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Message:: [QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 64740, member: 57"]The following information was found in a book I am reading -- "The Pencil was a Prop    In the old days everybody had his picture taken.  The immigrant shed his Old World clothes and the first thing he wanted to do was have his picture taken 'as an American.'  The portrait studios made lots of money.  I remember we had six or seven pictures of various relatives hanging on the wall and each of the subjects wore eyeglasses and a few of them also held a pencil in the right hand.  This is very funny, and yet it is so downright sad that it catches you in the throat just thinking about it; because you realize how desperate was the drive for education, status, making something of oneself.  They had seen doctors, lawyers, and teachers with eyeglasses.  And therefore every picture gallery had a box of assorted styles of eyeglasses.  When the fellow posed you he said, "How about a pair of eyeglasses?" knowing you would be too shy to suggest it yourself.  You acted a bit coy, but you were very grateful to the man, especially when also put a pencil in your hand." side note -- The author was relating things he had observed while he was a child and then a young man living with his family in New York City.  Harry Golden was born in 1902 and died in 1981. Above quoted material from The Best of Harry Golden, World Publishing Company, 1967, pp. 151-152. Just wondering if any of us may have been "influenced" into thinking a certain way about an old photograph which contained "props." I'm certain I have been "influenced" by "props" on occasion. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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