Jonah. The gadabout. The dedicated dilettante.

Search Jonah’s pockets and find these items:
A monogrammed handkerchief.
The "Wyndham" pocket-knife.
A Penguin copy of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
A ha’penny.
A leather pouch containing ten subway tokens.

Luis. The flaneur.

In Luis’ many pockets, among other things, are these items:
A ticket to the 1919 World’s Fair.
An unopened bottle of “Moxie” soda pop.
A ragged page of lyric verse.
A cheese sandwich, sliced lengthwise, in a ziplock bag.
A spying-glass.

Anna. The seeker of curiosities.

Anna carries the following things with her:
A book of the lives of the saints.
A silver thimble.
A crumpled print depicting St. Francis of Assisi among the birds.
A small bottle of smelling-salts.

Stefan. The student. The artist.

Stefan’s shoulder-bag and pockets contain these items:
A university student card.
Ten paintbrushes, bound by an elastic band.
A can of silver spray-paint.
Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair.
A walkman.

Amelia. The alchemist. The apothecarist.

Anna carries with her:
Ten little bottles of brightly-colored fluids.
A receipt from Zellers.
A bundle of strange-looking twigs.
A tortoiseshell pocket-magnifier.

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The images for this page were furnished by Harrod's Stores 1895 Catalogue. Text was supplied by Mark Slutsky.