you in the UK!

Absolutely adorable photographs of mothers and their children. These are unfortunately without captions ("LIFE mystery photographs"), but certainly cross the decades and countries. So lovely. 

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