The photographers aimed their lenses through a handful of openings between slats.
So why exactly do the Brontë sisters, these rural curate's daughters with only a handful of novels between them, continue to fascinate us?
And if you're prepared to buy a handful of bottles between £8 and £25, you can call yourself a wine collector.
She went on to make some two dozen feature films, all but a handful of them between 1948 and 1957 and many of them westerns.
While "Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush" is not exactly a joint retrospective, it includes a number of works by Gyokuran, as well as a handful of collaborations between husband and wife.
It will also have been observed that, in a large first-team squad, well-paid individuals such as Cameron Jerome, Wilson Palacios, Jermaine Pennant, Matthew Upson, Maurice Edu, Michael Owen and Thomas Sorensen barely managed a handful of appearances between them all season.
In a rivalry that rarely produces more than a handful of goals between teams that prefer a defensive style, the scoring piled up so fast it was hard to keep track.
One of a handful of homes between Fifth and Madison Avenues with private garages, the neo-Classical mansion has 8 bedrooms, 10 full baths, a wine cellar and tasting room, and 8 fireplaces with antique mantels imported from Europe.
Henry Miller said of Big Sur, Calif., that it is "a region where extremes meet," and the same might be said of its hotels: there have long been only a handful of options between the luxurious Post Ranch Inn and the charming but ramshackle Deetjen's Big Sur Inn.
The other licensed parties only managed to win a handful of seats between them in the most recent election, in 2005, and the main source of political opposition is the banned Muslim Brotherhood, which has 88 members in the 454-seat lower house of parliament, all of whom stood as independents.
