Working on your summer reading list? Jon Savage, author of Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, the book that Teenage film is based, presents his teen-centric recommends — I read hundreds of books by and about teenagers for the “Teenage” book and these are among my favourites:
Sweetest swimsuits you ever saw! Photographer Harry Mellon Rhoads set up a beachside photo studio to capture bathers in their expressive costumes.
A portrait of Hannah’s gym class in Woltmershausen, Bremen, Germany, 1925.
Future teachers and homemakers looking smart for their class portrait in oversize bows and skinny neckties.
Here are select pics from the newest additions to the Teenage film flickr group.
Jon Savage recently wrote a fascinating article for Vice on the Wandervogel and German youth gangs in the 1930s.
Follow a Dutch high school through ninety years of existence.
Hector & Eric Meow to Lillian & Muriel’s Wow.
Vera Purcell led a group of two other teenage girls, aged 14 and 17, who stole a large quantity of clothing from a Darlinghurst house.