The Fairy Drawings

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The girls attach the cutout fairy drawings to hat pins to make them stand up in the grass. And then Francis stood behind posing and Elsie took the photograph. The amount of effort that's gone into planning this, the meticulous detail of the drawings. I mean, yeah, they do look like drawings, but having said that, they're really, really good drawings.

In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths. It was the first photograph she’d ever taken — and it became the source of a mystery that lasted for most of the 20th century.

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