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This FB Group Shares Historical And Vintage Photos And Here Are 50 Of The Most Fascinating Ones
Imagine a world without photographs. There's so much we might never have "seen". Thanks to the invention and evolution of the camera, we have pieces of the past frozen in time. We are able to "experience" places we've never been. And we can share parts of our lives with strangers, in an instant.
Nowadays, almost anyone can be a photographer. An amateur one anyway. And you don't even need to carry a camera or professional equipment. A mobile phone with photographic capabilities will do just fine. But it wasn't always that way.
A group of highly talented photographers came before us, paving the way as they played with light around them. Facebook page History Photos Sealed In Time is a gorgeous gallery of "historical and vintage photos from around the world". Bored Panda has put together a list of our favorites. Keep scrolling for a captivating journey through the days of darkrooms and daylight color film. And learn a bit more about the days before digital photography.
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#1
Tricycle Gang In Brooklyn. New York City (1930s)
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#2
A Danish Zookeeper Waters The Emperor Penguins On A Hot Summer Day In 1957
TribbleThinking 2 years ago
My mind keeps telling me that they're about to burst into song. I can actually feel the rumble preceding the first note!
#3
Man In Fog, London - 1935 Photo By Arthur Tanner
#4
Girls Playing Jump Rope, Chicago, 1950 - By Marvin E. Newman
#5
A Heavy Load - Sioux. Edward S. Curtis, 1908
Annik Perrot 2 years ago
That picture could have been taken in any country of the world. The clothes would have been different, but a woman, often an old woman, stumbling under a heavy load of firewood, used to be a universal sight on all continents. Tending the hearthfire was a woman's job.
#6
Farm Life Of Western Norway - 1890s
#7
Christmas In London - 1948
Silly-Rabbit 2 years ago
🎶 Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree. How lovely are thy branches 🎵
#8
Racecourse On Norderney Island Four Ladies In White Dresses On The Turf, Germany, 1908 - By Otto Haeckel
#9
The Face Of The Custom House Clock In Boston Was Repainted By A Worker In 1976
#10
In Amsterdam, Holland, In 1953, A Milkman Was Seen Peddling His Dairy Products, Providing Fresh Milk And Other Essentials To The Community
#11
Man With Bird, Tyneside, England, Ca. 1937 - By Edith Tudor Hart
#12
Photo By Russell Lee - New Madrid County, Missouri. Child Of Sharecropper Cultivating A Field - 1938
#13
In Whitechapel, London, A Young Person's Eyes Wander Longingly Over The Freshly Baked Goods In A Bakery Window During The Financial Hardships Of The 1930s
#14
Ladies Sharing An Umbrella, London, 1959
#15
L'uomo Che Corre. Paris, Photo By Sabine Weiss, 1953
#16
Passengers In Railway Station, Germany, 1940’s - By Paul Wolff
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
It rather depends on which half of the 1940s this is, as to how I feel about it.
#17
A Bench From Out Of Youth, 1970 - By Andrei Knyazev
#18
Laugharne, Wales, Photo By Philip Jones Griffiths, 1959
Sian E 2 years ago
Laugharne is relatively local to me and I have ancestors from the town. This was taken in an area known as The Grist. Just out of shot is a Celtic cross. The buildings are all still there today. The one on the left is a cafe/gift shop, the one in the middle is a fish and chip shop/pub and the one on the right is a convenience store.
#19
Experienced Ticker Tape Operators Diligently Working On The New York Stock Exchange In 1915, Ensuring Precise Monitoring Of Market Activity
#20
Chorus Girls Reading On The Set Of You Can’t Have Everything, 1937
#21
"The Camera Is An Instrument That Teaches People How To See Without A Camera" - Dorothea Lange
#22
Photo By Cecil Beaton - Tilly Losch (1930’s)
#23
Women Factory Workers In A Cotton Mill In Lancashire, England, Circa 1908
#24
Rhine River Boat Transporting Whisky, Düsseldorf, Ca. 1957 - By Leonard Freed
#25
Farmer Walking In Dust Storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma Circa 1936
#26
Little Sarakatsana Spins Wool, 1940's - By Takis Tloupas
#27
The Great Flood Of 1910 In Paris, France
#28
Photo By Leonard Freed - Farm Women, Bay Of Naples, Italy 1958
#29
Mailbox Attached To A German Tram, Postman Empties The Mailbox. Berlin, 1920
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 2 years ago
Jeez, the way those men are glaring at the camera! Either they are ticked about war reparations or the photographer owes all of them money!
#30
Carrer De Les Basses De Sant Pere, Barcelona, 1946 - By Otho Lloyd
#31
Unemployed Miner Returning Home From Jarrow, England, 1937 - By Bill Brandt
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
The Jarrow March was a protest against unemployment by around 200 men from Jarrow, Northumberland, who walked to London to deliver a petition to the House of Commons. Mostly they weren't miners, but shipyard workers, following the closure of the shipyard which was the main source of employment in the town.
#32
Rue Mouffetard, Paris, Ca. 1945 - By Brassaï
#33
Liverpool, Photo By By Paul Trevor, 1975
#34
Teachers Training Students Of The Royal Dance Academy At Fairfield Lodge In 1949
#35
Paris, 1952 - By Édouard Boubat
#36
A Sears Roebuck Catalogue Assembly Line In 1942
#37
Quai Du Louvre, Paris, Photo By Marcel Bovis, 1946
#38
A Lady Sold Hot Chestnuts In Soho, In The West End Of London, England, In 1935
#39
The Sonter Family Packing Fruit, Ray Road, Epping, Sydney - 1911 By Rex Hazlewood
#40
Photo By Gianni Berengo Gardin, 1953
#41
Nuns, Rio De Janeiro, 1955 - By Ormond Gigli
#42
Alla Nazimova And Rudolph Valentino In Camille - 1921
#43
Girls Picking Huckleberries - 1920s
#44
In 1940, Factory Workers In London, England, Produced Spectacles Compatible With Gas Masks
Yellow dot 2 years ago
My partner and I are both near legal-blindness and would have suffered terribly from our lack of vision without these special spectacles. We make jokes about how we would not be survivors before spectacles were invented
#45
New Year's Eve In The Vondelpark, Opposite The Entrance To Van Eeghenstraat, Amsterdam, 1951 - By Ben Van Meerendonk
#46
Hooverville (Great Depression), Ca. 1936
#47
San Nicola Da Crissa, Italy, 1950
#48
Photo By Jean Hermanson - Vietnam, 1973
#49
Standing In Line. Photo By Robert Doisneau, France, 1940s
#50
Curling In Central Park, New York City - 1906
#51
In Pennsylvania During The 1940s, Charles Teenie Harris's Photo Captured A Server Behind The Counter Of A Soda Fountain
#52
Eureka, Colorado - Early 1900s
#53
Venice, Photo By Siegfried Lauterwasser, 1960s
#54
The Sandman, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1890s
#55
The Village Of Moussages, Photo By Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968
#56
Olga Schubert, A Little 5-Year-Old After A Days Work That Began About 5 Am Helping Her Mother In The Biloxi Canning Factory, 1911
#57
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 1930's - By Friedrich Seidenstücker
#58
A Group Of Boys Assembled In Front Of A Chicago Building (1951)
Pencil McGovern 2 years ago
When did it become taboo for young men to have casual, physical contact with each other? I hope male friends hanging out with each other like this becomes normalized again soon.
#59
Just Two Guys Shooting The Breeze In New York, 1950s
#60
Lime Street Railway Station, Liverpool, 1954, Photographed By Bert Hardy
#61
New York's Spanish Harlem (1950s)
#62
An Attendant At Los Angeles' Gilmore 'Self-Service' Gas Station Took Up Knitting During Slow Periods In 1948
#63
New York City's Summer Street Life In 1954
Richard Graham 2 years ago
On the right - 1953 or 1954 Ford. On the left (facing us) is a 1948 Dodge. Behind it a 1950 Plymouth.
#65
Stanley Kubrick's 1947 Photograph Of A New York Taxi Driver Changing A Tire
#66
New York City's Early Adoption Of Electric Buses (1908)
#68
Front Porch Of Tenant Farmers House Near Warner, Oklahoma - 1939
#69
The Summer Girl And Her Sweetheart, 1897
#70
Girl On A Stoop, New York City, Ca. 1946 - By Sonia Handelman Meyer
#72
Italian Immigrant Man In His Makeshift Home Under The Rivington Street Dump, New York City - 1890
#73
Three Children Stand Outside Mrs. Herbst's Bakery In New York City In 1960, Gazing Through The Window
#74
Vienna, Austria, Photo By Elfriede Mejchar, - 1960
#75
A Group Of Workers Gathered At A Portable Snack Stand Beneath Brooklyn Bridge, Refreshments In Hand, In The 1950s
Pencil McGovern 2 years ago
Vendors like this now need a permit to reserve specific locations in NYC. Some prime spots can cost hundreds of thousands per year. No joke - $200,000K to park a hot dog cart. https://shorturl.at/QOtA7
#76
Photo By Willy Ronis - Le Café De France, L'isle-Sur-La-Sorgue (Vaucluse), 1979
#77
The Circus At A Children's Hospital - 1923
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