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The quiet joy of watching other people knit

These photos are utterly charming

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by Jackie Friedman
November 14, 2016

Sojourner Truth, ca. 1880, sitting at a table with her knitting and a book.

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)"It is mesmerizing, even

Photo postcard, France, ca. 1918.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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High school boys knitting for soldiers during World War I, Cooperstown, New York, 1918.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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Mary Pickford knitting for the Red Cross, 1925.

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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Photograph by J. Peterson, ca. 1939, Shetland Museum and Archives.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

Taxicab driver knitting between fares, London, ca. 1940.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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Ca. 1940.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

Knitting for the troops at the beauty salon, London, 1940.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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Nurses knit for soldiers, Melbourne, Australia, ca. 1940.

(Courtesy of Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2

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Photograph by John Vachon, Washington, D.C., 1941.

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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Doris Day knitting on the set of A Touch of Mink, 1962.

(People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)

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