I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. Over on Square America (a great archive of snapshots and vernacular photography), there is a collection titled What Was On (1957).

48 Photos of women on TV taken late at night by a lonely photographer in 1957. Encrusted with 50 year old dust and emulsion the photos of women from melodramas and late-night talk shows are not only a record of one person’s peculiar obsession but also a virtual catalog of the kind of roles women played in the popular entertainment of the era.

Constance Powling, 1957 (front)
© Unknown Photographer

Constance Powling, 1957 (back)
© Unknown Photographer

Very interesting and really sort of heart breaking. See more images here.

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