Image of the Week #29: The College Bookstore, 1910s edition
What Is It
An article from the Wellesley News, the student newspaper of Wellesley College, from the late 1910s.Why I Find It Interesting
A student lamenting about the costs of books in the college bookstore? No way! 100 years later and we are still troubled by the exorbitant prices of the college bookstore. Again, things change and yet they don't. Interestingly, the bookstore also ran rental programs which is something else done now, though I'm not even sure they are at half-prices anymore. It makes me think what will the commentary about bookstores 100 years from now.This submission is part of the Image of the Week series. For access to all photos, which are open for reuse under a Creative Commons License, check out the full album on Flickr.
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