2 thoughts on “Life in a Washington Boarding House: Esther Bubley’s 1943 Photos”
A wonderful view of boarding house living is in the great science fiction film – “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. The setting is Washington, DC. The establishing shots are of DC but was the rest of it filmed there?
The photo curators at the Library of Congress have a multi-page write-up Esther Bubley. It describes how photos like this taken in her free time while working in a D.C. government job shooting microfilm helped launch a career as a professional photographer that eventually included assignments for Life and Ladies’ Home Journal: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/bubleyintro.html
A wonderful view of boarding house living is in the great science fiction film – “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. The setting is Washington, DC. The establishing shots are of DC but was the rest of it filmed there?
The photo curators at the Library of Congress have a multi-page write-up Esther Bubley. It describes how photos like this taken in her free time while working in a D.C. government job shooting microfilm helped launch a career as a professional photographer that eventually included assignments for Life and Ladies’ Home Journal: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/bubleyintro.html