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116 Of The Oldest Color Photos Showing What The World Looked Like 100 Years Ago
When you think of old photos or historical pictures, you naturally think in terms of black and white, but as you can see from these stunning vintage photos from the turn of the 20th century, color pictures have been around for a lot longer than you think.
Before 1907, if you wanted a color photograph, you (well, a professional colorist) basically had to color it using different dyes and pigments. Still, two French brothers called Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionized all that with a game-changing process that they called the Autochrome Lumière. Using dyed grains of potato starch and light-sensitive emulsion, they could produce color in vintage photography without the need for additional colorization. Despite being difficult to manufacture and somewhat expensive, the process was very popular among amateur photographers. As a result, one of the world's first books of color photography was published using the Autochrome Lumière technique.
The brothers revolutionized the world of color photography until Kodak took things to a whole new level with the invention of Kodachrome film in 1935, a lighter and more convenient alternative that quickly made the Autochrome Lumière obsolete (although its popularity continued in France up until the 1950s). Kodachrome was also eventually overtaken by the rise of digital photography (Kodak stopped manufacturing Kodachrome in 2009), which is now by far the world's most popular way to take pictures. Still, modern advances in photographic technology wouldn't have been possible without the hard work of early pioneers like Auguste and Louis Lumière. Scroll down for a collection of stunning historical photos in color using their groundbreaking technique.
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Christina In Red, 1913
Nancy E 8 years ago
I know she is wearing a bathing suit . What a difference in mores' today !
Keith Verret 8 years ago
Morality is in the mind of the viewer not the responsibility of the viewed
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Mark Matheson 8 years ago
It looks like it could have been taken now rather than 1913. Old is like new
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
I love that she she has skinned knees and...an ankle bracelet?
Dave Wheatley 8 years ago
The first one "Christina In Red, 1913" was taken at Durdle Door in Dorset, England, and has been flipped left to right. first-colo...537acd.jpg 
BusLady 7 years ago
Slightly different angle, but still looks the same 105 years later.
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Thea Evans 8 years ago
In my humble opinion... All these photos have a quality that today's equipment cannot measure up to. The lighting and colour are beautiful and oh so natural!
James Metalarc 8 years ago
You are right . As a musician we are sticklers about using vintage as opposed to modern. And I have seen more and more photographers embracing these values my question is why did the equipment makers ever try to change things in the first place ?
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Stuart Lloyd 8 years ago
This picture has been reversed. That is the famous Durdle Door in Dorset behind her, but it is the wrong way round.
Gordon Hall 6 years ago
It's called compositional technique. Our eyes scan naturally from left to right, so turning the picture around makes it more comfortable to "read." If it were purely a record shot, your complaint would be valid.
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Warren Jackson 8 years ago
Two years ago when these photos first became popular I tried to find info on Christina. Mervyn O'Gorman who made these photos,(and there are better one's than this BTW) was Christina's uncle, not father. Christina was a visiting Irish cousin. I gather Christina was a lonely girl, and was flattered her uncle thought her pretty enough for photos. And yes, this is a swimsuit. Oh, and Christina was twelve. O'Gorman himself was an important guy, and famous during his lifetime. He was an engineer and involved in both auto-racing and aviation. However, I had a hard time finding any info on her after the first World War. It's possible she died young. Many did during those years. I'd love to hear that I'm wrong if anyone out there knows what became of her?
Alys Cambray 7 years ago
Mervyn O'Gorman wasn't Christina's uncle,Warren. She was the daughter of his neighbours, Edwyn & Mary Bevan. Christina never married. She was born in 1897 and died in 1981 at Stoke Hammond near Milton Keynes.
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Helga Daalmans 8 years ago
wauw, beautiful picture. It also slipped my mind that back then there were no plastics!! Oh clean oceans and clean shores...
Seamus O'Dolan 8 years ago
Not necessarily Miss Helga. It may look clear, but they were poring everything from mercury, to caustic chemicals to raw sewage into both the rivers and the ocean itself.
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Flower Street Vendor, Paris, 1914
Ruth Ann Ryan 8 years ago
Beautiful. How clean the streets are. Thought streets were littered with horse poop etc. that many years ago.
Julia Mclain 8 years ago
So beautiful. One of my favorite things about this photo are the ornately paneled store windows. I LOVE to watch silent movies on Turner classics (every Sunday night). Until this present century, every thing was beautiful because everything was made by hand (pre industrial revolution). It seems every window frame or door was different in some way. Those were the days also of wall paper. Every room (even little shanties) had art nouveau wall paper. It always makes me want to jump into the television to see what colors clothing and interiors were back then.I think we have some kind of conception that our sense o f color is more psychedelic and crazy than any other ages but when you see fashion, textiles, etc.) from other ages...you see the strangest most beautiful color variations far surpassing modern day color sensations.
Sunshines' Shadow (Angel Grimes) 8 years ago
I think maybe because the colors were more natural and not chemical that we get the true hue and not something overly contrasted.
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James Boster 8 years ago
I would have said "Street Flower Vendor." But yes, both she and the flowers are beautiful.
Maggie Collins 8 years ago
Can you imagine what minds were blown in 1914 when they saw this color photo??
#3
Heinz And Eva On The Hillside, 1925
Whiteninja Black 3 years ago
There is some weird black spot on the right side
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Sisters Sitting In A Garden Tying Roses Together, 1911
sharron lynn parsons 3 years ago
Yes very, I wonder if they were hand made ???
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Nancy E 8 years ago
This is so sweet, &, I'm sure this picture is a collectable . Thank goodness ,today, we have no wrinkle, non iron clothing.
Flora Polvado 8 years ago
And if we do have to iron, the iron plugs in and weighs less than 20pounds:D
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Greg Hoggarth 8 years ago
Shows that blue really was the colour for girls back then, and not pink like it is now.
Rose Hogue 8 years ago
Sweet girls doing things together. Their hair is in the same style and matching dresses. My mom did this to my sisters and me.
#5
Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914
John L 8 years ago
Its just too bad that those wonderful buildings on left and right are no longer standing. :(
Laura Gray 8 years ago
they saved the windmill and brought down that beautiful architecture - please tell me it is because of WWII!
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Kim Lawson 8 years ago
I can understand why they made a movie about it. It seems so whimsical.
Izolda Bronstein 8 years ago
I've never realised it was so small. Where did they fit the stage and the stalls?
Long Joan Silver 8 years ago
I've been curious as to what "Moulin Rouge" meant. Just googled the meaning. It means "Red Mill", for those of you who don't already know that
Laura Herzog 8 years ago
I wish people appreciated old buildings and worked as hard at restoration as they do destruction .
Barbara Connelly 8 years ago
I hope there will be a trend in future for preserving beautiful old or historic buildings like the one on the left, rather than demolishing them.
Sarah Lindrey 8 years ago
What a stunning photo. Too bad no effort was made to preserve the surrounding buildings.
#6
Daydreams, 1909
Dominik Daggelinckx 8 years ago
Or John William Waterhouse.. 006-john-w...e7a4e7.jpg 
#7
Musing (Mrs. A. Van Besten), C. 1910
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
It does look like a Renoir, doesn't it?The chiaroscuro is really good for what must be a relatively primitive camera...
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Margaret Duncan 6 years ago
If the woman were holding a baby, this would look like a Mary Cassatt painting.
Jeroen Roozendaal 6 years ago
Wow, this is great! Including her surroundings. The kind of couch I still see at my grandmother's house, but then it was in fashion.
#8
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1914
Ani Asnever 8 years ago
Wow! This photo is most remarkable for the shot of the old Trocadero palace, seen through the tower's arch! It hasn't been there for 80 years.
varwenea 8 years ago
Thanks for that comment. I was just wondering what that building was!
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Scott Sheppard 8 years ago
By the way, all of that ornate iron work is just decoration, not supporting structure. It was originally absent but people were afraid to walk under the structure, so it was added to make it look more sturdy.
Neteru 8 years ago
Thanks Ted Mosby! (Actually that's pretty interesting) XD
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Julia Mclain 8 years ago
Have heard so many references to the Trocadero in old movies. Always wondered what it was. Well it was a music hall in the form of a palace. Underneath it was a fantastical aquarium. The aquarium was fashioned like an underground cavern replete with stalactites and stalagmites.
Rebekah Saum Young 8 years ago
It's much prettier in this picture than now because of all the fencing and vendors. It actually looks peaceful here.
Lynn Perraud 8 years ago
Amazing! I don't wish to sound disrespectful, but has anyone explained the UFO-like images to both the left and the right of the tower?
Ron Montgomery 1 year ago
Notice the flying black orb to the left of the tower. Wonder what that was?
James Richardson 3 years ago (edited)
What’s amazing about this famous structure is not only was it meant to only be temporary when it first was completed Parisians hated it and thought it was an eyesore. Just think how different the world would be had they gotten their wish and they dismantled it shortly after. They really have done a masterful job of upkeep. Normally iron structures don’t hold up well but they have done a great job and maintaining it.
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A Girl Holds A Doll Next To Soldiers' Equipment In Reims, France, 1917
Oscar 8 years ago
You could write a whole novel based of this one picture!
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Ged Maybury 8 years ago
"Just imagine the story behind this!" - Diksha Deshpande (one day ago). Hmmm.... Something that's easy to forget is that photographers almost always set these up. Especially in pre-digital days when one exposure carried a considerable monetary cost, the photo had to have *impact*, it had to tell a story. but maybe the story here was simply this: The military equipment was stacked here. The photographer asked the girl to sit with her doll, and also asked the soldiers to step out of frame. The were happy to oblige (photographers have a lot of power!), and the exposure was taken. Everyone around thought it was a good lark. Girl went home. Probably never saw it.
Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
That is a good observation about the value of a single photo in those days, and probably spot on about what happened... maybe a couple soldiers waiting at a bus stop or something. Ah those Berthier rifles... who but the French would go through the effort to design a repeating combat rifle, then give it 3 shot capacity?
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Joyce Hearn 7 years ago
Funny I looked at the soldiers equipment and thought wouldn't it be something if it belonged to my grandfather. The war in France was still ongoing, and he met my grandmother in Paris. And then you see a little girl outside playing with her doll, like everything is ok, and she is now safe. Apparently people could go on with activities while the war went on around them. Even if the photogrefer set it up the way things were going is what he captured. Soldiers making kids feel safe and who was responsible for it. My grandparents were married in Paris Dec 6 1918.
Cathie Bingham Drapalikova Jarvis 6 years ago
I love this! My great uncle was there in WW1. KIA on July 28, 1918
#10
The Grenata Street Army, 1915
Kristina Sjögren 8 years ago
This is not just a very good photo – it also tells a whole story. It is funny, while at the same time reminding us of some very dark history.
Max Lindenman 8 years ago
Those mock--up warplanes weren't much more sophisticated than the actual item.
Kwesi Marcano 6 years ago
lol ironically im sure the people who lived then would say the same thing about now ... the grass is always greener
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Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
It seems there is a propeller spinning at the front... sort of a reddish blur?
Jeff Thies 8 years ago
That's a Taube (dove), very early German plane that didn't make it 6 months into WWI. Fascinating picture.
Nick McKinney 8 years ago
Seems impossible that The Grenata Street Army picture was taken in 1915 - a mono-wing airplane with a wheel? Seems a few years ahead of it's time...
Mehdi Mazouz 8 years ago
The very first operationnal fighting airplanes of the French army were all mono-wings (Morane-Saulnier Type H, L and N) and serving from 1914 to 1915. The Germans quickly made two counterparts: the famous Fokker Eindecker and the Pfalz E1, also mono-wings. The biplane-type fighters were massively produced mostly after 1915. Before 1916, most of the operationnal biplanes were only used for reconnaissance and bombing-raids, while fighters were monoplanes but were too tricky to fly in pursuit, and so they switched later to biplanes which were more nimble and more sturdy ;)
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Carolyn Blakeslee 8 years ago
So sweet! That reminds me of the dime-operated mechanical "ponies" that we rode outside the five-and-dime store when my siblings and I were children.
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Among The First Coloured Pictures Ever Taken By Louis Lumière, 1907
Melanie Deysenroth 8 years ago
I was thinking Renoir. Perhaps a bit of both!
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Linda Carmody 6 years ago
I would love to have this on my wall to see it all the time, so peaceful.
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
Kind of looks like the carousel horses from Mary Poppins will come bounding through at any moment!
#12
Two Girls On A Balcony, 1908
sharron lynn parsons 3 years ago
I love the clothing, back in that era !!!
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Faylyn Hillier 6 years ago
You can tell the oldest one is smart and mischievous and the little one wants to be just like the older one.
Kimberly Stevens 6 years ago
I love how the green of the plants offsets the green of the window shades and the blue and purples are so vivid. The looks on the girls faces are so beautiful!
Geraldine Fawcett 2 years ago
They must have been very wealthy. The older girl is wearing a wristwatch.
#13
Young Girl Amidst Marguerites, C. 1912
Teleri Nyfain 8 years ago
I have the pattern for this style dress & have made it (as a costume) :D Nice to see it authenticated :D
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Amy McDaniel 6 years ago
That's me in a previous life. Not really, but that's the way this photo makes me feel.
#14
Air Balloons, Paris, 1914
Sofia Dumitru 8 years ago
Look at the ghost effect of the dozens of peoplemon the groundfloor...
AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
Ha, I hadn't even noticed till I read this! :'D
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Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
Beautiful. This is inside le Grand Palais in Paris--to think it's that huge it accommodates hot-air balloons!
Donna Rivera 8 years ago
What a marvelous, marvelous time to be living in. I dont believe that its just Romantic Nostalgi. It really was wonderful. And since the Titanic....its a time we shall never see again. No wonder weare so obsessed with the story of Titanic....we seem to want to go back in time and change the outcome. But it can never be.
Mark Sinclair 8 years ago
Europe went to hell in 1914 and millions upon millions died in the few years following. Not a time I would want to go back to.
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The Grand Palais, Paris. Probably 1909. The photographeur was Léon Gimpel. I'd love to know if the balloons were air-filled (and thus suspended) or whether they were filled with hydrogen or town-gas. 'Town-gas' was lighter than air, and often used in early ballooning.
Bruce Mardle 6 years ago
The nearest 2 balloons certainly look like gas balloons to me (not hot air balloons). I dunno what gas they'd have used. I don't know when helium balloons were invented. The US had a virtual monopoly on helium for a long time.
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Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
Does anybody else see the ghosts of the people who died trying to fly machines, in this pic?
#15
Charlie Chaplin, 1918
John L 8 years ago
Which reminds me, I haven't watched a Chaplin flick in a loong time now. :(
BusLady 7 years ago
Rent one. You won't regret it. I recently watched "Modern Times"
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#16
Autochrome Of Mark Twain, 1908
Rodger Rudolph 6 years ago
Mark Twain, encouraged a dying and broke Ulysses Grant to write his memoirs so that his wife would live comfortably on proceeds.
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
he..... AAALLLLSOOO HASSS a MUSTACHE...... Screenshot...1085df.png 
Red Riding Hood 3 years ago
So this was where Burt Reynolds' inspiration on how to rock a badass mustache orginially came from, huh???? Hmmm...Interesting😉
I am Grim Reaper 5 years ago
It’s sad to think about most of the people in these photographs are dead...... :/
#17
Christina In Red, 1913
Kessily Lewel 6 years ago
This is one of Mervyn O'Gorman's most famous subjects. He took this in 1913 in Dorset and people have been trying to find out who she is ever since.
Beth Richards 6 years ago
Here's a very interesting article on who Christina is. https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/solved-the-mystery-identity-of-our-social-media-starlet-christina/
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Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
Yep, definitely would hit that. I wonder if the photog partook of this lovely redhead after the photo shoot?
#18
Outdoor Market, Paris, 1914
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
There are still street markets like this in Paris if you know where to look. They aren't all that hard to find, either. If you see vans parked on the street that have spectacular graffiti all over them, there's a market nearby. The graffiti on the vans gets competitive and some of it is spectacular.
Flora Polvado 8 years ago
IfI ever get to go to Paris, I will look for them! Thanks Aunt Messy!
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Janel Leah 8 years ago
Does anyone else see the giant snail? Behind the street lamp on a balcony. Made my day.
julien 3 years ago
it's a restaurant and still there today : escargot-m...f7cec6.jpg 
Robert Smaus 8 years ago
This appears to be one heck of a flower market! A really amazing photo. Wish there was more info on it.
Crystal Hunter 3 years ago
Absolutely magnetic! I would love to stroll between the many carts and stalls, smelling the fragrantand heavenly floral aroma of roses, lavender, Lilly flowers and the such. To see the bonnet laden heads and secret smiles of pride as the Parisienne ladies market their wares. Such a time and place it must have been....
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
me: wow this is really pretty lets comment that this is pretty. my brain: flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers
#19
Woman Smoking Opium, 1915
Dorrie Ratzlaff 8 years ago
drug culture is so much fun and so cool....my grandmother was an opium smoker, vancouver, bc, canada...she was dead by the time my mother was 12, which orphaned my mother at that tender age...but her family took her in which was better than being tricked out to pedophiles to pay for the addiction...my mother was born in 1916...around the time of this photo... drug culture has always been big in Vancouver, as an import/export city. My grandmother died under suspicious circumstances, she was found dying having ingested mercuric oxide in the Hotel Vancouver. Probably preferable to a life of prostitution to pay for the opium (which wasn't illegal then, but it was still harmful, legal or not...case in point, my neglected mother and her sister who would spend two weeks at a time alone at home while mummy went "partying". Drug scene and suspicious disappearances and deaths of women still going on in Vancouver, but it only counts as worthy of protest if you're indigenous. Drugs so much fun!
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Ksenia Raspoutine 6 years ago
The problem with opium is, you can't use it 'recreationally', Danny. People really have no idea what opium is, huh...
Evelyn Ann 3 years ago
I am in rehab for pain pills/heroin and there are a few elderly asian people there. They move here to be with family and are absolutely bewildered that they can't buy/use the medicine (opium) that is commonplace in their home country. There is no recreational use. Its all or nothing.
#20
Two Girls In Oriental Costume, 1908
AsHaysha Salam 8 years ago
Can people really stop with the appropriation, it's clothing !!! Should we stop eating food from different cultures or watch different
Rich Laxton-Friesen 6 years ago
If they are wearing it to mock the culture, it's wrong. No question. If people from "non-white" cultures wear "white" clothing, is it appropriation? No one cares, it seems. No big deal. If "white" people wear "non-white" clothing, it's hated as "appropriation". Appropriation means theft. How does this make sense, when if it's reversed, it's not a big deal? The end result, if you look at it, is that everyone is encouraged to "be white". If you actually look at the history of cultural development, every culture has always borrowed from other cultures. People have always adopted styles from other cultures. This is how cultures develop. In actual fact, we are all just humans. "Cultural appropriation" is a lie that only deepens divisions between us. Mockery is wrong, but if someone loves the look of a different culture and they are respectful towards that culture, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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Michaline Rezler-Morrison 8 years ago
Yes, it is called a costume, Basil Thunder. cos·tume noun noun: costume; plural noun: costumes ˈkäsˌt(y)o͞om/ 1. a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular country or historical period. "authentic Elizabethan costumes" synonyms:outfit, garments, (set of) clothes, ensemble; More dress, clothing, attire, garb, uniform, livery; informalgetup, gear, togs, threads; formalapparel; archaichabit, habiliments, raiment "each contestant wore a costume depicting her state" a set of clothes worn by an actor or other performer for a particular role or by someone attending a masquerade. "a nun's costume" a set of clothes, especially a woman's ensemble, for a particular occasion or purpose; an outfit. verb verb: costume; 3rd person present: costumes; past tense: costumed; past participle: costumed; gerund or present participle: costuming käsˈt(y)o͞om,ˈkäst(y)o͞om,ˈkästəm/ 1. dress (someone) in a particular set of clothes
Cornelia Benavidez 6 years ago
Good grief, in Japan most people wear modern western type clothes and wear traditional clothes on formal occasions. If invited to a event in many cultures if you wear traditional clothes and or bring traditional food and drink you delight your hosts because you are being respectful and honoring their culture. It is when one uses another's cultures customs and or religious beliefs to pass yourself off to gain unearned respect and influence for personal profit that is not right. The whole appropriation issue has gone way out of bounds sadly because there has been so much of it.
Colleen Gayle 6 years ago
And, reportedly this photo was “taken” c 1908. Edwardian era enjoyed a resurgence of appreciation of all things Japanese and/or Asian, which began shortly before the Mikado c 1885? This costume would be common even 20 years later. Take a look at the backgrounds of some Mary Cassatt paintings, the lilies, a Singer Sargent painting of a woman in kimono. It was very common.
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Morgan Futura 6 years ago
I s**t you not...I'm wearing a kimono wile reading these hilarious comments.
Missy Woodruff 6 years ago
This photo was taken at a time when the white-world was being exposed to other cultures--yes, appropriation occurred--but it also was a gracious way of APPRECIATING different cultures. Today, appropriation means a disregard for other cultures' sovereignty, whether one thinks one is "honoring" it or degrading it. That is wrong. However, demanding that we stop eating food from other cultures, or watch programs featuring different cultures (assume by your name that you are from a "different-from-white-Judeo-Christian" culture) severely limits our ability to live peacefully in the same world. Salaam.
AsHaysha Salam 8 years ago
If say a Japanese man wanted to wear a kilt learn bagpipes and eat Hagus ( I'm Scottish) I'd find no offence in it,
Alexandra Preston 6 years ago
In anime and manga, Western cultures are constantly "appropriated". I'm part German and am not offended by Attack on Titan, for example. Japan is by no means "vulnerable" - they are not impoverished, oppressed or erased - unless you're talking about the Ainu, so taking on aspects of Japanese culture is no different.
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Gustáv Kyselica Jr. 6 years ago
The amount of r******d dipshits under this photo is staggering.
AsHaysha Salam 8 years ago
Programs? Why is it soo wrong to want to want to try different aspects of different cultures!!?
Ruth Ann Ryan 8 years ago
Commonly called a kimono. The rules for kimono are strict as they are considered formal wear. Can also be known as a yukata known as kitsuke, rules for wearing yukata are more relaxed. Young and unmarried wear colors often bright. Black is chosen for married women. The formal kimono, the tome-sode, is often edged in gold, heavily embroidered. Widows usually wear greys, browns or blacks.
AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
Is it the same 2 girls as earlier? I think they're getting a bit fed up by now, but they must've valued these colour mementos when they were older, assuming they survived the upcoming Wars, Flu epidemic etc :/
#21
Van Besten Painting In His Garden, 1912
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
heyyyy is that.... oh wait, i thought he was a raisen... (srry if this is rude i cant help it i like memes)
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
A photo of a man painting a picture of a girl looking at a man taking a photo of a man painting a....ok you get it..........
Mark Hornak 3 years ago
Rick...you're an asshole. I thought of saying more but that probably sums you up best...asshole.
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Amanda Brendtro 6 years ago
Vegetables and fruits have limited flowering times, flowers for the sake of flowers help bees.
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This is a traditional English garden, you plant everything close so there's little room for weeds. And please stop the Negativity, Nancy!
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Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mostar, 1913
Christina O'Neill 6 years ago
I love the figures on the bridge who appear to be waving at the photographer, who probably has what was then major-photography-gear to take this lovely pic.
John Childs 6 years ago
The shell-pocked wall to the left is a grim reminder that Yugoslavia was war-torn long before the destruction of the bridge in the early 90s. Bosnia-Herzegovina has suffered especially. The shell holes (if that's what they are) may have come during the earlier Balkan wars of 1912-1914, or even earlier independence struggles against Ottoman rule in the 19th century. The pain experienced by the peoples of the former Yugoslavia has been at times unimaginable.
Vivienne Earl Infante 6 years ago
A moment in time before the trigger for the war in 1914, the assassination of the heir to the Habsburg throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by the Bosnian-Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June.
Dodd Martin 8 years ago
This is the reconstructed bridge taken in 2005. P1020341-5...24e65a.jpg 
Kim Lorton 8 years ago
It's so sad, all that war destroys. In the name of faith, peace, ego, and progress. So many architectural places have been lost to war, and time..
steve t (stevie2x) 2 years ago
The bridge as it is after visiting in 2019, people can now jump off with training but its higher than it looks. IMG_6786-6...6-jpeg.jpg 
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Eva And Heinz On The Shore Of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, C. 1927
Teleri Nyfain 8 years ago
Very little to date this - anywhere from 1900 to now. I like photos like this that emphasize how the little things people do remain the same over time.
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Annabell 8 years ago
Weird sentence... sorry, my english doesn't get better when I'm tired 😬
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Maria Godebska 6 years ago
This girl strikes such a confident pose - i hope she always faced life like this.
B.r. Hutchinson 8 years ago
The boy is thinking, "Oh damn, Germany is getting riled up again. So much for my young adulthood!"
Ricardo Leite 5 years ago
This is Heinz Paneth, who in the 1950s changed his name to Heinz Post, professor of Philosophy. Last record I get here is of his retirement in 1983, and he was still alive in 1992. Cannot find a date of death - if at all!
Derek Hatton 2 years ago
That girl is beautiful in a photographic way. She was probably a stunner in her adulthood.
Mark Hornak 3 years ago
Hitler was a stain in his shorts when this was taken!
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Girl In A Garden With Hollyhocks, 1908
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
it might be partially due to the fact that the air was cleaner 100 years ago, so maybe flowers just grew better
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Anne Nadel-Walbridge 8 years ago
This girl probably saw her mother with that camera and rolled her eyes. Etheldreda sure loved to photograph her children.
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
Isn't that the girl who was identified as Etheldreda in another photo?
Nicole Wells 8 years ago
Etheldreda is the photographer, I think that is either Janet or Iris - her daughters.
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Nancy Copus Williams 3 years ago
My Great Grandmother Nellie Steines called them The Last Rose of Summer.
Linda Carmody 6 years ago
They grow like this in UK, seeming to have no place to sprout from, out of little cracks and crevices.
#25
Sweden, Near Gagnef (Mother And Daughter In Traditional Clothes), 1910
Bjorn Palenius 8 years ago
My Grandmother was from this town, born in 1901! Maybe she know these girls!
#26
Else Reading By The Nile, 1920
Anne Nadel-Walbridge 8 years ago
They were probably British nobles stationed in the middle east during the British Colonization.
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Rachel Brekhus 8 years ago
Apparently people of color appearing in Peneth's pictures, however prominent, interesting or numerous they may be, do not merit a mention in the caption. It is the woman in the foreground, in the sun, who interests me.
Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
A) it seems the subject matter is the boy in the dress and not the a*****e in the background. But yet the racist attitudes continue to ignore the people of color and focus on the white person. B) How do I know this? Because I'm pretty sure that boys' name isn't Elsa and he doesn't have a book in his hand much less reading it. Unless he identifies as Elsa?
Alif Ghain 5 years ago
In fact they were not. As much as this view seems tranquil, between 1917 and 1923 Egypt was in a political turmoil In 1919 there was a revolution against the occupation-sponsored regime. Not every one in Egypt had such a lovely house on the Nile. Egyptians as well as poor foreigners from all over the world, including working class Europeans from Italy, Greece, Armenia, Russia, the and from the Caucasus, and even from England were having difficult times. It's never been easy for people in general, unlike how a moment capture din a photo may impress you, and more so in communities suffering occupation; to this day.
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Arry Murphey 8 years ago
Having been to modern Egypt I can say that it is not this clean and beautiful any more, too bad...look how serene it was.
#27
Woman And Girl By A Brook, 1910
John Nelson 8 years ago
No. It's just the color process. if you do any Photoshop work, you know that after two rounds of filters, things start looking a little less real.
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Sad but likely true if it's a real place. I assumed it was a sub-division but a parking lot works too.
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Ruth Meszaros 8 years ago
Now we can see how closely the paintings of that period were to life, or at least to the photos of life scenes.
Michael Shepherd 8 years ago
This would actually be the other way around, as it comes at the end of Pictorialist movement, where photographers were using various techniques to emulate paintings.
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#28
Family Portrait At Roannay, Belgium, 1913
Lara B. 8 years ago
There's always that one family member that can't stand still for photos (girl in the right window) :D. But beautiful picture anyway :)
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
Boys and men in front, please! Gels and women, inside looking out--yes, thank you. (No wonder the girl was too restless to stay still for 60 seconds!)
Jean Heffron 8 years ago
Amazing that the males are all upfront while the women behind and even inside. The tiniest boys seem to even outrank Mom.
Jean Heffron 8 years ago
Amazing how all the men are up front while the women not only behind but inside. Even the tiniest boys outrank Mom.
James Richardson 3 years ago
I’m sure glad mustaches fell out of popularity (though they’ve attempted a few comebacks over the last 100 years. It’s hilarious if you look at photos from the late 1800’s you’ll see like 10 guys lined up and every last one of them is sporting a mustache. I personally have always felt ridiculous if so show up somewhere dressed and looking identically to everyone else in the room.
Mark Karol-Chik 3 years ago
I look and wonder how their lives were affected from here til 1946.
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
This was the 23rd take of this photo. No one new that Aunt Bertha ( right window) had gone mad hard on the Shnapps the night before and had the shakes bad...real bad....
#29
The Neptune Fountain, Cheltenham, 1910
Paolo Paulus 6 years ago
Nice movement of water frozen forever. It makes those past years contemporary
Glenda Fordham 6 years ago
Loved this fountain. When living in Cheltenham in the mid-70's was member of Young Conservatives and to show our civic pride, we cleaned and polished it, landing us on the front page of the newspaper. So proud to take care of this beautiful and historic fountain.
ChrisAnn Esformes 8 years ago
I can picture the rainbows the photographer must've seen in the fountain spray... Beautiful.
Linda Brown 8 years ago
Great picture, the water looks beautiful the way the camera pictured it, wow
AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
Probably lost now? Like too much of UK old, lovelier, architecture
#30
An Autochrome Of Two Sisters, 1908
Nicole Wells 8 years ago
It's one of Etheldreda's daughters, I think their names were Iris (the one lying down) and Janet (sitting).
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Ann Melero 6 years ago
There is something odd about this photo. The older sister is resting her hand on the younger sister's hip/waist, with her hand resting on top of someone's fingers. It can't possibly be the younger sister's hand, because the collar of her sleeve (white part) is resting farther down her chest. where do the extra fingers come from?
Cherie 8 years ago
Was it a fashion to dress all the girls in the family in the same clothes? There are others in this collection that seem to suggest so.
Shelah Dow 8 years ago
I think if they made most of their own clothing, it would have been easier and probably more affordable to get a lot of one fabric bolt.
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#31
Apan (Young Samurai), 1912
B.r. Hutchinson 8 years ago
Oh the changes he would have seen...to go from a society like the outfit he has on represents, to WW2 where he might have been an officer in his 40s, to the resurgence of Japan in the 70s (if he lived).
Andie Cavanaugh 8 years ago
If he lived into up to 100 he would have only died 5 years ago.
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Heather Owen 8 years ago
This is of course long after the samurai era, which ended with the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The lad is dressed up, wearing a costume, though the armour is probably genuine. He seems to be standing against the outer wall of a castle.
#32
Autochrome Of Else Paneth On A Camel, 1913
Mark Hornak 3 years ago
Sensitive about what? You certainly don't see whites pulling the camel with them on it do you? Of course not...it's perfectly natural. Some things will NEVER change.
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my stupid brain, once again: CAMELS CAMELS DO YOU KNOE THERE ARE CAMELS DO U HUH HUH HUUUH
dlee t 6 years ago
I didn't even notice the white girl on the camel. The kids are fascinating and the photographers' interest if not the titler. Playing in the desert means playing with camels as there is not a whole lot of tree house options.
Mark Hornak 3 years ago
It's as it should be..you sure as hell don't see white people pulling the camel with them on it now do you? Of course not.
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Chris Strickland 8 years ago
I agree. They should look up their names and add it to the caption.
#33
Japan, Kyoto, 1912
Nikki Scott 8 years ago
The girl in the middle... for a split second I thought her obi belt was see through
#34
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 1912
John L 8 years ago
I just want to reach out, grab one, and sink my teeth into the fresh bread while its still warm. :O
Jason Hook 8 years ago
Have you noticed the unintentional double entendre yet?
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Breddit 8 years ago
If the two man in the picture looking at the photographer passed their genes on to their great-grandchildren, I'd like to meet them!
Audrey Boniwell 8 years ago
Seeing the hard working Serbian baker and Turkish gents dressed in traditional wear in background, really brings history alive.
Veronica Kouwenhoven 8 years ago
On June 28, 1914, just two years later than this picture, prince Franz Ferdinand of Austria was murdered there. One thing led to another resulting in WW 1 breaking out that same year.
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
MY STUPID DUMB BRAIN THAT KNOWS NOTHING AND IS SUPER DUMB AND WEIRD: bred... bred...? b-bre..... Breeesd.... BREDBEREDBREDBDERDDDD!!!!
#35
Mother Of Seven Making Fringes For Knitted Shawls, Galway, Ireland, 29 May 1913
Crazy Cow Lady 8 years ago
Fact about the cable knit sweaters/jumpers that Ireland is famous for: a lot fishermen in Ireland couldn't swim and each family had a unique pattern to their sweaters so that family members could be identified if they drowned while out at sea. This picture reminded me of that.
AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
Same in Flamborough, Yorkshire (UK) too : )
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Stina Kolling 8 years ago
I think it's sad that we don't know her name. Her identity is "mother of seven". Not a person in her own right, but defined by the amount of children that she bore.
Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
I don't know that I'd call that her identity... I think they are just emphasizing how hard her life was. To my ears your comment comes across like searching for victimhood.
Load More Replies... Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Scary fact: many women had severe burn scars on their legs due to doing laundry over an open fire, their long skirts would catch fire.
Aimee Morgan 6 years ago
That's her apron. It was worn to protect her dress from damage.
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#36
Louis Lumière's Daughter And Her Dolls, 1913
rakelgoj ludrahs 5 years ago
she's the daughter of lumiere lmaoo. what tf do you expect?
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Alei Griffieon 8 years ago
Ha ha ha yrp those dolls probably look like Anabel now
Load More Replies... Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
Hahaha, Lumiere took a crappy pic of his own kid. I bet she was pissed when she got older.
rakelgoj ludrahs 5 years ago
did your uncle touch you or something? lmao. this is a 107 year old photo you clown lmao. this was a stunning picture back then
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Brooklyn Gal 8 years ago
What is wrong with people having some money? Yes, the world goes round & round. Stop looking at everything through the eyes of LACK, and Bless with love the things you do have. That's the best, surest, fastest way to have MORE. Appreciate the photo flow what it is and stop criticizing everything.
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Lanchester 38hp Tourer, 1913
Donna Rivera 8 years ago
I love the way they had to sit. The posture. I love the authenticity in these photos. What an absolute treasure. If they could know what we would be saying now...they might think we were from outerspace!
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Stina Kolling 8 years ago
Just a note: if you're wearing a tight-laced corset, you only have 2 options when it comes to sitting: bolt upright, or reclining like the above gentleman. Have to wonder if that may have had some sort of influence on the design.
Andrew Horning 5 years ago
Here you see the invention of the Formula 1 lay-down seating position. Or maybe there's a porcupine in his seat. Or he just got back surgery. Heck, I dunno...but he doesn't look very comfortable.
George Perrin 8 years ago
Back then you would by an engine and chassis then have a coach builder make you a custom body
James Richardson 3 years ago
I feel like it looks like they put the body on the frame backwards or something. Certainly doesn’t look to comfortable. I do love how you can see throughout recorded history people work with what they have and know. They knew horse wagons and thus early cars were basically wagons without horses. Skinny tires, wheels very close to the front and back. This is because just like actual evolution the evolution of technology doesn’t start from scratch each time, it works with what it has and goes from there. This is the same reason why we and all the other vertebrates have nerves taking weird out of the way paths to go a short distance or organs we no longer use.
#38
Porte Saint Denis, Paris, 1914
Shawn Trudeau 8 years ago
If you go to Google Maps and find the site, most if not all of the buildings are the same even the older looking house through the arch.
Natalie Long 8 years ago
yes, most of the buildings are the same. I am in Paris every two months.
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Terry Adcock 8 years ago
It's true! Go to Google Earth & put in the address 14 Rue de Faubourg Saint-Denis, Paris-- you'll see the same view! "Boulangerie" on the right, is still there, but the sign is different. There's also a huge van on the left side of the street blocking that view.
Holli Lyndora 6 years ago
That is such an imposing view! I looked up the Porte Saint Denis, and most of the modern images are from the other side, which is much more open. I did find one image that almost seems to be a modern remake of this image, taken from a similar location and angle. It is still just as imposing! It really does feel gate-like from this side.
#39
Joan In Red Riding Hood Cape With Basket, 1907
Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
I hope the wolf killed this little brat after the photo shoot...jus' sayin'
#40
Autochrome Of A Young Girl, 1910
Magdalene Green 8 years ago
This picture is dated wrong, with those shoes, the plimsoles, the hemline, dropped waist, and hairstyle, I would hazard a guess that this picture cannot be earlier than the earlier to mid twenties.
Nicole Wells 8 years ago
I think the proper guesstimate was 1915-1925. I think they said she was 11 when this one was taken of her. Her name was Iris.
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Flora Polvado 8 years ago
She may not be old enough for it to matter yet. Usually 15-16 was when the long skirts came out, just before their debut
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Girl With A Parasol Sitting On A Bench, 1908
Christina O'Neill 6 years ago
This is another one in which I marvel the quality of the resolution, and also how much detail is evident in the shadowed parts considering the glare of the light parts.
#42
Giant Oranges,paris, 1914
M O'Connell 8 years ago
Very interesting. I thought they only did weird inflatable stuff recently!
Karlis Streips 8 years ago
Maybe "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" was a ripoff from an earlier French film, "Attack of the Killer Oranges"? :)
Giovanna Caligiuri 6 years ago
I wonder if Rohal Dahl took inspiration for 'James and the Giant Peach' from here
Ville Ojajärvi 6 years ago
1914 there was no Gordon Bennett so my guess is that this is 1913 GB that took off from Paris October 12, 1913
#43
Egypt, Giza, 1913
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
They were right : the old egyptians did remodel the head to a pharaoh's head and it was probably a lions head first. Compare the erosion of the body with that of the head.
Desja Moryn 8 years ago
the erosion on the body is due to the fact that it was partially submerged in the Nile underwater and subject to its course and levels for hundreds of years. The head was not changed in any way until Napoleon showed up and blew it's African nose off. Facts from a Phd who studied Ancient Egyptian Science and Technology at the American Universiy in Cairo.
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Randy Sandknop 6 years ago
The entire body of the Sphinx was was dug out between 1925 and 1936, according to Ancient Egypt online. Yet this photo claims to have been taken in 1913. Someone somewhere is mistaken.
Chuck Shingledecker 4 years ago
Your dates are mistaken. Parts of it were beginning to be excavated as early as 1860. By the 1890s it pretty much looked as it does in this photo. Further, more official excavations happened in 1925, but it was already uncovered decades before. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/02/photos-great-sphinx-giza/606874/
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Andrew Washington 6 years ago
Proportions suggest this not a Lion and yes, reworked into a Pharaoah. AC9ED873-1...3-jpeg.jpg 
Flat Earth British Sub 6 years ago
There were 7 pyramids, and 2 were made of wood. Question is why were they removed?
Larry Roux 8 years ago
So the feet we see today are totally rebuilt? I knew they added protection layers, but didnt know the feet were totally missing. What we see today is more a "recreation"
#44
Galway, Ireland 1 May 1913
Oliver Gloxin 8 years ago
What looks quaint now depicts the absolute poverty of the Irish during that time. It's the reason there are so many of Irish descendancy in the U.S. today.
Alan O Dalaigh 8 years ago
you can still find plenty of houses like these in Ireland 10301174_1...2e462f.jpg 
Ruth Gadsby 6 years ago
Just imagine how damp it was when it rained the thatching has deteriorated quite badly and trying to keep warm in that cottage in winter must have been a hell of a challenge ? The floors were possibly compacted dirt no running water and no toilet . A hard life indeed ....
Brendan Greally 8 years ago
thatched roofs were common in the west of england and Wales, and Galway etc. My family had a house near Connemarra and because no one lived there for a few years the roof gave in. You need the fire going to keep it tinder dry else the whole house is destroyed. I went back to recover items under it and its sad noone lit the fire
Mary Johnson 2 years ago
The English invade their country in the 11th century and did all they could to annihilate the entire population. They took away their land and gave it to the aristocracy then the Irish had to pay rent for their own land to farm a measly 4 acres. The famine ( great hunger to the Irish) in the 1840’s was not the first potato crop failure to result in widespread hunger and death. The English did nothing useful to help them causing 1 million deaths in the country and another 1-2 million to emigrate. This is why there are so many Irish names around the world. Your comment is incredibly ignorant and racist and offensive to the Irish descendants in this country and around the world. Read a history book on this horrible history and get a clue. If anyone had a reason to hate another group it was the Irish hate of the English. It took them 800 years and abject poverty to get rid of the English and reclaim their country. It’s been less than a hundred years since they got rid of them in 1926.
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An Autochrome Of Etheldreda Janet Laing Daughter In A Garden, Holding A Brightly Coloured Bunch Of Pink Flowers, 1908
Sofia Dumitru 8 years ago
Just as thrilled as her contemporaries to be photographed by Mom, lol.
Jan Feline 3 years ago
I believe this is Janet Laing, and Etheldreda was her mother and the photographer.
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
heh, now try saying "Etheldrenda" 5 times fast... is cannot be done
#46
Mongolia, Near Ulaanbaatar (Buddhist Lama), 1913
#47
Traditional Irish Knitwear, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland 1 May 1913 (Left), 14 Year Old Girl From The Claddagh Wearing Traditional Claddagh Dress. Galway, Ireland, 26th May 1913 (Right)
Shelah Dow 8 years ago
I see 5, but I can tell why it'd look that way at first.
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#48
Lunch Of A French Soldier In Front Of A Damaged Library, 1st April 1917
Nuko Tenshimurasaky 8 years ago
in french "librairie" is a bookstore, so it's a mistake very current
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Metro, Paris, 1914
Grant O'Neil 8 years ago
Seems like maybe this photo might be later than 1914. My understanding is that the Adrian helmet was not introduced until 1915 (at least two of the soldiers in this photo seem to be wearing the helmets) and the all horizon blue colour seen here was not introduced until late 1914 (at the outbreak of the war French poilus were wearing red trousers, naturally this made them far too easy to see and contributed to heavier casualties)
Kate Sheehy 8 years ago
They are also wearing the lower leg wraps. So with the new leaves on the trees and the above notes, it can't be earlier than 1915 and could be 1916...
Load More Replies... julien 3 years ago
Twice ??? lol ! there were dozens of wars between " french" and "germans". the first one in 496 : the "germans" lost .
Load More Replies... Kim Lorton 8 years ago
To know your history, at its heart, provides the rest of us, with breathtaking pictures, in to the past! Thank you, Grant!
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
"The Germans are coming, the Germans are coming!!!"....whatevs........
Sharon Zingery 8 years ago
Is it correct that the sign for the Metropolitain is the same font as today?
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
They had no idea what they were getting into...Maybe that hungover guy in the front did.
Mark Sinclair 8 years ago
I wonder if any of these poilus made it beyond that year.
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Margate Beach, Blue Girl , 1915
Ana T. 8 years ago
i bet those people if the can travel to today present they will be surprise to see that beach full of people in bikinis and shorthorns lol " oh my god , they are almost naked"
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
are those lizards... or fish.... or shells.... or plants.... or.... idk, something???
Debra Hockley 6 years ago
My 1965 memories are there is no cliff on Margate beach; maybe nearby Cliftonville?
Jenny Milligan 6 years ago
I think it could be Cliftonville or Palm Bay Margate... just a bay away from the Margate main beach.
#51
The Family At The Lake, 1925
Izolda Bronstein 8 years ago
Hey, isn't this again our Eva and Heinz on vocation in the Alps? Not just some nameless "a family" ))
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
It's not "a" family.....it's "THE" family. Meaning it's the photographer's family.
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Mark Sutton 6 years ago
Eva: Oh man, I am getting soooo pissed off with all these holiday snaps.......
Heather Beaver 6 years ago
That little girls Eva....I'll bet she grew up to be quite a badass lol. In every pic she looks like she wants to beat you up! Lol.
Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
"Dorothy, grab the lake toy for the boy." "Which one? I can't see anything back here." "It's a giant wooden circle." "OOOH, the O-Ring. Got it."
#52
Palace Of Horticulture, Pan American Exposition, 1915
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Yes indeed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93Pacific_International_Exposition First I'd heard of it, and oh what a fabulous affair it was. LOVE those buildings!
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Tina Pfeiffer 5 years ago
My husband’s ancestors went to that expo, we have souvenirs from their trip.
Anita Trenner 6 years ago
This was actually called the Pan Pacific Exposition, and was supposed to unite the Americas, the Panama Canal just recently having been opened. These Expos morphed into the World's Fairs.
Debby Barry 8 years ago
San Francisco - For nine months in 1915, the Presidio's bayfront and much of today's Marina District was the site of a grand celebration of human spirit and ingenuity. Hosted to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition reflected the ascendancy of the United States to the world stage and was a milestone in San Francisco history.
#53
Highland Castle, Scotland, 1920
Keith Burrows 6 years ago
I surely would consider living in the UK if only Americans were aloud to live there. 😢
Georgia Love 6 years ago
Come over, you'd be very welcome. We have lots of Americans living here.
Load More Replies... Kim Lorton 8 years ago
Highland cattle! They are still around today, descendants of the first ones!
Team carrero 6 years ago
Balmoral isn't close to the sea like that. Looks like its either a massive loch or sea inlet in the rear x
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#54
Mrs. Warburg, 1915
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 8 years ago
Probably just cursed with resting b***h face. ;P
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Donna Rivera 8 years ago
In 5 years...the Flapper and Art Deco will dominate photograghy, Just THINK of it! What a RADICLE change!!
Nicole Wells 8 years ago
Beautiful dress! I love that she has glasses too, on some sort of chain perhaps?
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
She looks a bit cheesed that the photographer wouldn't let her hold the parasol to actually block the sun!
#55
St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice, 1925
Jerry Crutcher 4 years ago
This is a rare photo capture of a time slip. the intruding time period is obviously way more recent. I'd say maybe 1995. The two time periods pass each other in the space - time continuum and if they pass close enough, you can sometimes see into one from the other. Ever see a person on a cellphone in say a 1940s photo ? There you go, time slip.
Linda I 1 year ago
This photo is from 1925. Photography back then, was often a timelapse. But sure, its a time slip.
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Darius Ker 5 years ago
I’ve been there, looks so much different, not the colour but the building
#56
Market Stalls Outside An Egyptian Ruin, 1913
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
"But Dad, who's going to want to look at some old crumbly buildings and buy cheap plastic trinkets???
MysticalMan 8 years ago
The tops of the columns remind me a bit of the statues on Easter Island.
#57
Children By The Breakwater, 1908
AuntieCreed 6 years ago
Has anyone else noticed that lots of the young girls in these photos are wearing bright BLUE? Hmm...it's almost like the whole "pink is for girls" thing didn't exist back then. :) Oh that's right, it didn't.
Flat Earth British Sub 6 years ago
What is the structure behind them??? I don't see that at the beach!
#58
Galway, Ireland, 1913
AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
I wonder what lives they had, & their names - Just before the 'Great War'; wonder if the lad volunteered, 'in seek of adventure' : (
Tony Cabré 8 years ago
Lucky enough the mother is holding the small girl's head for her not to move.
Penny Thompson 8 years ago
Interesting who had shoes and who didn't. Doesn't appear to be age related. Also, all but the youngest girl's dress are the same style.
Max Lindenman 8 years ago
I'm guessing that depended on who was doing what job when the photographer happened to show up. He does seem to have caught the family in the middle of a working day. Those straw hats look decorative, but they were also very useful for keeping the sun out the girls' faces (though it's news to me that the sun in Ireland ever shone so strongly)>
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Владиміръ Смѣловъ 3 years ago
The same photo but with the restored color rendition. Galway-Ire...1a01bf.jpg 
Mary-Jane Garnett 8 years ago
Lovely to see the photos of Galway as that's where my maternal grandfather came from.
Thea Evans 8 years ago
And mom looking like she's one of the siblings! (If that is mom.) Big families are awesome! Never a dull moment!
#59
India, Bombay (Sadus), 1913
Celeste King 6 years ago
Sadhus in India have grown locks like this for centuries. Pretty cool!
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Terry Adcock 8 years ago
They're twists! Not dread, twists! Not appropriation!!! ;-)
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Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Or lack. Wonder if the dress had anything to do with the caste?
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#60
Autochrome Of A Young Girl, 1910
Katherine Cimaglio 6 years ago
Yes..they are ...I have a picture of my aunt, 1912, wearing the exact same shoes...my mom said they had canvas shoes that looked very much like the old "sneakers"
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#61
Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914
Curd Vesters 8 years ago
strange how this one is totally different from the other one from the Moulin Rouge from 1914... Look at the building left 19141578_1...8b9208.jpg 
Flora Polvado 8 years ago
It is strange, according to the titles, they were both taken the same year.
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Jerome S Colburn 6 years ago
This one really is from 1914, because that indeed is when "Cache ton nu!" was playing: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Rape%C3%B1o
Karen Janssen 6 years ago
I have a photo of the "#61 Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914" taken in about 2007
Lothaire Lemaistre 6 years ago
According to Wikipedia, the Moulin Rouge burnt down on February, 27th 1915 and has only been rebuilt in 1921. The red windmill changed appearance. This means both pictures here are prior to 1915, because the winsmill is the the original one on both photographs. However, it seems the right wing on the second picture is the same, only painted red, but also that the cabaret lost it's left wing/gate and the building on the right has apparently been demolished. You cas clearly see them missing through the gap between the red pannels and the entry gate.
Ralf Schulze 8 years ago
This is Moulin Rouge 2, the other photo is Moulin Rouge 3. Different location...
#62
Flower Street Vendor, Paris, 1914
Kjorn 8 years ago
Zig-Zag le meilleur papier cigarettes (zig-zag the best cigarette paper) : when you need to roll yours
Flat Earth British Sub 6 years ago
Can anybody tell me what is the function of the ornate metal struct in the background?
Lothaire Lemaistre 6 years ago (edited)
Public urinal, "pissotière". They've almost all been removed in Paris in the late 1970 since they became meetpoints for gay casual intercourse.
Load More Replies... Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
She was selling something "special", hidden under those flowers. See the Zig-Zag rolling paper advert?
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
I like the Vespasienne (urinals) behind the flower lady. They slowly disappeared from Paris. No regrets!
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
She had better sell those poppies today–they won't be any good tomorrow!
#63
Peggy In The Garden, 1909
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
So beautiful. This reminds me of that beautiful Swedish painting of children with lanterns--the name of which escapes me (help anyone?)
mel reb 8 years ago
google "Swedish painting children lanterns" and Luther Van Gorder's Japanese Lanterns is one of the 1st results - is that it?
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Ashley Dobbs 3 years ago
Makes me think of what snow white would have looked like as a young child if she were a real person
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
Hmmm. Imma say nouveau riche? The fact that it's a photo, not an oil plus the ostentatious bracelet and what looks like a commercially produced gown. Any art historians around?
Anne Nadel-Walbridge 8 years ago
Clothes that detailed were made by hand or treadle sewing machine before the commercialization of clothing manufacture, and wealthy plutocrats or nobility often ordered custom tailored or designed garments for children, particularly for special occasions. As for the bracelets, a lot of young children of social rank had gold bracelets that were gifts at birth from other titled families. And remember the manner in which the coloring was done in these old photos. It is possible the braceets were not nearly as gaudy as they look (particularly the one on her left arm).
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The Younger Girl Stands Beside Her Sister Holding A Pink Parasol. The Older Girl Rests Her Bonnet On Her Lap, 1908
Long Joan Silver 8 years ago
Yes. Janet is the eldest daughter, and Iris is the younger one. I did a bit of google searching on Etheldreda Laing. She took a lot of photos of her daughters, as she was passionate about photography, and autochrome photography when it came out in 1908
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Stagecoaches At Ghent, 1912
Diri Knaeps 6 years ago
The inner city of Ghent (or Gent, in Dutch) survived both wars and while these stagecoaches have left, so have the motorcars. You can explore it in horse-drawn carriages to this very day.
Diri Knaeps 6 years ago
Movies set in old London or Paris are often shot in Bruges or Ghent.
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Staithes Harbor, 1915
John L 8 years ago
This is the most unique harbor in all of England. I wish I could be there now. :(
CultOfBambi 8 years ago
Beautiful! Reminds me a bit of Porthleven Harbour in Cornwall - although Porthleven doesn't have river feeding into it.
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Euan MacDonald 4 years ago
Roughly the same spot, 100 years later, from Google Maps. Screenshot...7e-png.jpg 
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Another photo that has sent me diving into Wikipedia. Apparently, the famous Captain James Cook (not Kirk!) lived there awhile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staithes
#67
Two Fishermen And A Boy, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland, 31 May 1913
Anne Nadel-Walbridge 8 years ago
My money is on this being a family portrait of three generations.
Jacqueline Beagan 6 years ago
I agree -- you can tell the boy is sitting next to his Da by the way his holding his leg.
Load More Replies... B.r. Hutchinson 8 years ago
All these Ireland pics showcase the desperate poverty in the country. No wonder they revolted.
AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
There was grinding poverty in England & rest've UK too back then; the poor were exploited or forgotten by uncaring Government everywhere; terrible, unfair, times.
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Jeanne Joergens 6 years ago
shoes for growing childrens feet were a luxury many had to forgo
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At The Entrance To The Pyramid Of Menkare, 1913
Evelyn Morgan 8 years ago
It looks like it could be a scene from an Agatha Christie mystery in the middle east.
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
"I say Farouk, carry me around on your back will you.....Theres a good chap"
Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
"When I count to three, you two act natural. 1-2-3. Also don't move for about 13 minutes."
#69
A Rusty Buoy, 1908
Flat Earth British Sub 6 years ago
There is a connection between land and sea as yew know. There are two contrasts. Buoy's are an explanation of that contrasted connection. Perhaps land floats, or perhaps not. What are were taught?
#70
Sphinx And Camel, 1913
#71
One Legged Man, Paris, 1914
Jenifer Corbett 6 years ago
Indeed!! I dont really have time for this but I cant stop looking!!
Load More Replies... Max Lindenman 8 years ago
The medal on the left looks like a Medaille Militaire -- a very prestigious award. Judging by the man's age, I'm betting that and the peg leg are both souvenirs of Sedan.
James Martin 6 years ago
These guns are still there, near Les Invalides, overlooking Rue de Grenelle.
Murray Brockman 8 years ago
One of the causes of World War I was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A veteran?
Gavin Lawrence 8 years ago
I don't think that the Franco-Prussian War had anything to do with Austria attacking Serbia
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Lumiere Brothers. The Game Of Billiards, 1907
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
This one is framed very well. The most 'like a painting' one yet!
Spagghetti 6 years ago
The grandmother on the right looks like a vampire which hasn't had blood in a while
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
Sorry, but no snooker. We mostly play billiard with 3 balls and no pockets in France.
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AugustaAdaHypatia 8 years ago
Females, in the Games Room?! - Cool. But they'll be after 'Vote next.. :O
#73
Galway, Ireland, 1913
Donald Dunlavey 6 years ago
We have it so easy now, many are too spoiled.
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Владиміръ Смѣловъ 4 years ago
I tried to correct the color rendition of this photo. first-colo...07edc0.jpg 
Jeanne Joergens 6 years ago
Families thrown off their farms would live where they could- makeshift dwellings...1916 would bring the Easter uprising
Catherine Harley 6 years ago
I think you are correct the people are wearing Scandinavian costumes. Irish women worn crossed shawls not waistcoats..
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Mary Johnson 2 years ago
Yes it is, most likely the landlord tumbled the cottage either because they couldn’t pay the rent on their own land or the English wanted the land to raise beef they then shipped to England. The family would try to find shelter in the ruins but the agents would drive them out of the area. Many lived along the roadside under overhangs. Nice way to exist, huh?
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Shepherd’s Boy, C. 1913
Aaaa Bbbb 8 years ago
Reminds me of the cute little boy who likes to wear dresses from a recent Bored Panda post.
Kylie Hubbard 6 years ago
This was actually standard attire for young boys at the time. dresses didn't become gendered as female (insofar as children were concerned) until decades later
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Joni Masters 6 years ago
skirts/smocks for women only, are a recently modern thing no idea why the enforced gendering, just it was never an issue, only since industrialisation I suppose needing practical & safer clothes
#75
The Kiosk Of Philae, 1913
Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
"Welp. Calling the plumber now would be pointless. Mayne no one will see me and this never happened."
#76
Oranges In Uhlený Trh (“coal Market Square”), Prague, 1910
Terka K. 6 years ago
Yeah😉 czech must be for tourist so hard to learn 😁 we have( i think) one of the hardest language in the world
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My grandfather was from Bohemia and had a huge bunch of pictures of "Praha"
#77
Eva Poses After A Successful Hunt In Scotland, C. 1920
Gretchen Pritchard 8 years ago
However she looks older than in the photos dated 1925 and 1927, so something is off.
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Heather Beaver 6 years ago
I KNEW IT!!! lmao she's definitely my favorite in all these pics.lol. lil badass!
#78
Senegalese Soldiers Serving In The French Army As Infantrymen Are Resting In A Room With Guns And Equipment Next To Them, 16th June 1917
Andie Cavanaugh 8 years ago
That's today! Happy 100th birthday "Senegalese Soldiers Serving In The French Army As Infantrymen Are Resting In A Room With Guns And Equipment Next To Them, 16th June 1917"!
Load More Replies... Nikki Scott 8 years ago
Amazing photograph and a reminder that it wasn't only Western Europe fighting at that time.
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
Western Europe included all the RIC (Regiment d'Infanterie Coloniale) for France, just like the Gurkhas were battling under the British flag. It was not Africa or Nepal vs Germany...
Load More Replies... Terry Adcock 8 years ago
That whole description, and no mention of the pencil-like thing balanced on the one guy's head?
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
With the promise of Chateau's, land and one thousand francs each, the boys of 4th and a half infantry pondered their good fortune....
#79
Man With Book Sitting In Chair, 1915
Rachel Brekhus 8 years ago
"I am holding this book so that everyone will think I know exactly what I am talking about. I am really just sort of nervous while I wait for this wedding, funeral, or other boutonniere-requiring occasion to begin."
Wyndmere 8 years ago
Boutonnieres were commonly worn every day by folks in his class.
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Horse, Paris, 1914
Zika Haider 4 years ago
WTH DUE RESECTS to the historical values ; almost EVERY photograph has mistakes - either in the caption, spelling or mismatch between the photo and caption. Some captions run into paragraphs and some have just TWO words! Eg.: THIS one says just "Horse, Paris, 1914". it could have been appropriately titled "A Horse-cart , Paris, 1914"! Anyways' looking carefully I think that a DONKEY!!!!!!
Rod MacKinnon 6 years ago
Holy c**p that's one hell of a load, for one poor horse. The cart empty would be a steep load!
#81
Eiffel Tower River View, Paris, 1914
Olivier Chauvignat 6 years ago
the gardens were in paris at this time now : https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pont+de+Bir-Hakeim/@48.847338,2.2741019,80a,35y,47.31h,79.16t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e67002c5f495e1:0xaaa0bc5121a55eda!8m2!3d48.8555961!4d2.2875917
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The structure you can see on the left, with the turret-top windows, is still there today on Quai Louis Blériot. QuaiLBleri...30912c.jpg 
Christina O'Neill 6 years ago
'Oh, Georgie, how I long for the old view' -- Line from Sunday in the Park with George, Sondheim & Lapine, 1984 Broadway musical.
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
Auteuil in the prestigious XVIth arr. was still a village, attached eventually to Paris.
#82
Two Girls At The Gate, 1915
Flora Polvado 8 years ago
The one on the left is a bonnet, in case anyone cares;) and, yes, they need some feathers a new fur for a little more flufffff.
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Aunt Messy 6 years ago
Not really. They set their hair in rags overnight and then in the morning they took out the rags and had ringlets. It beats sleeping in rollers.
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Cafe La Tasse, Paris, 1914
Olivier Chauvignat 6 years ago
I think it is here : https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8838979,2.332914,3a,60y,36.36h,95.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siGhh0cdYUseMfEpHZpT1aA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 L e Moulin de la Galette is on top of the street on the left
James Martin 6 years ago
I think Olivier has it correct... Rue Puget. The top floor of the shop is gone now but the balcony railing and windows of the background buildings are a match. rue_puget-...fddb12.jpg 
Mark Hornak 3 years ago
So many of these old buildings are still around. Not one bomb fell on Paris in either major war!
julien 3 years ago
"The Royal Air force bombed the Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt in March 1942 : 235 aircraft were dispatched in 3 waves. This mission included: 89 Wellingtons, 48 Hampdens, 29 Stirlings, 26 Manchesters, 23 Whitleys, 20 Halifaxes. Source-- RAF website."
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Boris Krivy 8 years ago
Suze is still available in France today. I have a bottle. It's a liqueur.
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
Can't make out what street this is on--is that the 16th arrondissement or the 14th?
#84
Autochrome Of A French Military Cemetery, 1916
xanbex 8 years ago
Commenting on all this......P.D. Ouspensky said ......" The history of man is the history of crime ".......still true, still killing.
Catherine Swan 6 years ago
Yes! Too bad man's consciousness hasn't grown as much as technology. 'Still killing'....Sleeping, mechanical mankind.
Load More Replies... Rick Zamarron 5 years ago
Why the hell are there targets placed on the grave markers? Freeking French are WEIRD!!
julien 3 years ago
once a redneck always a redneck ! a Trumpy boy maybe ?? lol
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#85
Woman In Floral Silk Robe, 1915
Gretchen Pritchard 8 years ago
I suspect she was "no better than she should be," based on the combination of makeup, robe, pose, and expression.
Donna Rivera 8 years ago
You can see by 1915 how women had begun to (acceptably) wear make-up. How close we are getting to the '20's. I would say this woman was very much "on the cutting edge" of modernity. Most women didnt wear make up like this until 1920's. Paris was a very modern place. These pictures have truly demonstrated this fact for me.
Nelly Einstulen 6 years ago
Wow! Ser moderne ut, men kvinnen på bildet ble fotografert for over 100 år siden!
#86
The Temple Of Dor El-Medine, 1913
#87
Italian Riviera, 1910
Odd Tengesdal 6 years ago
Yes it is. No question about that - all the buildings are still there :-)
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Zoltan Manyoki 6 years ago
That's right. See https://www.google.com/maps/@44.303142,9.209992,3a,75.2y,39.68h,92.27t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOMFf8-3dbosTmuitHmWmWYBD8m-mh18nwa-HnA!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOMFf8-3dbosTmuitHmWmWYBD8m-mh18nwa-HnA%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya283.746-ro0-fo100!7i9728!8i4864. Nothing chaged.
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#88
Drunk Man Sleeping On City Street, Paris, 1914
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
The horses are pulling commercial barges against the current
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Paul Hannosh 6 years ago
I think the Google Maps guy accidentally recorded his debauchery for all time's sake.
Catherine Swan 6 years ago
Interesting the splashes of color on the stones and paintings on this poor man's face and hands as well.
#89
Woman Sitting In Library, 1915
#90
Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Prisoner), 1913
Donna Rivera 8 years ago
he is a prisoner. I wonder at the guy w/ hand on hip sticking his hip out. LOL. Attitude! (same thing it means today)..."Ive had enuff of this Sh^*t!" LOL
Susan Sage 6 years ago
At least they have a sunny exercise area. Shucks, No weights to lift...oh well.
Randy McArthur 6 years ago
Exactly, man’s inhumanity to man. Sums up a greater part and history of the world from the beginning of time! We are more transparent now and our misdeeds are showing. I’m searching for an answer. I strongly suspect the Universe doesn’t care with (estimated) 500 sextillion planets or more.
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#91
Peggy Reading, 1909
brandee Schmidt 6 years ago
Omg I have that book at home! It's a Mother Goose fairy tale book!! ❤❤❤
#92
Girl With A Bucket, 1915
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
No, les Falaises d'Etretat. The other French side of the Channel.
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A Small Customer, 1915
Holli Lyndora 6 years ago
I mean, they're all kids. I'm sure nobody was pretending this was business as normal.
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Lady And Fruit Dish, 1920
Stina Kolling 8 years ago
She's probably sitting there wondering why in the world the photographer insisted on posing her with all this fruit in the backyard.
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
She's trying to display her wealth, but she doesn't look happy!
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Very likely - yes! Note the pineapple. they were at one time extremely expensive. Owning and consuming a pineapple was a form of conspicuous consumption.
Load More Replies... Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
Man. How much starch did they use when they ironed back then. Impressive.
#95
Autochrome Photo By Cdt Tournassoud, 1910
Max Lindenman 8 years ago
Austrian Jaegers! Makes my heart swell to recall that my great-grandfather left for America to dodge the imperial draft!
Fabio Belafatti 6 years ago
I don't think they're Jaegers, the uniforms don't match.They would have to be grey-green: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-military-austria-hungary-infantry-jaeger-light-infantry-uniforms-from-33340239.html
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Martine Madoï-khan 6 years ago
oui ce sont des français bien sûr : https://www.herodote.net/1914_1918-synthese-60.php
Load More Replies... Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
Pre-WWI exercises. Those red pants would cause the death of many soldiersa short while latter. They were changed for blue pants eventually.
Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
They seem to be setting up a couple machine guns. A few years later they found out lower tripods were a better idea.
Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
Guy at bottom of hill..."If I just stay here looooong enough, by the time I get up there..."
Rachel Brekhus 8 years ago
so surreal...they could be about to die as they scramble about on a hill like children scaling a dune
Max Lindenman 8 years ago
I think this is a training exercise. The uniforms are so clean and -- as you point out -- nobody looks too worried about anything.
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Washing And Bleaching, 1912
Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Sun will bleach anything out, not An, I don't think An even does laundry.
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Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
The actual truth behind this photo is that she is bleaching her fathers jaw bone.
#97
Autochrome Of French Soldiers Operating Machine Guns During The Second Battle Of The Aisne, 1917
Mick Fowler 8 years ago
Actually, Krupps altered a 37 mm gun for shooting down balloons during the 1870s Franco-Prussian war. By WW I there were both light and heavy AA guns. Humans: We do mass murder right!
Load More Replies... Mark Sutton 6 years ago
Pierre had a real craving for Duck a l'orange and NOBODY was going to stop him!.....
Scott Garland 8 years ago
ALL photos from this time period are posed, the exposure times were sometimes measured in minutes, depending on lighting. One source says Autochrome exposure times were 100x greater than B&W plates of the same era.
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The Last Digger, 1910
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Warburg took a lot of shots on this particular beach. Note the cart-tracks. Got me wondering.
Remy Galet-Lalande 6 years ago
Seaweeds were commercially harvested at low tide for the fields. So the tracks
R David Anderson 6 years ago
This is the same little girl in the blue dress and red porkie hat from #57 above Children by the Breakwater 1908. She has taken the boys shovel and bucket and is putting sand into the bucket. A darling little girl, barefooted and carefree.
#99
The Butcher's Shop, 1915
Pocho Basura 8 years ago
presently I am traveling in south asia, this 1915 meat shop is cleaner by far than any I see on the street here. looks like cow?
Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
Possibly a Frederic Remington calendar for April 1915 hanging on the wall?
Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
"I'll have the roast with the freshly laid fly eggs please. Please hurry."
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
Well, i spent few weeks in Djibouti when i was a little girl. At that time we were advised to always choose the meat with most flies because it was suppose to mean that the meat in question was fresh . Guess you would have loved that journey XD
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On The Sands, 1910
Magdalene Green 8 years ago
Again this is a mid twenties beach scene. The clothes and hats and hemlines are all wrong for 1915
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Well spotted. as soon as I read your comment I was back looking at the hats and hem-lines. 1920s for sure.
Load More Replies... Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
Most rarest of things ever seen from this era: $100 Bill, headlights on a car and tan lines.
Jerry Mathers 8 years ago
I have to believe that going to the beach dressed like this has got to be a miserable experience.
Liza Dolensky 6 years ago (edited)
Definitely not 1910. Would put it around 1920/21. Always go by the teenagers and young people -- they adopt the current fashion. Old people maintain the styles of earlier times and don't adopt the latest fad.
Carol de Sousa 6 years ago
I agree the clothing is completely not from 1910, has to be from the 1920's.
#101
Morocco, Benguerir, 1912
Flat Earth British Sub 6 years ago
..........and what if the GREAT PYRAMIDS were merely wheat stacks petrified/ calcified.
Kim Lorton 8 years ago
Not a pyramid! Look closer. These are hits they live in. Pyramids aren't built so small and so close together!
#102
Civic And Military Garb, C. 1911
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
It's nice to see the color correction but the whole point here is that these are the first color photos. These are not photos that have been colorized so the colors are going to be off kilter to our seasoned eyes but it's kind of nice to see them anyway. Thanks though for that...it's also cool to see all of these photos because it just makes me want to jump back into time.
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#103
Three Men Playing Cards, 1915
#104
Autochome Of A Street In Jerusalem By An Unknown Artist During The Early 20th Century
Charlie Bourgeois 8 years ago
The shadow from the dude on the left looks like he's just hovering through life.
Alif Ghain 5 years ago
The jews have been living in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco and Yemen for ever. The European jews, the Poles, Russians and Germans who were driven out of Europe, For the second time after Spain, came with weapons and support from the occupying British and committed atrocities in Palestine and claimed the land theirs.
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Karnak, Egypt, 1913
Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
It just looked like some ramshackle doorway until I noticed the size of the person standing under it.
Ian McCulloch 6 years ago
"BusLady" said so in the comments.... must be true!
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#106
Newsvendor In Reims Streets, 1917
#107
Autochrome Of A French Military Observation Post, 1917
Mark Sutton 6 years ago
Anything Freddie?... Nup. Pierre?...Nah...Pub for a quick wine a cheese platter? OUI!!!
Ian McCulloch 6 years ago
More like creation: more healthy people alive now than ever in human history. Turn that frown upside down! Life is not so bad.
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A Woman With A Cart Filled With Milk Cans In Rue De Vesle And A Man With Another Cart In Rue De Talleyrand Behind Her. 3rd March 1917
Beth Richards 6 years ago
It definitely snows in March! I've been in April with snow.
Load More Replies... Scott McDavid 6 years ago
Wonder what happened to that building on the left.... needs a little repair.
#109
Krusevac, Serbia (Market Scene), 1913
dora sim 8 years ago
I think we forget European women wore different types of heard gear for many centuries, from headscarves, through wimples, to bonnets. In a time when you did not have to shower every day or... well, ever, hair care was a big hygienic concern. Instead of washing hair, throughout the middle ages and later on in some parts of the world, women would comb their hair with very fine toothed combs. This would be repeated at least twice a day. It had the effect to reduce the production of sebum on the scalp, meaning that hair would not get greasy. However, there were other concerns as well - sun, sand, fire, wind, rain, grease of cooking, smoke, char, etc. Wearing headscarves used to be not only common place but common sense. It seems that the only women of the upper classes could afford to show off their hair daily. The rest of us, working women, took the easy way out, and kept our hair safe under fabric. Now, if we could only reclaim this tradition as either fashion or practicality...
#110
Two Nurses And Child Dressed As "Uncle Sam" In Wwi Support Parade, Pasadena California, 1917
#111
The Orange Stall, 1908
Pedro Menezes 6 years ago
It is a nice thing to put up on a colored photography, and readily available on a street market.
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#112
A French Soldier Stands Next To A Table With German Shells And An Aircraft Propeller, Along The Western Front In Reims, 1917
Bruce Mardle 6 years ago
He's displaying all the things he's caught bare-handed as they flew by :-)
Load More Replies... Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
yeah, his hand got cut on the propeller while they were setting this up.
Pedro Menezes 6 years ago
Look at the thickness of the metal in the blow-up shell at the far-left!
Maureen Loosemore 6 years ago
Apparently the fuze's "blasting cap" failed to set off the main charge.
Load More Replies... Ed Harbur 6 years ago
Pretty easy to be sagacious in hindsight, isn't it?
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Autochrome By An Unknown Artist Of The Italian Battleship Caio Duilio During The Early 20th Century
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
if you look in the left hand top corner, it looks like theres another earthquake...
Nobody Uknow 6 years ago
Fellow in the background appears to have been atop the crate, jumped down beside it and stepped back pausing long enough to become somewhat in focus during the final seconds of exposure.
Jayne Wilson 6 years ago
Interesting to see the shadow of the cameraman and camera, and the double exposure effect on the man in the background who moved as the photo was being taken.
Glenda Fordham 6 years ago
Seeing the shadow of the photographer and his camera is intriguing...wonder who he was, whatever happened to him.
#114
Two French Soldiers Assigned To A Telephone Station Are Washing Their Laundry In A Trough Of A Fountain, While Three Others Are Watching, 18th June 1917
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
Wait–if two guys are washing, where's the third watcher? I see the guy in the cave and the Sgt Shultz type guy...
Jen Strickland 8 years ago
One behind them, one in the shack, one on the hill hid by a piece of slanted wood.
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Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
oh so you want us to watch this important telephone station? ok then we'll just walk away and do our laundry lol
Anne Gillingham 3 years ago
The subject matter is European. You are missing the term "eurocentric."
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Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Surely not the building in back of the. Perhaps the dug out to the right?
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French Soldiers Dig Through The Rubble Of A Destroyed Building In Reims, France, 1917
Jonathan Slusher 8 years ago
Wow. Amazing photos. And the well thought out comments and careful observations have helped heal my damaged hope in humanity. Nice work all around people :)
Clare Elliott 6 years ago
every single picture in this wonderful collection just proves to me that the people in the past had a much higher sense of aesthetics than we in the modern world can ever have...there are no jarring notes;the colours are beautiful;the gardens-even the ruins-are special and harmonious-what happened?...I'd say the Bauhaus;but I adore a lot of their work...I think its just laziness,and indifference.
Gigi J Wolf 6 years ago
I loved these, but would have preferred seeing different people, instead of the same ones, like the two girls, over and over, the older of whom is bored out of her gourd. And all I could think was "So much ironing!" But they had servants for that.
Angie Wright 6 years ago
Stunning pictures from another world before the 'Century of War' really got started.
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Danny Root 8 years ago
I remember being a kid and thinking that because all old photographs were black and white, the whole world looked that way. This helps put a much more realistic perspective on things way back when.
blugeagua 8 years ago
Yeah it's funny that the older you get you realize that actually since the beginning of time the way we all see now has always been the same.
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John L 8 years ago
As a serious amateur photographer, I am enjoying this post more than any I have seen here for some time. We need more of these priceless pictures. :D
Tony Cabré 8 years ago
Google "Daguerrotype" and you'll find stuff from 1840-1860's
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Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Some of these I want to hang on my wall, others I want to paint, all beautiful!
Manu Schuster 8 years ago
Some of them might jave been coloured afterwords, but still they are very impressive and make the ancient times crazy well imaginable. Love it!
Harold L. James 8 years ago
The early gardfen and countryside portaits of young women have the artistry of a Renoir or a Monet at times. They took great pains with slow equipment - quite delightful portraits of those times. Very skilfull early day photographers. Thank you
Mike Vicario 8 years ago
These are great photos....some look "historical" while others look like they could have been taken yesterday!
A.S. Galston 8 years ago
I absolutely love this. Fantastic job! In color there is so much to take in.
Danny Root 8 years ago
I remember being a kid and thinking that because all old photographs were black and white, the whole world looked that way. This helps put a much more realistic perspective on things way back when.
blugeagua 8 years ago
Yeah it's funny that the older you get you realize that actually since the beginning of time the way we all see now has always been the same.
Load More Replies... John L 8 years ago
As a serious amateur photographer, I am enjoying this post more than any I have seen here for some time. We need more of these priceless pictures. :D
Tony Cabré 8 years ago
Google "Daguerrotype" and you'll find stuff from 1840-1860's
Load More Replies... Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Some of these I want to hang on my wall, others I want to paint, all beautiful!
Manu Schuster 8 years ago
Some of them might jave been coloured afterwords, but still they are very impressive and make the ancient times crazy well imaginable. Love it!
Harold L. James 8 years ago
The early gardfen and countryside portaits of young women have the artistry of a Renoir or a Monet at times. They took great pains with slow equipment - quite delightful portraits of those times. Very skilfull early day photographers. Thank you
Mike Vicario 8 years ago
These are great photos....some look "historical" while others look like they could have been taken yesterday!
A.S. Galston 8 years ago
I absolutely love this. Fantastic job! In color there is so much to take in.
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