Forgotten History No.1

Long before Photoshop and other tech wizardry; if a photographer wanted a caption, on his photo he had to employ the services of the local Captionman.

For a shilling, he’d don his blackboard suit, chalk on your chosen caption, and position himself in shot https://twitter.com/bainescards1/status/1290587407893626880

Thankfully things got a bit more legible in the Inter War years thanks to the invention of the A-board.

It’s arrival also meant Captionmen could move quicker, and so get in more shots, than they’d been able to do when in the previously favoured blackboard suit

The downside to this process is that we remain completely uncertain of the events and circumstances that surround any photograph taken in the rain.

There were various attempts at introducing canopies to the A boards, but Captionmen were heavily unionised and it never got through

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