19 Images Of Women Reading From The NYPL’s Digital Collections
In 2015 the New York Public Library made news when they announced that they’d begun a massive image digitization process of their collection. Currently they’ve digitized over 673,951 items and with their really excellent cataloging and search tools you can find some really great things on here. The other day I was playing around in there and started looking up two of my favorite subjects: women and reading. Here for your pleasure are some of my favorite pieces I stumbled across: 19 images that range in mediums, subjects, time periods, and themes (some are sweet, some gorgeous, some cheeky) of women reading.
The Writing Lesson – Morris Shulman
The Good Child – William Redmore Bigg (AKA The Latest Terror In My Nightmares)
Nora endeavouring to read – Eliza Fenwick
Young Woman reading in garden – Francis William Topham
Woman reading a book outside
Young woman reading near lamp
Le Compte – Paul Gavarni
Women and girls reading near swingset where younger children are suspended in hammock like swings, July 1910 – Lewis Wickes Hine
Comfort (I’m putting this image on my vision board)
Heidi reading – Jessie Willcox Smith
French Woman Reading, 1770s – Pierre Thomas Le Clerc
Reading Lady – Sekka Kamisaka
Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee’s Bend, Alabama, May 1939 – Marion Post Wolcott
A Sibyl Reading – Raphael
Reading the Bible in the ‘storefront’ Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois – Russell Lee
Women reading, April 30, 1910, Siegel-Cooper Company. – Lewis Wickes Hine
Young women around tables reading, P.S. 63, Recreation Center, May 1911 – Lewis Wickes Hine
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Woman reading a book, Milanaise, 1400 – Stewart Watson
Boston Sunday Herald
Do you have any other favorite images of women reading? Check out even more classic paintings of people reading here.
