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The past can be quite fascinating. Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the past thanks to photography, as the oldest surviving photograph is from 1826.
It's even more interesting when old historical photos teach us something new. That's the mission of the Undiscovered History Facebook page. It's a popular account with over 540k followers that teaches its fans a bit of everything: history, aesthetics, and even interesting facts. So scroll down and explore history through the medium of pictures!
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#1
An Officer Halts Traffic To Make Way For A Cat Carrying A Kitten Across The Street, 1925
Richard Graham 1 year ago (edited)
That big car on the left is a 1916 to 1920 Pierce-Arrow, made in Buffalo, NY. Pierce-Arrow was the car of Presidents and Millionaires. The White House fleet was all Pierce-Arrows. One sold for about three or four years' pay for an average person. Large, luxuries, extremely well-made and well-fitted: Jay Leno said his Pierce-Arrow gets two miles to the gallon.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
They got a cat to walk where they wanted, carrying a kitten, no less. Still impressive in my book.
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#2
Blackfoot Tribe In Glacier National Park, 1913
The Mediterranean Fruit 1 year ago
Oh behalf of all Americans- I’m sorry for what we did to the indigenous people.
Broadredpanda 1 year ago
This is a stunning photo! I'd love to learn about different tribes all over America. Something very majestic about this photo! Love it
DEW 1 year ago
Back in the day nobody wanted Indians around. They would be chased down and killed or ran out of town. Today...people are fighting to be Indians. It's really sad to think about.
Leona V. 1 year ago
We have no reservations in Illinois. Could not even give them that after running the First Nations out of the area. There are some identified tribes making moves towards reclaiming at least some land, though.
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Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
Was in grand canyon recently. I imagined this. So cool. We really treated them horribly.
Cathy Carey 1 year ago
We could have learned to live in harmony like the native american's did but no...
#3
Three Young Boys Sit In A Wagon In A Pittsburgh Neighborhood Street, 1920-1930
Jo Hardy 1 year ago
Absolutely. I have friends who happen to be black. When their son started school he was coming home distraught most days saying he was being bullied. My friend went to all the parent's homes, all she got was - yep, you guessed - racial abuse.
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
No child is bad from the beginning. They only imitate their atmosphere.
Undiscovered History is one of the few online accounts run by the folks at History Defined. It's a blog that shares important and unusual historic facts and stories we probably don't learn in a history class at school. Their content includes such interesting stories as why Christian monks had such weird haircuts and the fashion of the decades from the 1920s up to the 1990s.
Besides this Facebook page, you can find History Defined and their content on Instagram, X, and YouTube. We've actually covered their IG page a couple of times, and you can find the article here and here. Their X page is currently the most popular with over 670k followers.
#4
1967-2018 Same Bike, Same Couple
Jen Exer 1 year ago
Ours did. It's in the back of the garage and gets started up every once in a while and cleaned out again for storage. The plastic is brittle and discolored like theirs. But it has survived!
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Susie Swearingen-Kamachi 10 months ago
Love this one. Shows if you take care of things they last.
#5
A Portrait Of Hollow Horn Bear, A Man From The Brulé Native American Tribe. 1907
Livingwithcfs 1 year ago
This is the face of a man with a story that goes back thousands of years
#6
A Lovely Photo Of A Brother And Sister. I Love Their Fashions And Her Purse! Chicago,. 1945
Rizzo 1 year ago
I bet this was before or after church. We have a Black Community here in Wiesbaden and I sometimes see the families go to church. They are always very beautifully dressed and they are always followed by the smell of homecooked food. I am no religious person but if I had to choose a church - I would pick that one.
MAKtheknife 1 year ago
Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. That's what my mom called our clothes for church.
Mary Tonningsen 1 year ago
I wish I could see more of her hat - it looks like it's decorated the same as her purse with the white viney-looking trim.
The content channel describes their goal as "to create exciting content, whether you're casually interested in history or an expert." The Instagram page came first in October of 2021, and other social media accounts followed. They also accept contributions from their followers, asking them to reach out through their contact page.
In May 2023, History Defined launched the Threads of History Facebook group, taking their audience's submissions even further. That's where their followers and fans can share any fascinating stories and photos from the past they find interesting and worth sharing.
#7
A Kid's Reaction To Meeting Andre The Giant (1970's)
Maureen Sullivan 1 year ago
The picture as a whole is what makes it so special.
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alberta mountainmum 1 year ago
I met him. He came to my school (calgary circa 1988 I think) and his hand was the size of my entire body! He was so gentle shaking our hands and such a sweetheart. My dad's a huge wrestling fan and he was sooooo jealous
#8
A Man Posing With A Donkey In His Lap, 1910s
JoMeBee 1 year ago
The donkey has one of the most soulful expressions I've ever seen. Looks like a Disney character!
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#9
Tricycle From 1936
JimSteve 1 year ago
Just like cars, they all look terrible nowadays, bring back this kind of style
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Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
When did the designs of stuff like cars and buildings start to suck so much?
Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago
1950s Soviet brutalism followed by 1960s western post modernism.
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Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Looks like something that could fit perfectly in the Fallout games (pref 3, NV, 4,etc). This bike has that 1950s-but-200-yrs-later Fallout Flavor going on.
Nowadays, we consume tons of visual media. Videos, photos, cinema, and TV can help us learn new things every day. However, they can just as easily misinform us. With the rise of AI-generated images and other means to doctor photographs, it's hard to know when we can trust what we see as true. Interestingly, what we now consider historical images were sometimes altered even before the advent of Photoshop.
#10
Cats Wait For The Fisherman To Return, Istanbul, 1970s
Libstak 1 year ago
They would eat well, all the fish needed to be gutted before going to market.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I sure hope the soft can-openers caught enough tuna! There's going to be trouble, if not.
Jamzie Sirius 1 year ago (edited)
Who else had to start counting the cats only to realize, that its just the picture number...?
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Where is my lunch?! Terrible service! It’s so hard to get good hoomans these days
#11
Three Female Students Walk In The City Of Kabul, Afghanistan, 1972
Eric Williams 1 year ago
It's not about the religion. It's about the perverted a******s that position themselves for power and influence while pretending to be righteous and 'enlightened'.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Yep and if you don't want what happened to them to happen in the US you should check out and vote against project 2025.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Pictures like these and from pre-1979 Iran are an object lesson in how quickly a society can go from being open and modern to being repressive and retrograde.
King's Flatulist 1 year ago
You could say F religion here, but be missing a major point. Religion is in every country. What really needs to be understood is that the U.S. used extremist groups inside Afghanistan to undermine Soviet powers during the cold war without regard for what it would do to Afghanistan's political stability. When the U.S. got what it wanted, they dusted their hands off and left Afghanistan with tipped power scales leading to civil war. The west made themselves enemies. Albeit, the people who took control (and maintain it currently) have made no effort towards any humanitarianism, those groups could not have done it without outside aid.
Captain McSmoot 1 year ago
It's crazy what can happen to a country when extremists take over every aspect of a country: politics, religion, etc.
#12
Father And Son Take Silly Photos, 1910s
Rizzo 1 year ago
One never can feel love in this old pictures. Usually the people always look serious. This is a very nice variety.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
Yeah if you wanted to smile, you’d have to hold that smile for a bit, so it was more convenient for a neutral facial expression
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I love that in a time where most fathers were disciplinarians and bread-winners, this man is enjoying his son and their time together.
Perhaps the most iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is actually fake. In the image, Lincoln is standing, but that's not his body. Printmakers superimposed his head from a 1964 portrait by Anthony Berger onto John Calhoun's body. Hany Farid, a professor specializing in image analysis at Berkeley University, claims it might've been because there were no "heroic style" portraits of Lincolns at the time.
#13
Richard White Bull, Oglala Sioux, 1899
Jodi Walters 1 year ago
Love pictures of Native Americans, we could learn a lot from them both then and now.
Bohemiangirl 1 year ago
Is that what that thing is? If you whacked somebody in the temple with that, they'd be dead!
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#14
In 1960, David Latimer Planted A Spiderwort Sprout Inside Of A Large Glass Bottle, Added A Quarter Pint Of Water, And Then Sealed It Shut
He opened the bottle 12 years later in 1972 to add some water and then sealed it for good. The self contained ecosystem has flourished for more than 60 years. For those who are wondering how this is even possible: the garden is a perfectly balanced and self-sufficient ecosystem. The bacteria in the compost eats the dead plants and breaks down the oxygen that is released by the plants, turning it into carbon dioxide, which is needed for photosynthesis. The bottle is essentially a microcosm of earth.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Sort of like in Futurama (Bender in space), MiB, or 'Love, Deaths, and Robots' (freezer) ?
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G A 1 year ago
I know if I do one of these it will be a foul smalling puddle of.goo sloshing about in a clouded jar.
sturmwesen 1 year ago
I thought so too, but I have a few that work just fine. You need a bit of ash and less water than you think. I prefer mine with orchids 🤩
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I've gotta be that guy: you don't "break down" oxygen to make carbon dioxide
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
It's not actually self-contained though because UV light comes into the system from the outside
#15
A Photograph Of A Little Boy Carrying A Newborn Lamb, In Scotland, 1932
Stalin was a big fan of removing his enemies and those who fell out of his favor from photographs. One example is a 1922 image where the dictator is standing next to the Moscow canal. In the original photo, a secret police official Nikolai Yezhov is standing next to him. But in 1938, he fell out of Stalin's favor and was secretly arrested, tried, and executed. Thus, the leader had photo retouchers remove him.
#16
A Mother And Her Eight Sons, All Served, All Came Home
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Lucky family that they all returned. My mom had 5 brothers who served, 3 in WWII and 2 in the Korean Conflict, all also came home.
#17
3 Beautiful Children From 1901. Hattie, Clarence, And James Harold Ward
#18
A Lady From High Society. Ottoman Empire, 1900s
C.Stith 1 year ago
My niece has eyebrows like that! I hate her! Mine are invisible.
Load More Replies...The National Geographic is also a culprit when it comes to altering images. Their February issue cover in 1982 featured the pyramids of Giza. However, in the image they used, the two pyramids are too close together than they are in reality.
The magazine later expressed their regrets and said: "We no longer use that technology to manipulate elements in a photo simply to achieve a more compelling graphic effect. We regarded that afterwards as a mistake, and we wouldn't repeat that mistake today."
#19
Jim Carrey, Christmas 1967
Joshua Seaman 1 year ago
Film didn't look like this in the 60s, so doubtful this is Carrey.
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Kris 1 year ago
This is NOT Jim Carey. This is a prime example of why you shouldn't take pictures at face value.
Lea S. 1 year ago
Are you confused about what you are reading? The article isn't showing pictures of important moments in history.
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 year ago
or squirrels! ('Over the hedge' or 'Hoodwinked' also right?, though nothing to do with the pic just what I came to think of).
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Because the designer coloured the wrong part of the Santa hat red.
Load More Replies... Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
Why is there an olive pushing a hotdogs on christmas paper? But it is Jim carrey
#20
A Sweet Photo Of A Brother And Sister. Charlottesville, Va, C. 1916
Anne Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
So sweet. ♥️ I remember dressing up my kids for portraits when they were little.
#21
Unbelievably Stunning Couple (Love How Their Hands Are Clasped Together), 1960s
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I love her outfit. I'm imagining it in a bright color, like a pink or a bright blue
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
For all the horrors of the pre-civil rights era, the fashion beyond reproach.
Michael Donofrio 1 year ago
Look at the background and you'll see this as an interesting juxtaposition
Denise Johnson 1 year ago
Because of how they're dressed? It's not where you live it's how you live.
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Did you know the iconic album cover for The Beatles' Abbey Road was also altered? In the original, Paul McCartney was holding a cigarette in his right hand. In the United States, the poster companies airbrushed the images and removed the cigarette from his hand in 2001, 14 months after George Harrison passed away from cancer.
Apple Records later issued a statement, saying they never agreed to this. "It seems these poster companies got a little carried away. They shouldn't have done what they have, but there isn't much we can do about it now."
#22
A Mountain Boy Fetches Water From A Spring, Great Smoky Mountains, Sevier County, Tennessee, Ca. 1950
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
My grandmother grew up on an Appalachian farm in the 1920’s. She and her sisters would sing hymns really loud when they went to the spring at dusk to “scare away any wolves.”
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
My wife and I got married there. There's a statue of Dolly Parton in front of the courthouse.
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Jackie MacGregor 1 year ago
When I was about 18 I was downtown in Toronto at the cafeteria in Eatons or Simpson and saw the most beautiful black woman I had ever seen. I couldn’t looking stop staring and glancing at her. She noticed me looking and I was so shy I didn’t have the nerve to approach her. I have regretted it ever since. She was so stunning! It was in the sixties and I am 76 now and I still remember her face.
#23
The Shape Of The Statue Of Liberty Is Formed By 18,000 Soldiers Standing In Formation. Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Ca. 1918
Peter Bear 1 year ago
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." America is built on immigrants and immigration, diversity and inclusion. It's what we are supposed to be. Remember that. Now more than ever.
Tomie Russom 1 year ago
That had take some time to assemble. Thank goodness it's not a kindergarten class,
M O'Connell 1 year ago
This forum post does an excellent job of explaining the process for getting the men lined up: https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/48414-arthur-s-mole-and-john-d-thomas-patriotic-photographs-and-the-work-of-others/
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A Stylish 1940s Group Portrait
Hinrik Ævarsson 1 year ago
This dude could probably skip the line at any club because surely Mr. Suave is with the band, probably Little Richards cousin or something.
Uren Bugwandeen 1 year ago
amazing how beautiful they all look fully clothed! now days, half of everyones bums are hanging out and they are plastered in make up
A 1970 photograph by photojournalism student John Filo taken at a protest against the war in Vietnam was doctored as well. But not in an attempt to change history. The original simply broke the main aesthetic rule of photography: a fence post terminated on top of the subject's head. The photograph won a Pulitzer prize, so, it was worth it, probably?
#25
Portrait Of A Mother And Her Daughter. Photographed In 1910
timebleeder 1 year ago
I assume the mom looks so awkward because that's as far as she can bend.
#26
King George Vi Bursting With Excitement On A Theme Park Ride - 1930s
Lila Allen 1 year ago
To be fair with that much inbreeding can you even use facial expressions?
#27
Country Store On A Dirt Road, North Carolina In 1939
Glix Drap 1 year ago
Considering this must be a B&W photo then the name of the person who colourised it is particularly apt.
1 year ago
This building still exists - https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2802924,-79.1269471,3a,66.8y,74.08h,97.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soBVcCXFdmwybpfGJV7HdkA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Shinebright 1 year ago
As an Australian I thought in America there were racism and separation between the black and white people but in a lot of these pictures they seem to mingle together happily.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
I love this picture. not sure why, it's just really aesthetically pleasing.
And how can we forget to mention celebrities getting airbrushed on the covers of magazines? One of the earliest examples was a TV Guide cover of Oprah. The editors superimposed her head on the '60s star Ann-Margaret's body. Interestingly, the magazine didn't ask either woman's permission before they chose to do that.
#28
American Woman Welders During World War II
Bettye McKee 1 year ago
Women filled all the jobs. Airplanes and military vehicles still had to be built.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 1 year ago
“But women should be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.” This photo shows otherwise. Women can do anything we want to do
#29
A Woman Churning Milk To Butter While Reading A Book, 1897
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Silly BP, forgetting to mention the star of this moment - helpful kitty!
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Of course the kitten is helping. He's helping himself.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago (edited)
Fun fact: put one cup of heavy cream into a pint Mason jar and seal tightly. Now shake it like a shake weight for about 10 minutes or so and voilà...butter. Really fun to do at parties (if butter is needed). People like to take a turn at shaking the jar hoping they'll be the one holding it when it suddenly becomes butter.
Deanne Charlton 1 year ago
My mother came from an illiterate family in the woods in Alabama. She loved to read and kept getting into trouble when flies got into the churn because she read and didn't pay attention to the churn.
#30
Federico Caprilli Demonstrates The Skills Of His Horse As Part Of The Esteemed Italian Cavalry School, 1906
Manana Man 1 year ago
Not necessarily. I remember a quote from a guy who used to jump horses off high towers into a pool of water. He said any horse would do it once. But if they didn't want to do it again, you couldn't make them.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I wonder if this is his horse "Pouf." I was dressage, so none of my warmbloods were used for jumping. Caprilli, however, is pretty known in the Equestrian world. He studied how horses' bodies moved during fence jumping, & then used his findings to create a jumping technique that was more in line with their natural body movements. Essentially creating horses that were more willing to jump obstacles because this style was more fluid. The hope was that horses would no longer be forced (read beaten)to change to the unnatural gait that would made them reluctant to jump, The irony is that Caprilli is celebrated in the Equestrian world...where a lot of people abuse their horses 😡 however Caprilli came up with this style because he was dedicated to stopping the mistreatment of horses, especially the way they were beaten "for the sake if training"
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 1 year ago
Ah! If the horse wasn't happy would have scrolled him down in a heartbeat! This exercises require a perfect coordination between the two.
Photographs can be a great source of history. But, sometimes, we should take them with a healthy dose of skepticism. As David Levi Strauss writes for TIME magazine, "Technical images have now become a form of information, to be consumed like all other bits and bytes. As we consume them, we should perhaps take a moment to reflect, not just on how we manipulate and change them, but also on how we are manipulated and changed by them."
#31
Charlie Chaplin Meeting Helen Keller, 1919
Captain McSmoot 1 year ago
At first I thought Charlie Chaplin had one heck of a caboose on him! Then I realized it was his hat.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Hellen Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and a staunch advocate of social justice, not only for the disabled but for women and union workers as well.
Wisteria Bookworm 1 year ago (edited)
Still a better love story than Twilight ;) (I’m kidding, kidding) Edit: I mean IM NOT SHIPPING THEM OKAY ITS JUST A JOKE-
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago (edited)
She was deaf & blind, not uneducated. She authored several books and was quite scholarly.
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AussieTolkein 1 year ago
Sometimes I have to question Helen Keller, her abilities were simply astounding for her 'disabilities.'
#32
Grandparents The Night They Met (1970)
Little Wonder 1 year ago
Grandparents. Met in 1970. Grandparents. GRAND PARENTS. I need a lie down. This whole linear time thing is hurting me.
Ordhaj 1 year ago
My grandparents met before the WWI, so I'm with you Little Wonder.
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Rob D 1 year ago
I was gonna say something dirtier on that. But, uh, yes, ❤️
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#33
Dutch Boy With A Pillow Strapped On His Backside To Soften The Falling On Ice While Skating, 1933
keyboardtek 1 year ago
My oldest brother was invited to ice skate when he was 50 years old. Forgot how to stop. Rammed into the wall and dislocated his shoulder.
#34
Two Gentlemen From The Early 1900s
Chickie 1 year ago
So distinguished! Wish style would make it's presence again...heavy sigh...
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Right? I love these older styles, but maybe not to this extreme, can we just ask for the end of foam shoes and sweat pants in places that aren't the gym..? 😮💨
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#35
Cyclist From Estonia, On A Self-Made Bicycle, 1912
Zoran Pualic 1 year ago
Well, that is not rear suspension - but, a pair of pedals, moving like in mechanical sawing machine! Principle of bell-cranks? Push-start forward and then pressing horizontal levers!
#36
The Opening Of The Eiffel Tower During The 1889 World’s Fair
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Is that the exhibition building in front of it and how long did it stay there?
Bryn 1 year ago
It stayed there through the end of the World's Fair and then demolished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)#:~:text=Most%20of%20the%20buildings%20were,shortly%20after%20the%20exposition%20closed.
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#37
Three Lacemakers Working. Brittany, France. 1920
#38
A Female Firefighting Team On A Converted Motorcycle In London, 1932
Gandalf the Pink 1 year ago
Damn, nylons were such high quality back then even firefighters wore them on duty
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Not nylons - wasn't even patented till 1937. Possibly rayon or silk.
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Phil Green 1 year ago (edited)
I don't think it's in London. I think, judging by the address on the carriage, they are from 31, London Street, Norwich, which is in Norfolk.
#39
Young Riders Refuel During A Children's Sidecar Race In The Lustgarten In Berlin, Germany (1931)
Richard Graham 1 year ago
It is sad to think that their lives would later be sucked into the horrors of an upcoming world war.
Cammy Mack 1 year ago
Unbelievable, I bet they haven't even considered their carbon footprint.
#40
A Native American Sends Smoke Signals In Montana, June 1909
Michael Donofrio 1 year ago
"the white man is here with the soul stealer and disease maker"
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Cristi nah 1 year ago (edited)
"Hey your last message was so confusing" "What message? I was roasting a salmon"
#41
Young, Well-Dressed, Victorian Girl In 1902
Debby Keir 1 year ago
By 1902 she was'Edwardian', unless she was Australian and lived in the state of Victoria 😶
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I always want to know what happened to these people. How were their lives, were they happy, what they thought.
#42
A Little Boy All Dressed Up Standing By His New Pedal Car. 1958
Lila Allen 1 year ago
You'd have to be rich AF to buy that now. Original in good condition is like 20k
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ROSESARERED 1 year ago
My pale yellow pedal car was my absolute favorite toy. They are still made,
Steve Robert 1 year ago
That could be me in 1958, except I got a new bike. And our living room was similar. And, no, we weren't well off. Just a regular family.
#43
Female Swimmer Posing On The Beach. Deauville, France. Ca. 1925
Adam King 1 year ago
The picture, yes. If the swimmer still looks like this now I have some concerns. And some garlic.
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#44
A Couple From 1850!
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
Most probably that paisley shawl was given to her as an engagement present...way back.
#45
A Boy Selling Lemonade With A Portable Lemonade Dispenser. Berlin, 1931
K- THULU 1 year ago
Just makes me think...... poor kids..... where will they be in 10 years......
Pernille 1 year ago
Rob, you should be banned from the internet. How do you know they are not Jewish, or gay, or just innocent. All the pictures of young US-americans makes me wonder if they have not turned into MAGA nazies, seriously!
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4 Generations In 1 Picture, 1880s
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I have a photo with four generations of my family in it. My dad, pop, great grandmother and great great grandmother. My dad was a few months old.
Papa 1 year ago
I do too, with my father holding me, standing beside his father and paternal grandfather.
Load More Replies... Eastendbird 1 year ago
Not sure if it's relevant for this picture, but with early cameras, the exposure time needed for photographs was really long. It was uncomfortable to hold a smile for that long, that's why people in old photos tend to look so serious.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
I have my own four generations picture: myself, my daughter, three grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. It's what happens when you mess around and find out!
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Comparing this to a family photo of Laura Ingalls Wilder with her sisters and parents during the same period. Laura is wearing her hair the same way as the young mother and her mother is wearing HER hair the same way as the grandmother is. Even the clothes look similar, although the generations are wearing different kinds of dresses among themselves.
Eunice Robertson 1 year ago
On my wedding day, I had a photo of 5 generations of my family, my greatgrandmother, my grandmother, my mother, me and my sister's baby. I'm hoping to be a greatgrandmother before I shuffle off this mortal coil one day.
ZestyBison 1 year ago
I have one of these as well with my mother, my maternal grandmother, and maternal great grandmother. I was 12 in the picture and I found it to be exceptionally cool.
#47
Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961
Livi David 1 year ago
I know someone who supposedly studied German studies and they were telling me that East Germany was quite progressive in terms of human rights. Apparently it was better than other countries at the time in the west because they allowed women to work and accepted the LGBT community (as long as they didn't teach it though haha). As long as you worked you were guaranteed accomodation so it was actually alright because if people worked they were treated quite well. What are your thoughts on this interpretation? Last time I checked people were trying to get out of East Germany not in...
Claudia Stieble 1 year ago
In certain aspects you are right, but the price was high. You were constantly spied on by people you knew, sometimes familymembers, sometimes neighbours, coworkers or friends. The moment you did or said something that went against the official party line, you were arrested, interrogated and imprisoned. The biggest problem was the economy. The money was not worth much and there was nothing you could buy. At least not the stuff we were used to get in any supermarket here in the west. Ornages were so rare, that people had their first orange of their life when the wall came down in 1989 and they ventured over into the west for the first time.
Load More Replies... Michael Donofrio 1 year ago
Walls built to keep people OUT invariably wind up being used to keep people IN.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
To be fair, this one was actually built to keep people in from the start
Load More Replies... Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
And 28 years later, the wall is down, but are the grandparents still around to meet their grandchildren.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Hardly even close. Mandatory isolation was was to prevent people from death. Berlin wall was Russian aggression.
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Photo Of Lumberjacks Cutting Trees In Pacific Northwest, USA 1915
Curry on... 1 year ago
The cutting down and destruction of old growth trees --- why Teddie Roosevelt had to put those forests under the government's control, otherwise, it'd probably be all desert these days.
Piwakawaka 1 year ago
I read about a lumberjack who cut down one of these. When he saw how many rings there were, he realized that in one day he had helped destroy a being that had lived for thousands of years. He quit. He became active in their protection after that.
lovemy suffolk 1 year ago
I get it, modernization and growth has a HEFTY price tag on the environment. We have the comforts we have because of it. But yeah, I hate it too. Love my phone, but hate that plastic was invented...what ya gonna do?
Load More Replies... Bohemiangirl 1 year ago
Brick, rock, clay, sod.... there were many ways to build houses going back centuries. They started using wood more in the new world because trees were easy, plentiful and free, at least they used to be. 😞
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Piwakawaka 1 year ago (edited)
Yes, but not that many compared to how it used to be.
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Children In The Slums Of Cumberland Street. Dublin, Ireland, 1940
Lila Allen 1 year ago
Um rude.... they are well cared for, not malnourished, and dressed appropriate to the weather. I object to the term slum. Try enforced poverty by the British
Jayne Edwards 1 year ago
Nothing to do with the British. Ireland is and was self ruled unlike Northern Ireland.
Ashlie Ann 1 year ago
Reminder to all: If you don't like something, or disagree with it, you're more than welcome to move forward to the next photo. You would be saving yourself, and possibly others a headache. :-)
#50
New York City Ca.1940
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Maureen, you will be not allowed, it was sure only for men.
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Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Have you ever looked at a photo like this and just felt what it was like to be there? As if you had just been there yesterday? How warm the sun was, what the noise sounded like, the feel of the pavement under your feet?
Richard Graham 1 year ago
There was a top-rated radio show at that time called "Duffy's Tavern" (later a movie then TV show). The show opened with a ringing phone answered with "Hello, Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speaking, Duffy ain't here. Oh, hello Duffy."
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Double-breasted suit, fedora, and cigarette. Can't get much more 1940s than that.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
When people talk with nostalgia about "the good old days", the fashion and the car designs are about the only things I'd ever want to see come back.
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This photo has been altered - it's actually Flynn's Tavern. https://www.shorpy.com/node/15333?size=_original
pfeils wife 1 year ago
they sure did! they also 'erased' the Bar Flynn's on the sign, just to the right of the man walking and directly above the old man with a cane.
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Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago
There was an old radio show that took place at that tavern. "Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat and drink Blatz beer."
#51
Looking Out The Window Of Apollo 11, July 1969
Percival Salisaro 1 year ago
You can really tell by the 2D representation.
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Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Reminds me, I recommend the Apollo 13 documentary on Netflix right now (Sept 2024) it was very interesting!
#52
Barefoot Kids At A Mobile Book Cart In The Appalachian Mountains
AussieTolkein 1 year ago
Just as children should be - girls in pretty dresses and boys in dapper little outfits, no shoes, freedom to roam the fields and explore.
#54
This Photo From 1902 Shows French Knife Grinders. They Would Work On Their Stomachs In Order To Save Their Backs From Being Hunched All Day. (France 1902)
Little Wonder 1 year ago
Yes, IIRC they were encouraged to bring their dogs to keep their legs warm.
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#55
Stunning Then And Now Comparison Of Robin Hood's Bay, A Picturesque Old Fishing Village In Yorkshire
#56
Cowboys Enjoy Drinks At The Equity Bar In Old Tascosa, Texas, 1907
#57
A Family Living In London’s Slums, 1900s
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago (edited)
Whenever I see photos like these where it's obvious how tough it was for non-affluent people (aka the vast majority) I feel an irrational surge of wrath towards people blathering about "the good old times". THIS is what it looked like when "women's place were home and hearth", when contraception and séx ed weren't a thing, when "the government didn't stop feisty little entrepreneurs" (also known as "children") from feeling proud for earning their own money (read "get exploited"), when "laziness wasn't rewarded with welfare checks", when "women and children were safe" (spoiler alert: thery weren't - it just didn't make the news).
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
10000000% when people say "oh the good old days were so much better" I immediately think about what a privileged POV that is. It was better for very few - wealthy white men and, to a lesser extent, wealthy white women. Period.
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AussieTolkein 1 year ago
Such a beautiful family, despite the hardships they still dress like women and the boys still dress like men.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
I think you misspelt "poverty-and-disease ridden, exploited and undereducated".
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A Young Boy And His Dog From 1889
#59
Monet With His Wife Alice, 1908
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
🎶 Hear her calling, "Tuppins. Tuppins. Tuppins a bag." 🎶 "Feed the Birds", Disney's version of Mary Poppins
JoNo 1 year ago
I usually wouldn't comment just to correct someone, but this is interesting. The word is "tuppence" which is short for three pence, adding more meaning to the lyrics.
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London Pub, 1967
Eric Williams 1 year ago
sigh...mini skirts and lovely long legs. Those were the days my friend.
Zoran Pualic 1 year ago
I would like to see now those girls - must be wonderful grandmas? (I am 74)
#61
A Group Portrait Taken At A Wedding In Norway, 1900
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Grimmest wedding party I've ever seen! Hope the smiles came back out after the photo.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Is it the bride or his mother? No wonder he smiles not.
Load More Replies... AussieTolkein 1 year ago
Her crown! Also, @StephanieDidIt, many, many Anglo-Saxons forget how to smile, no matter how wonderful the day is. I suffer from this too lol
Zoran Pualic 1 year ago
When you have to be steady for some time (long-time exposition for classic cameras and films), you could not look jolly and funny? But, before and after that?
#62
Irish Fishermen, Ireland 1910
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Brilliant pun made me literally LOL. Can't help but think maybe you were fishing for compliments, though...... :p
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Sven Petersson 1 year ago
The old fishermen of my paternal grandpa's generation looked about the same. He was born in 1920.
#63
Old-Time Appalachian Musicians With A Pooch On The Porch
#64
Lady And Her Horse On A Snowy Day In 1899
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
She's exercising the horse, not chasing it. The long thing in her hand is a lunging whip. To lunge, you stand in the center of the pen and the horse circles you in various speeds: walk, trot, canter. The whip signals the horse when to change gaits.
AussieTolkein 1 year ago
I wish this was me: Snow, horses, property, the most beautiful dresses.
#65
Lockheed Martin Employee Sally Wadsworth Working On The Fuselage Of A P-38 Lightning In California, 1944
Glix Drap 1 year ago
Not quite sure why she is using a screwdriver on a rivet. Guess the photographer just asked her to pose without thinking.
Spidercat 1 year ago
Not necessarily a screwdriver. Based on the fact thar the panel she's working on has holes for the rivets but no actual rivets, I would guess she's replaced a panel and is either punching holes or carrying out prep work for the rivets to be installed. Check rivet line to the right and you'll see the finished look of the panels.
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Ruth Disney Seen Standing With Her Big Brother Walt (1906)
Slowdown 1 year ago
How was Disney fascist? Can you cite that? He made political cartoons during WWII lampooning fascism in Europe. He may have been racist and an a-hole, but that doesn't automatically make him a fascist.
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Kids Cheering On The Way Out The Door On The Last Day Of School, 1977
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Oh no! That girl is showing her shoulders! And her navel! Dress code her immediately, a perv might get funny ideas!
#68
3 Sets Of Twin Girls Pose Together For A Portrait In 1895
#69
A Four-Year-Old Child Helping Her Family Pick/Dig Potatoes, 1931
Paulina 1 year ago
Be frank: she's not "helping", she's WORKING. "Helping" implies she had a choice and wasn't burdened with tasks beyond her strength. Yet, back then it was pretty common for children to work for pay, starting as young as 6-7. And outside the cities, on farms, they worked alongside adults with no pay and no set hours, as it was considered their duty, chores, necessary for keeping up the family life. Child labor was accepted and praised as productive way of raising children. In the countryside, this approach of making farmwork children's chores, was prevalent even after the war and is still considered normal in some places.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Even a four year old is capable of helping to put potatoes in a basket. Farm work is almost always family work. Everybody helps out. It’s not exploitation. It’s farm life
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Anne Roberts 1 year ago
Poor baby! Today (hopefully) she would be playing with friends or in preschool. 💔
Brian Droste 1 year ago
If you live out in the country and have a farm the kids help out on the farm even today.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Why do pictures like these always spark debates? It happened. Little girl putting potatoes in basket. How interesting. Move on. Not everything is political.
#70
A Family At Their Cabin Home In West Virginia, 1900
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
They had at minimum two pigs, family and their shack looked comfortable, they are not poor. Not by today´s standards, but nothing tragic. He builded it himself, probably. Most of the immigrants lived so and worse in these times.
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geezeronthehill 1 year ago
I wouldn't bet on it. You don't know those people. Remember that West Virginia seceded from the enslavers of eastern Virginia.
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Marlene Dietrich Kissing A Soldier Returning From Wwii, 1945
#72
Idaho Winter, As Experienced In 1952
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Front: 1946 Chevrolet Stylemaster Sedan. Behind that, late 1940s Pontiac.
whiterabbit 1 year ago
Wish our winters were like this every year, keep some of the Californians from moving here.
#73
The Traveling Wilburys, 1980s
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I was obsessed with their music. I used to ride my bike every day after school with my Walkman playing it on a cassette tape. :)
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
There’s a video for one of their songs, and everyone is wearing t-shirts featuring Dennis and Gnasher from the Beano (UK comic that started in 1930). I would love to know what Tom, Bob and Roy thought about them!
#74
Wooden Railway Bridge. USA, Montana, 1883
Bryn 1 year ago
Just a heads up if you're looking for the bridge, it's misspelled in the photo, It's the Marent Gulch Trestle: https://bnsfmountainwest.com/news/2024/03/24/marent-gulch-trestle-a-historic-testament-to-engineering-brilliance/ and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-marent-gulch-bridge-at-one-time-was.html
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Wonder what the people halfway up the trestle (circled) are doing.
#75
Just Divorced, 1930s
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Considering how divorce laws were at the time, it's unlikely that she 'took' much at all.
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#76
A Cool Girl Posing With Her Car Around 1920
pfeils wife 1 year ago
My dumb a*s just spent way to long looking for the cat!! CAR. It reads CAR! 🙄
#77
Kids Playing, New York, 1940s
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
This is a great pic! Nearly missed the little guy behind the pillar!
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Nowadays there’d be fences and landing pads and people would threaten to sue because “It’s not safe!”
pfeils wife 1 year ago
True... but as a parent, I'll admit, this would cause me just a tiny bit of anxiety!
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These Progressive High School Girls Learn The Finer Points Of Auto Mechanics In 1927
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Proud to say BOTH my daughters were required to change their oil themselves at least once. Youngest called me about a flat tire. Took my floor jack, 4 way lug wrench into town. She changed it herself. Exchange student we had giggled about her doing it, Camilla got to do some too. I pointed out she benefitted from the transpo too.
pfeils wife 1 year ago
I fixed that downvote since I sensed your sarcasm.
Load More Replies... Tomie Russom 1 year ago
Car upkeep was a requisite for me. My dad wouldn't let me behind the wheel until I could do basic upkeep.
#79
A Woman Using A Spinning Wheel Outside Of Her Log Cabin, 1918
#80
Young Woman Removing Her Loaf Of Bread From The Oven, 1909
Auntriarch 1 year ago
The kitchen may have been the most comfortable room in the house in the winter
Load More Replies... AussieTolkein 1 year ago
I would love to be one of these housewives of the era. Their lives weren't half as bad as many seem to think. Give me six kids, a kitchen and some beautiful dress any day, please!
#81
Rural Mail Delivery In 1914
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Better be a nowadays postman in a climatized car.
Load More Replies... Cindy Brick 1 year ago
My grandpa delivered mail via horse and carriage during Depression/WWII years...because gas was rationed.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Why look, he's wearing a 3-piece suit and tie. Let the debate begin.
Krizzy Wilde 1 year ago
It's a lovely photo of it's time but somehow I think a lot of people might not agree with their mail being delivered in the same way now!🙃
#82
In The Kitchen Of A Montana Farmhouse, 1900
#83
Even The Window Cleaners Wore Suits 100 Years Ago
Paulina 1 year ago (edited)
Pants and a jacket don't automatically mean suit ;) It's just how clothes looked like then - there were no t-shirts, hoodies, zippers, joggers and sweatpants, or even elastic fabrics other than hand knitted stuff ;) So yeah, you had some straight pants, shirt with buttons (otherwise you wouldn't be able to put it on, like we do with most today, thanks to elasticity of modern materials) and jacket with buttons. Vests could have been worn for extra warmth or style, but it still wasn't considered "suit". That would need to be a matching set, worn on special occasions.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
In Europa men wore shirts and vests by mowing fields, and long underpants -bc. their pants were made out of raw wool. They sweat freely, without deodorants and dusches. They were afraid of fresh air (had enough of working on farms) and some farmhands slept in stalls for warm in winter and fresher air in summer. In house slept the family.
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#84
Going To Mcdonald’s In The 1950s
Brian Droste 1 year ago
How the looks of McDonald's and all fast food joints changed over time.
#85
Rare Photo Showing Niagara Falls Completely Frozen Over In The Year 1911
#86
A Little Gang From Ohio, 1936
#87
3 Beautiful Children From The 1900s
#88
Portrait Of A Boy On A Rocking Horse, 1902
Krizzy Wilde 1 year ago
Probably wants to get back to rocking on his horse, photos took a long time to pose for back then!!
#89
A New York Policeman Hanging From A Girder, 1920
Michael None 1 year ago
For a second I thought "why would you do something so stupid?" then I remembered what people do for likes on social media. Humans are dumb.
arthbach 1 year ago
This does not look real. His arms are in the wrong position to support himself hanging from the girder.
Paulina 1 year ago
What's wrong with the position, exactly? It looks fine to me.
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Seiko TV Watch From 1982
PFD 1 year ago (edited)
Real product, fake screenshot, I think. The picture on Seiko's own website looks much more credible! https://www.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/51.html - ETA And likewise this ad from the time: https://www.neoteo.c...015/01/0130.jpg
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1969 And 1970’s Cars For Well Below $3000
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Times change..the station wagon is the most expensive. Now the truck would be priced highest. Of course back then you essentially got a bare bones work truck. Steel floor, bench seat, stick, MAYBE am radio.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Just a few months before I bought my 1983 Mazda B-2000, they were offering them new for only $4999. I missed out and spent $6500 on mine, but I also got a fancy camper shell with it - the kind with the inside paneling and lights.
Richard Graham 1 year ago
To put these prices in perspective - the minimum wage was then $1.45 an hour.
Manana Man 1 year ago
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics $1995 in 1969 equals $17600 today.
Load More Replies... Rob D 1 year ago
About $17000 USD in 2024. But tell us more about just not working hard enough boomers.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Blaming other generations is just what the government likes you to do. This is the result of government policies, pure and simple. Want free stuff from the government and forever wars? This is the cost.
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#92
The Cast Of Alice, 1979
#93
A School In Seattle 144 Years Ago!
#94
Milkman Dropping Off And Picking Up Milk, 1939
Slowdown 1 year ago
Yes, she's happy to get her milk in the winter without it spoiling from sitting outside too long.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I remember having milk delivered in San Antonio in the late 50s, early 60s.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Milkman do it on the doorstep. And he might ask to put his giant tool into her box.
#95
The Family Of A Migratory Fruit Worker From Tennessee Now Camped In A Field Near The Packinghouse At Winter Haven, Florida, 1937
Rob D 1 year ago (edited)
Migrant labor conditions still haven't improved much since 1937 in Winterhaven, FL either.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Can you imagine a native born American doing this work? Used to be. Keep bitching about immigrants...
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New York City 1960
axle f 1 year ago (edited)
...if you skip back twenty years, *every* man in the pic wud be wearing a fedora, a pork pie....a darn hat of some kind.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Wish I could see what the dresses looked like. They seem so pretty
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A Man On The Porch Of His Cabin, Eagle Creek, Murray, Idaho, 1889
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
A golddigger, he build it by his own hands looking for gold.
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
I've been to Murray a lot. They have a cool cemetery . I have gotten a few ghost photos there.
#99
Mcdonald’s Parties In The 80s Were Epic!
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
These days, you need a magnifying glass to find your 'Big' Mac.
Load More Replies... Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
that HAS to be in America. we had Mcdonalds parties too, but no way were the fries that huge!
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
looking at that, I don't feel cheated at all. todays (UK) portions are absolutely fine.
Load More Replies... joann fielding 1 year ago
And look at the size of the burger on the table! Do better, McDonald's.
#100
Andre The Giant Flying Out Of Japan, 1980
Rizzo 1 year ago
I just had a weird idea and asked myself how many toilets he may have clogged during his lifetime. ;)
Donald 1 year ago
He was too big to fit on toilets, he went in the bath tub and rinsed it away according to his friend and colleague Jake "The Snake" Roberts. He has talked about how difficult it was for Andre to live a normal life and the way people treated him.
Load More Replies... Tomie Russom 1 year ago
I knew his cousin and his hand would fit over my entire head. Strong (no pun) family genes.
#101
Photograph Of An Elderly Man And Woman Wearing Work Clothes And Seated On A Pile Of Firewood
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
That are their daily clothes. Maybe they had another, better clothes for church.
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#102
The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955
Bryn 1 year ago
They City. It was a safety hazard and they needed more room for books
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#103
Rolling To Work, 1940's
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
It seems to be an ad for conserving fuel and resources during WW2.
#104
An Empire State Builder Hanging On A Crane Above New York City, 1930
#105
70s Fashion
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My mum's school era. I wish she had been able to pass her clothes from then onto me, although they wouldn't fit me now. I did wear some of her 90s clothes when I was in my 20s, around 2010-4
Upstaged75 1 year ago
When I was a kid our "dress up" box consisted of all my mom's old clothes from the 70's. I remember orange polyester and purple faux crocodile shoes.
Load More Replies... Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
This is era of my younghood, but in this time we were invaded by the Soviets.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Center hair part and hotpants, check. I liked wearing sizzlers, which were micro mini jersey dresses with matching panties underneath.
#106
Family In Front Of Shack Home, Mays Avenue Camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Not the first thought to come in my mind, but whatever.
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#108
Ozark Mountain Family At Their Cabin In Arkansas
#109
Boy Selling Coca Cola From A Roadside Stand, 1936
#110
Southern Ohio Family In Front Of New Washing Machine, 1911
M O'Connell 1 year ago
At the time, a stationary engine would have been used to power many different things, washing machines, corn shellers, cream separators, etc.
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People Gathered In Front Of Stores In A Small Town. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1880
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
No it was and still is a tourist destination. During that time period spring waters were touted as having healing properties. So when discovered the towns spring up pretty fast. https://www.eurekaspringsar.gov/visitors/page/city-history
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Wow, Mom going for groceries must have been some adventure back then.
Brian irby 1 year ago
Actually, Eureka Springs is a spa/ resort town. It is pretty much on a mountainside. It was founded in the 1880s, so this was pretty soon after its founding, so no roads yet. Just lots of men looking for the fountain of youth.
#112
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
JoeKing 1 year ago
I will never understand the need to put yourself in danger like that, just to show off for a picture (Or video in todays social media world)
axle f 1 year ago
you're probably right, but....I'd say it's publicity for their professional act. Don't you think?
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A Taco Bell Menu From 1972
Rebekah Fuentes 1 year ago
OK 2 things, love how there's a pronunciation key for everything except the burger and, I want to try the burger 😂
Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
Look at all the cheese and beans on that tostada! Before they were discontinued, they devolved to the point where you only got three shreds of cheese and a smear of beans. Nothing was heaped on them at the end.
#114
The Comfortable Living Room (1930)
Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
People sat a lot closer to each other then. I wonder if our expectation of personal space has changed and if it has something to do with how large the rooms in our houses are now.
#115
Woman Packinghouse Worker From Tennessee With Three Of Her Four Children Eating Supper Of Fried Potatoes And Cornbread And Canned Milk. Belle Glade, Florida
axle f 1 year ago
...a certain element won't be satisfied until we've retreated just about exactly this far. fortunately, they're the type to end up with the worst end of this type of stick...
Madame Beajeau 1 year ago
Not much difference now as it was then. Nothing has changed, it should start here by more support
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
I admire courage and resourcefulness on the part of this determined Mama.
#116
McDonald's Menu In 1960
#117
New York City Around 1960
#118
Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game In San Diego, 1992
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Well I wouldn't expect to see this image in a "history" book, unless we have a very generous definition of history
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
32 years ago. We consider the fall of the Berlin wall history, and that was only two years earlier.
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#119
An Old-School KFC Menu
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
5 pieces of chicken serves 2 hungry people? So insane portion sizes in the US came later?
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Yes we eventually figured out that if we gave people a lot for their money it would give all of you yet another reason to look down your noses at us and we figured HEY why not? (And for the billionth time it's common to take home leftovers here)
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Two Young Women Walking Along Broadway Between 48th And 49th Streets. New York (1969) What Stands Out?
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Clean sidewalks, trash in the bin. No black gum wads everywhere. People still cared about looking dressed and groomed. No phones in hands!
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Well they may be rarely seen in history books, but we can be assured we will always see them on BP
[>.<]/ 1 year ago
I think I saw 2 pictures that I haven't seen on BP in the last month.
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Love those. They're "proofs of life". Most, if not all, of these people are dead, now, and none of them were famous but they lived, they laughed, they loved, they cried. And all contributed, in their small way, to shaping the world we now live in.
Zoran Pualic 1 year ago
Annik, nicely said! Most of them are now forgotten and from some even grandchildren are dead... Just images frozen in time!
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Patti Golden 1 year ago
Just an observation, did anyone notice when the subject of the photo was black they would describe them as beautiful, adorable, gorgeous etc and when they are white they would just state children or family, nothing about their looks. Check it out, it is weird.
V copp 1 year ago
Yep thought the same bet who put this 💩together was ethnic
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Carolyn Legg 1 year ago
Beautiful People, thank you. Amazing information of female fiefighters in London.
Dariusz M. D. 1 year ago
The same photographs recycled again and again without any forethought. Completely random. Editorial disaster.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Well they may be rarely seen in history books, but we can be assured we will always see them on BP
[>.<]/ 1 year ago
I think I saw 2 pictures that I haven't seen on BP in the last month.
Load More Replies... Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Love those. They're "proofs of life". Most, if not all, of these people are dead, now, and none of them were famous but they lived, they laughed, they loved, they cried. And all contributed, in their small way, to shaping the world we now live in.
Zoran Pualic 1 year ago
Annik, nicely said! Most of them are now forgotten and from some even grandchildren are dead... Just images frozen in time!
Load More Replies... Patti Golden 1 year ago
Just an observation, did anyone notice when the subject of the photo was black they would describe them as beautiful, adorable, gorgeous etc and when they are white they would just state children or family, nothing about their looks. Check it out, it is weird.
V copp 1 year ago
Yep thought the same bet who put this 💩together was ethnic
Load More Replies... Carolyn Legg 1 year ago
Beautiful People, thank you. Amazing information of female fiefighters in London.
Dariusz M. D. 1 year ago
The same photographs recycled again and again without any forethought. Completely random. Editorial disaster.
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