Zes foto's van vrienden van Loentje Onnen bij tenniswedstrijden en met fietsen Possibly 1910 - 1916

Loentje Onnen assembled this album page of photos of friends playing tennis, cycling, and hanging out, probably in the early 1900s. These sepia-toned images, carefully placed on the grey page, really capture the essence of a specific time. I can almost feel the warmth of the summer sun. Loentje and her friends, young and full of life, dressed in their tennis whites, maybe pausing between sets for a quick photo, their faces flushed. I wonder about the conversations they had, the dreams they shared as they posed in June 1910. And it makes me think about the act of collecting, how we assemble fragments of our lives – snapshots, mementos, memories – into something that reflects a world, and it’s that personal, intimate gesture that really resonates, this invitation into someone else’s life, someone else’s world, one hundred years later.