Circa 1925. Baker Mr

Circa 1925. Baker Mr. Sillitoe has constructed a delivery van with the drivers cab and the van in the shape of loaves of bread. Made around 1925, it is the kind of image that turns a date in a history book into something you can actually see.

The 1920s roared with new money and new habits. Radio broadcasting began, cars became affordable for working families, jazz filled dance halls, and hemlines and haircuts shortened in ways that scandalized the older generation. News photography boomed alongside the tabloid press.

Most photography of the period chased celebrities and headlines, which makes surviving images of daily routine all the more precious. This is what the world actually looked like when nobody thought it was worth remembering.