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Photos have a quiet magic to them… they can pull us out of the present and drop us into another moment in an instant.
This feeling is even stronger when we look at historic pictures taken across different eras and places.
Some of the moments feel so familiar — for example, we all can relate to a mirror selfie that was taken by a couple in the 1920s in Japan. But at the same time, some moments remind us of such strange times — for example, we will never fully understand what a soldier felt while embracing his baby after returning from World War 2.
Let’s travel back in time a bit, and check out this treasure trove from the Hatcher History Instagram page that reveals glimpses from the past.
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#1
A Photo Of Dame Daphne Sheldrick In 1960, At The Orphan Elephant Sanctuary She Set Up In The 1950s, In The Karen District Of Nairobi, Kenya
Toujin C'Thlu 1 day ago
This sanctuary is still around, and does great work. Look up Sheldrick Trust
Phantom Phoenix 6 hours ago
How many times have the Karens requested to speak to the manager about Dame Daphne Sheldrick and her Orphan Elephant Sanctuary?
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#2
A Couple Take A Selfie, In The Reflection Of A Mirror, Japan, 1920s
#3
A Soldier Of The French Foreign Legion's, During The Algerian War, Rescuing A Baby Donkey Found On The Battlefield. He Or She Was Then Adopted And Named Bambi, July Or August 1958
Rosecrucian Roeth 8 hours ago
Love the way the donkey seems to take it all in stride...................... as in "than you, I was getting a bit tired".
If you can relate even a little, history classes in school used to put me to sleep and all those dates and endless text were really hard to follow. So to keep myself awake, I’d try to lose myself in the blurry images in my textbook and try to make sense of the past in my own way.
That’s why I always believe that photos are a powerful medium to understand history. They bring moments, places and people to life with such clarity that words alone can’t convey.
#4
A Photo Of Nikolai Machulyak, A Russian Arctic Explorer Feeding A Polar Bear And Her Cubs, Off The Coast Of Chukchi Sea, 1976
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
I like how the cub is nibbling on his leg and he is just so nonchalant about it.
Ace 1 day ago
The mother bear in that pic had been orphaned when a baby and he'd fed her for five months. This was a year later when she suddenly appeared with her own cub and come up to greet him and ask for some more food please.
Earonn - 22 hours ago
I was wondering why someone who should know better would hand-feed a polar bear... Thanks!
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#5
An Inuit Woman Carries Their Babies In Cold Weather Clothing, 1940
#6
An Mother And Child, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, USA, Early 20th Century
Photos also capture emotions of people which makes us relate a bit more to their experiences.
Much of the emotional and visual context would be lost if we had no photographic evidence capturing the horrors of different wars, or the iconic moments like the suffrage movements or civil rights protests.
They highlighted moments of joy, sadness and victory, letting us connect with events on both personal and social levels.
#7
A Beaming New Dad Is Pictured Giving His Newborn Child Thumbs-Up From Outside A Window. Soviet Union 1977
Following a long convention, maternity wards typically enforced strict separation between mothers, newborns, and visiting family.
Credit: archaeo adventure
Owen 12 hours ago
I am unsure how much voting actually matters in Russia.
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A Civil War Veteran In A Photo Surrounded By His Grandchildren, In 1900
Dee Hampton 11 hours ago
"Grampa, your chair leg is on my foot!" "Stay still just 10 more minutes, Honey"
#9
A Brave Little 3-Year-Old, Eileen Dunne, Sits In Bed With Her Doll At Great Ormond Street Hospital, After Being Injured During An Air Raid On London, During The Blitz Of London By The Luftwaffe, In September, 1940
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
It's always terrible when the little ones get caught in the squabbles of adults.
Bookworm 1 day ago
War is more than a squabble and children getting caught in the middle of one is life-threatening.
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Julie Rogers 2 hours ago
Original caption in LIFE magazine: “The wide-eyed young lady on the cover is Eileen Dunne, aged 3 3/4. A German bomber whose crew had never met her dropped a b**b on a North England village. A splinter from it hit Eileen. She is sitting in the hospital. A plucky chorus of wounded children had just finished singing in the North English dialect, “Roon, Rabbit, Roon.”
Some photos also help preserve cultural practices, and can act as primary historical sources when understood with context and caution.
Even everyday life and social norms from the past are preserved thanks to portraits and images from our history.
Street scenes that show the fashion of the time, or the early Victorians who were the first generation to see themselves through the camera lens — some pictures show social classes and living conditions from the past that we refer to even today.
#10
The Last Man Is Taken Off A Shipwrecked Trawler, Off The Coast Of Southern England, 1962
Ace 1 day ago
Technically known as a 'breeches buoy", it's an apparatus designed to transfer people from ship to ship, so they'd normally be on the surface of the water, hence "buoy".
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Cee Cee 21 hours ago
I remember this terrible tragedy as my parents had friends living near Land's End. This French trawler, the Jeanne Gougy grounded on Armoured Knight Rock at Land's End during a ferocious storm. Sadly eleven crew perished, seven were saved.
#11
A Photo Of Stunned And Disoriented Birds, During The Total Solar Eclipse, Taken In Chiapas, Mexico, July 1991
Rusty’scate 1 day ago
Maybe, just maybe…… the movie Birds? No that can’t be it.
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The World’s Oldest Surviving Toy, Dating Back To The Chalcolithic Period Around 5500-3000 Bc, Is Exhibited At The Mardin Museum, Turkey
pelemele 11 hours ago
Meanwhile, the ancient Egyptians did not know the wheel. They only began to use it for their war chariots around 1500 BC.
Phantom Phoenix 5 hours ago (edited)
Much like architects build models to present their designs these days, back then - somewhat before cars were mass produced - they used scale models of designs for bespoke cars they'd then hand build to order. This one-person sports car is several generations after the well known model depicted in The Flintstones and is revolutionary in that it's all stone (no tree trunks or pelt cover) & showcases thin wheel technology (rather than full car-width rock cylinders). Also note the full floor; historians conclude that foot power was no longer used for propulsion by this time. What replaced it? That's a hot topic for debate amongst history buffs.
Bill Murphy 7 hours ago
So it’s a dragster? Large rear wheels, long cylindrical body, and small front wheels, lol. What was this modeled after? Incredible
Several pictures here show everyday life that can help us understand the social norms from the past — be it the fashion of the time, the way people worked or how they spent their free time.
Some pictures reveal the social classes and living conditions from the past which historians still refer to today.
For example, experts study studio portraits of wealthy families from the Victorian era and compare them with street scenes of the poor, to understand the stark differences in clothing, housing, and lifestyle at that time.
#13
Nothing A Cup Of Tea Won’t Make More Bearable: Blitz London, June 1940
Mel 1 day ago
I don't know the story behind this picture, but it reminds me of what my grandma told me - it was the simplest things you sought out for comfort. Whenever she was afraid as a kid at the time (she was born in 1938), she used to hide under a blanket and read books (series called Gabra a Málinka, to be specific). Not comparable, but I still have them and read them when I need comfort.
Huddo's sister 1 day ago
Amazing this piece of china survived! I can imagine it being kept and passed down to children as the one piece that survived the Blitz.
David Paterson 4 hours ago
It looks like me yesterday, after unloading a trailer at the tip. Oh wait, no bombed out buildings in the background.
#14
A Youngster Practises Her Ballet, On A Rainy Day In Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England, 1968
#15
A Market Girl Shows Off Her Wares, By The Sea, Netherlands, 1940s
While clicking away on their cameras, photographers do much more than just document memories. They capture stories that future generations might one day study.
“We capture images that will someday become part of history in some small way. Whether we mean to or not, as photographers, we become historians as well,” photographer Lawrence Lazare writes in the Medium.
“That is why we document the world around us, so we can pass along our images to others when those photos are needed most,” he adds.
#16
A Little Girl With Her Pet , Portugal, 1950s
#17
A Woman Selling Fish Door-To-Door, On The Streets Of London, 1910
#18
A Pair Of Roman Shoes Discovered During The Excavation Of A Maritime Site At Thérouanne, Pas-De-Calais, Northern France, 2023
Many pictures here also show the history of specific people, some we know and some we won’t ever read about in history books.
They are remarkable because they tell us so many different stories, and they let us feel what life was really like for people in the past.
Everyday experiences and lifestyle such as clothes, expressions of kids, and interactions between people — all these images bring past lives to life.
#19
An Elderly Italian Lady Takes A Rest, In An Alley In Her Village, Italy, 1960s
Ashtophet’sRevenge 20 hours ago
That cat probably spent all day waiting for Nonna to sit down…
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A Mother And Daughter Watch A Tall Ship Navigate The Thames In London, 1880
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
I forgot that London used to look quite manky back in the day, like any large city.
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
All that coal-fire smoke in the air turning the sky a sickly yellow color
#21
A Dutch Family Pose Infront Of Their Sod House, Drenthe, The Netherlands, 1936
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
Sod houses on the Great Plains in the US looked similar. I've read stories that you would need to hang a blanket or sheet onto the ceiling or else have constant dirt and bugs fall on your head while you slept. Otherwise it was very warm in winter and cool in summer. Not so good in fire season tho
#22
Female Pilots From The British Air Transport Auxiliary (Ata), Recruited To Work As Ferry Pilots And Deliver Military Airplanes From Factories To Aerodromes In World War II, England, 1939-45
Earonn - 21 hours ago
Women were good enough to do all these jobs when there were no qualified men. And after returning, instead of being grateful, men pushed them down again, because apparently an accomplished woman makes men's d***s fall off.
Dee Hampton 11 hours ago
These gals went a long way to prove that women can be capable people. Not me, though. As I now use a wheelchair, I contribute to society by dispensing sarcastic comments.
Auntriarch 16 hours ago
One of my best friends' mother was in the ATA. I gave my friend a trip in a Tiger Moth for her 60th birthday, when she told the pilot about her mother, he insisted on letting her take the wheel.
kissmychakram 12 hours ago
I met one of these (probably not one of the ones pictured!) women some 35 years ago. Fascinating stories she had to tell.
#23
A Very Unique Photo Of The Regional Dress For Ladies In Navarre, Spain, And Particularly From The Town Of Ochagavía, Deep In The Basque Region, On The French Border
Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
Those pleats were ironed into what looks like heavy cotton. A huge amount of work.
Panda Kicki 1 day ago
I wonder if this was the inspiration for Miras K pop demon hunters) gala dress?
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
Imagine the pleats as they ironed them. Wonder if it's very windy there
Lady Eowyn 15 hours ago
Something is either unique or it isn't. There is no such thing as very unique, or a little unique.
#24
A Young Girl Looks After Her Baby Sister, In The Poverty Of Cholera Ravaged Streets Of Spitalfields, In The East End Of London, 1886
Chich the witch 12 hours ago
And we have people today sitting in a cafe whining on their phones about how tough their life is.
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
Sewage being untreated and entering groundwater that people drink, that's the number one cause of cholera, even these days people expire from it
#25
In 1925, Diphtheria Affected An Isolated Village In Alaska
The Norwegian Gunnar Kasen and his main dog Balto were the first to bring the serum to the village, through a snowstorm. For his courage, Balto had a monument of himself erected in New York’s Central Park.
Dee Hampton 10 hours ago
Gunnar must have had muscles of steel. I once tried to pick up my alsatian and slipped three discs.
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
Diphtheria k1ll3d alot of people. Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, had it but survived, but it affected her heart and she expired young from that.
#26
Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revists The Attic Entrance Where He And His Family Hid For Two Long Years, Before They’re Betrayal, Amsterdam, In The Netherlands, May 1960
#27
This Footprint Captures The Moment, Over 4,000 Years Ago, When Someone Stepped Barefoot On A Mud Brick Left To Dry In The Sun, 2000bc, In The City Of Ur, Mesopotamia
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
So many things we know just because of the harsh weather conditions there
#28
A Little Girl Collecting Water, Sardinia, Italy, 1954
#29
A Portrait Shot Of An Athletic Couple Called Jura And Vera, Photographed In The 1930s Yugoslavia
Kelly H. Wilder 7 hours ago (edited)
Or perhaps Vera and Bradley or Vera and Waņg? (My mind is running all three names together at the moment so none, one, or both may be correct.) 🤔
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#30
Italians Queue To View The Nemi Ships Of Emperor Caligula’s, Which Were Elaborate Floating Palaces Containing Quantities Of Marble, Mosaic Floors, Heating, And Plumbing
They were rediscovered in the 1930s but destroyed by a fire during WW2.
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
Such a loss. I studied classics at varsity, and without seeing this picture, I could not have believed the scale of these ships.
Owen 22 hours ago
Big ships are always fascinating to me. No matter how old or recent they are. They are such feats of engineering, but most people don't ever get to be on one. I have always been on or near the water, so I've been up close to many, and been aboard quite a few. If you ever have a chance to look around one, do it.
#31
Two Fisherman Knit Their Winter Woolies, Ramsgate, Kent, England, 1940s
Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
It is surprising to many people that knitting until recently was considered a manly art women couldn't do well.
David Paterson 3 hours ago
Making and mending fishing nets used to be considered a woman's job worldwide from earliest recorded history. I'm surprised.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 3 hours ago
Knitting used to be solely a man's job, related to net-making. Women were the spinners of the wool yarn, men the knitters. It's becoming a popular hobby again
#32
A Pensive American Soldier Cradles A Puppy, Vietnam War, 1965
Chich the witch 12 hours ago
Fighting the good fight for General Electric, General Motors and General Foods.
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After The Berlin Wall Was Put Up By The Communists, A Family In West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Stuck In East Berlin, 1961
#34
Recycling In London, During The War, Out Of Necessity, Hornsey, London, England, 1943
G A 11 hours ago
A lot of pets were sadly rushed to be euthanized during the 'false war' before conflict began, due to scare stories about food shortages. It was estimated afterwards that it was unnecessary and thousands of cats and dogs died for no reason.
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This Photo Of The 17 Year Old Helen Konek Walking Into Her Igloo In Arviat, Nunavut In February 1949
Sally Moen 3 hours ago
See how she's walking down into it? That's how the ingenious way it works, the entrance is slightly below the living area. Cold air gets trapped at lower elevations, even a foot lower is enough to maintain warmer interiors of an ice house
#36
Hms Vidal Riding The Crest Of A Wave, Durian The Second World War, 1940
Owen 22 hours ago (edited)
Hold on *real tight*. You can't do much else in that kind of weather.
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M O'Connell 15 hours ago
Both this photograph and its caption are completely fake. HMS Vidal wasn't launched until 1951, and mooring lines are visible. Somewhere along the line someone took a razor knife and cut out a picture of the ship in port and pasted it onto this wave.
David Paterson 3 hours ago
Thank you. It's the shape of a near shore wave, not an open ocean wave.
Load More Replies... cugel. 4 hours ago
Yes, the AI that's going to run the world doesn't know the word during. Hooray.
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#37
A Group Of Young Dog Walkers, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1950
Dee Hampton 11 hours ago
Sherlock Holmes employed street kids to follow people and relied on their local knowledge.
#38
An Apprentice Son Learns His Craft From His Father, In A Cobbler’s Shop, Italy, Mid 19th Century.m
S Bow 14 hours ago
Probably using a sewing awl. I just taught myself how to use one and it's not easy even for heavy fabric. I can imagine the hand cramps from sewing leather with one.
Dee Hampton 11 hours ago
My grandfather died over 50 years ago but I still use his awl. He was a gifted craftsman so I hope his genius rubs off on me!
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#39
Ava Gardner, At The Age Of 19, In 1942
Kelly Scott 8 hours ago
I've read so many stories of WWII and now it seems as if it were just yesterday. So many of the people I've read about in WWII were born from 1915 to 1925. And I have to stop myself and remember, that was a hundred+ years ago and they're all gone now.
#40
Fisherman In Sou’westers, Off The Coast Of Cornwall, England, Early 20th Century
#41
A Roman Ship, Made From English Oak, Uncovered In 1910, On The South Bank Of The Thames During The Construction Of County Hall
Dee Hampton 10 hours ago
When I lived in London, I was very aware that so many buildings were centuries old, even millennia. If you want to see some really ancient buildings, go to the City of London (the financial area) where there are repurposed monastic buildings, churches and pubs. On the north side of the river, by Blackfriars Bridge, there is a pub which is all that remains of the brewery belonging to Blackfriars monastery, closed down in 1538, at the orders of Henry VIII.
#42
A Soldier Returning From War, Meets His Child For The First Time, Location Unknown, Ww2
Jerome Lenovo 1 day ago (edited)
[joking mode ON] back from three years of war, he finally meets his one year old son [joking mode OFF]
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 9 hours ago
It does make me wonder how these kids feel meeting parents who have been away from war their whole lives. Like, yes, Mommy says that's Daddy, but you've never met that man in your life. It must be strange. Or is it an instinctive thing to recognize them? (I'm adopted, which I think adds to me wondering.)
Load More Replies... Dee Hampton 11 hours ago
An elderly navy veteran who used to go to my church was demobbed in 1945, given a cheap suit and told to hitchhike back from Egypt to London. He finally got back to his parents' home and knocked on the door. His mother answered and fainted backwards into the hall. His father came to the door and said "Hello, Son, don't mind your Ma. We got a telegram 2 years ago, telling us you were k****d in action. Want a cuppa?"
Daniela Lavanza 10 hours ago
I can't even fathom the happiness of the mum once she realized her son was alive.
Load More Replies... Spencer's slave no longer 5 hours ago
This photo was taken October 1939 when the British soldier was leaving to fight in WWII, not returning.
Tucker Cahooter 12 hours ago
They have now! No doubt someone at BP had to be revived with the smelling salts
Load More Replies... Spencer's slave no longer 5 hours ago
This photo was taken in October 1939 as this British soldier was going to fight in WWII, not returning from war.
Spencer's slave no longer 5 hours ago
This British soldier is saying goodbye to his child as he leaves for mainland Europe in 1939. Hopefully he came home.
#43
A Photo Entitled, Sibling Love, Chicago, USA, 1945
Kelly H. Wilder 7 hours ago
See that super happy guy in the background? My guess is that's one proud papa.
#44
A Little Boy All Dressed Up, New York City, USA, 1949
#45
A Lifeboat Launched From The St. Mark And St. Agnes Races To Save Lives, After The Arden Craig, A Three-Masted Wheat Ship From Melbourne, Australia, Crashed Into Rocks After The Captain Became Disoriented In The Fog
Earonn - 21 hours ago
The volunteers that man life boats are the real heroes, not some athlete. And they go out for everyone, not just for those the eugenic racists deem "worthy".
Owen 10 hours ago
I completely agree. Lifeboat people are made of real tough stuff. And in the UK, they are not paid a penny but have to be available 24/7 and to risk their lives whenever needed. It's all volunteers.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
One of the very underestimated things in the UK is the organized lifeboats and the number of people saved annually by volunteers.
Spencer's slave no longer 5 hours ago
Two lifeboats launched from St. Mark and St. Agnes when the Arden Craig ran aground on rocks in just 9ft of water in the Isles of Scilly.
Dee Hampton 11 hours ago
That lad in the cap looks a bit young to be doing the job. Work experience?
#46
Irish Children Sit Outside And Eat Potatoes And Milk With Their Grandmother , Location Unknown, Ireland, 1915
Nicole Weymann 18 hours ago
Granny looks ancient. I wouldn't be surprised if she was only 45 or something, though.
Caitlin Youngquist 13 hours ago
Potatoes (with the skin) and milk are a nutritionally complete meal, I hear.
Dee Hampton 10 hours ago
In the '60s and '70s, my family visited my Granny Alice in West Cork every summer. A typical lunch would be boiled potatoes in their skins with milk or cream.
#47
A Suffragette Is Arrested In A Park, London, C1910
Did I say that out loud? 1 day ago
But where will it end? Next you'll be wanting jobs,be able to drive,or even*clutches pearls* get elected to public office!
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Kelly Scott 8 hours ago
I'm loving these captions. Who, what, where, when, and we can supply the why.
Jane Doe-Doe 9 hours ago
Photographer.. ‘ hold still for a mo while I get a photograph of this hardened criminal’
#48
A Chimney Sweep Goes About His Business, Frankfurt, Germany, 1947
Unicorn Handstand 10 hours ago
Now I'm thinking: Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim, che-ree
Sally Moen 2 hours ago
They still use similar brushes for chimneys today, difference is they use fans and covers to capture all the soot from entering the interior of your home
#49
Marilyn Monroe Visiting An Injured American Soldier, Evacuated To Japan From Operations On The Korean War, 1954
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
I expect that brightened his day as much as was possible in his horrifying circumstance.
#50
An Artist In The Rain Paints, With The Sacre Coeur In The Background, Paris, France, 1946
M O'Connell 15 hours ago
I'm sure that's some of it, but paint has gotten much better at not having things stick to it, and the pressure washer was also invented somewhere in the interim.
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Two Nannies With Their Charges, London, 1950s
Dee Hampton 10 hours ago
The 'pram' is actually a carrier for WW1 veterans with missing limbs. It showed they were well-made if they were still in use 30+ years later.
#52
The Meeting Point Of The Pacific And Atlantic Oceans: Their Water Do Not Mix, A Phenomenon Based On The Difference In The Composition Of Each Ocean’s Water
David Paterson 3 hours ago (edited)
Looks more like river water to me. Where the Amazon River (right) and the Rio N*gro (left) join there's a boundary like this.
Sally Moen 2 hours ago (edited)
If you go to the tip of Washington state where it meets the Columbia River, with Oregon on the other side, you can see this effect. The river water slowly oozes west into the Pacific Ocean, and its a definite difference in color
#53
Building The London Underground, In This Case, The Central Line In 1898
Spencer's slave no longer 5 hours ago
Both the unskilled and skilled workers involved in building the London Underground were unionised as early as 1889. The skilled workers were predominantly miners who began to unionise in the mid 1700s.
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A Bulgarian Bride And Groom On Their Wedding Day, From The Sofia Region, Bulgaria 1893
#55
A Picture Of The Fishing Boat “New England”, Covered In Ice, British Columbia, Canada, 1911
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Reminds me of the scene from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
#56
Portrait Of A Sicilian Girl, Italy, Early 20th Century
#57
A Little Girl With A Grizzly Bear, Location Unknown, Mid 20th Century
Owen 22 hours ago
It could be Ukraine. Or Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden or Finland. But I'd bet Russia too.
Load More Replies... Russell Bowman 7 hours ago
Some history: the girl is Catherine Willford ... Encampment, Wyoming ... according to a search
#58
A Beautiful Portrait Of A Sicilian Fisherman, Brooding About His Days At Sea, Sicily, Italy, 1870
#59
This Is A Mugshot Of 12 Year Old Jane Farrell, Sentenced To 10 Days Of Hard Labour, For The Theft Of A Pair Of Boots, Served At Newcastle Gaol, North Of England, 1874
Sally Moen 2 hours ago (edited)
Hard labour might be picking oakum, which is pulling apart old rope to be retied into new lengths of rope. Might be other tiring boring work.
Earonn - 21 hours ago
And please also remember that at the same time rich f***s could do with her what they wanted and they wouldn't have even been reprimanded. But hey, let's kick the poor for not only stealing shyte.
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Danni 10 hours ago
Are you mentally ill? this is not a bunch of bored 90's kids in a mall.. do you know what hard labor was in 1874? this is a starving child. You need help.
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The Discovery Of The Ancient Statue Of Antinous, Which Was Dug Up At A Site In Delphi, Greece, During An Excavation In 1894
otiose 1 day ago
It's okay - the Greeks valued small equipage. Also, it's not female - showing any bare part of a female causes hard to control lust in men. /s
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#61
A Barefooted Italian Girl Plays With A Bird, In Naples, Italy, 1900
#62
Mother And Child, Canada, Late19th Century
#63
A Flying Saucer Photographed At A Junkyard In New Mexico, USA, 1962
Patrick van den Houten 10 hours ago
pic is AI... non-existing cars. its just a nice fake, but still may details are off. nice done tho.
David Paterson 3 hours ago
You're right. Some of those cars never existed. No junkyard ever looked this neat and tidy.
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A Photograph Of An Italian Lady In Front Of The Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Taken In 1897
Pagan squirrel 11 hours ago
Fantastic photo. That beautiful lady has been forever frozen in time, selling her fruit.
#65
A Portrait Of Life In London’s Famous Portobello Road, London, 1954
Sally Moen 2 hours ago
The 2nd little girl played with her doll like I used to: twisted the heck out of their limbs
#66
A Photo Of Laura Petty, A Six-Year Old Berry Picker, On Jenkins Farm, In Maryland, 1909
Lotekguy 8 hours ago
Those kids will have to fill the jobs vacated by the undocumented aliens they're deporting.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 2 hours ago
I cannot tell what kind of berry plants they are. Anybody? Almost look like raspberry, but not quite.
#67
Medieval Warrior's Scull
Annika Kremer 9 hours ago
This is probably from the battlefield in Towton. The really shocking part is that many of the skeletons found had brutal injuries that were found to be years old, aka, the men in question survived them and continued to go to war. Some very tough guys!
Load More Replies... Spencer's slave no longer 4 hours ago
He was found in a mass grave at Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. He had a disagreement with an axe according to a 3D reconstruction of the wound and skull.
#68
Photo Booth: Jfk With Future Wife Jackie During Their Dating Days
Sally Moen 2 hours ago
I loved her portrayal in that episode of The Crown, where she and President Kennedy visited Windsor Castle, and she explained how she was very introverted but ended up marrying a complete extrovert like Jack
#69
A Studio Portrait Of A Young Woman , Location Unknown, 1870s
Sally Moen 2 hours ago
This is one of those portrait cards they used to take in the old days. You can see it was previously in a round frame
#70
A Promotion Photo Of 22-Year-Old Wasp (Women’s Airforce Service Pilot) Pilot, Shirley Slade, Who Was Employed In The War To Deliver Planes To The Us Military For Deployment, All Over America, 1943
Tea Drinker 23 hours ago
Not according to Pig Hegseth and the orange a****t. Nope. No women or blacks or anyone who wasn't a white man. Gotta erase those "lies".
#71
Federico Caprilli Demonstrates The Skills Of His Horse As Part Of The Esteemed Italian Cavalry School, 1906
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Nasty thing to put a horse through, since the horse would probably bear the brunt of a fall.
Huddo's sister 1 day ago
Reminds me of images of 'horse diving' I saw on QI recently (might have been an old episode). There was a fad in the US where horses would be taken up to a tall platform and then they would 'dive' into a pool. Or rather, the platform would drop and they would plummet.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 15 hours ago
He was also demonstrating that the overly forward riding position of many cavalry men would unbalance the horse, whereas being over the horse's center of gravity helps stabilize them. It was a brutal test for man and horse, but Caprilli had some innovative ideas for improving horsemanship.
Lotekguy 8 hours ago
It was a lot more brutal for the horse than for the man. And I doubt the horse volunteered for the exercise.
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A Youngster Braves It Out During The Blitz On London, With His Teddy Bear, 1940-41. The Capital Was To Endure Over Seventy Nits Of German Bombs
Russell Bowman 7 hours ago
The fallacy of a spell check ... nits is a word ... an insect egg and/or a degree of brightness of an electronic screen
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#73
A Happy Couple At The Beach, Coney Island, New Jersey, USA, 1950s
Lady Eowyn 15 hours ago
Coney Island is in Brooklyn, New York City. (Brooklyn is one of the 5 boroughs of New York). Coney was an old English term for rabbit, and when the first people arrived there, the island was heavily populated by rabbits.
emorinelli49 4 hours ago
Whenever I see a photo of an old couple, I try to remember that they were once young and carefree like this couple. ❤️
#74
A Group Of Orphans In Their Winter Coats, With A Nun From Margaret House, Hammersmith, London, 1929
Debby Keir 11 hours ago
Actually, it was Nazareth house in Hammersmith. Lots of nuns trained as nurses at Fulham hospital and then Charing Cross when the NHS came in.
Lily bloom 9 hours ago
The coats (and hats) look warm, but i feel for the littles with cold knees due to the style of the time.
#75
A Picture Of Orphan Children Homed By The Charity Run By Dr. Barnardo, London, England, 1880s
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
The child at the top left looks like he could be related to King Charles. This photo breaks my heart.
Roxy222uk 16 hours ago
Who else wants to hug every single one of them, give them a bath, a hot meal, and tuck them up in bed?
Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
Dr. Bernardo's was a rescue charity for children in England in the Victorian era.
Kelly Scott 8 hours ago
Get your vaccinations, folks! These kids are more likely orphans because their parents died of diseases we can prevent with vaccinations today.
#76
A Studio Portrait Of A Young Woman, Location Unknown, Late 1800s
#77
Fishermen Land A Big Tuna, Sicily, Italy, Date Unknown
Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
You have little idea how big a tuna can get. Average size is a man.
Selina Heimlich 7 hours ago
I'm pretty sure that Luciano Pavarotti and Sammy Hagar. (Just kidding)
#78
Brooklyn Bridge Under Construction, NYC, 1880
#79
Trying Out A Fake Tree Observation Post, On The Northern End Of The Trenches That Ran From The English Channel To Switzerland, That We Call The Western Front,
#80
A Photo Portrait Of Mark Twain With His Friend, John T. Lewis, Who Was Born A Free Man In Maryland And Who Had Migrated To Upstate New York, 1903
#81
Charlie Chaplin On Wall Street, Celebrating Victory Over Imperial Germany, 1918
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago (edited)
Wow. This feted lifestyle was going to change when Joe McCarthy arrived on the scene.
Michael Largey 10 hours ago
Fairbanks was always a great supporting character as well as a lead.
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Survivors From The 87th Floor Of The World Trade Center (North Tower) Wandering In The Dust After The Collapse Of The South Tower, New York City, September 11, 2001
shg stewart 8 hours ago
As of last year at least, more people have died from exposure to the dust and smoke than in the actual attack, by about a thousand.
Antoinette the Red 13 hours ago
We didn't forget, but this current administration sure has.
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A Nursery Run Out Of East London, England, In 1911
Huddo's sister 1 day ago
I didn't realise they ran nurseries like this then. I thought it was all private ones in wealthy families and if needed working class children were just left with family or neighbours. I suppose it could be in an orphanage, but they look too well cared for. Interesting photo to see.
#84
Soviet Peasants Listen To The Radio For The First Time, Ussr, 1928, The Year That Stalin Became Dictator Having Won A Bitter Leadership Battle, Following The Death Of Lenin In 1924
Kelly Scott 8 hours ago
I hope here in the US, WE survive what is to come, since our own personal dictator has seized power.
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A Coke Delivery Truck, Location Unknown, USA, 1909
Laszlo Larthlanc 16 hours ago
That kind of looks like a gas tank under the truck.
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A Beautiful Daguerreotype Of A Smiling Father And Child, Location Unknown, 1856
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
Fortunately the bub didn't move too much. Apparently exposures averaged from 3-8 seconds at this time.
#87
The Mildred, Shipwrecked On The Rocks Around Gurnards Head, Cornwall, 1912, On A Journey From Newport To London Carrying Slag
#88
Henry Worsley, The British Explorer Who Lost His Life In 2016, Attempting A Solitary Trek Across Antarctica
#89
The Rear-Front Memorial, A Bronze And Granite Monument Erected In Steel City Of Magnitogorsk, Russia, Sculpted By Lev Golovnitsky, In 1979
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
The statue on the left looks like Clark Kent. Wait - sorry - no glasses. I mean Superman.
Grace Sssssss 3 hours ago
Maybe they mean arms manufacturing? Like, the "home front"? I must say I find it funny to put up a granite and bronze monument for a steel city.
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A Lady Plays A Game Of Petang/Petanque, In The South Of France, 1970s
Auntriarch 16 hours ago
I'm pretty certain my mother had the Marks and Spencer equivalent
Load More Replies... Ace 23 hours ago
Boules is a more general historical term for a variety of similar games going back to roman times, just like bowls or bowling in English refers to several different sports; pétanque is a specific codified version from provence dating back just a hundred years or so.
Load More Replies... Lukas (he/him, it/its) 8 hours ago
Maybe they respect her and see her as more than a pair of legs?
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A Group Of Children Playing In A Small Village, Location Unknown, 1905
Lil be lil 6 hours ago
That's not an actual bridge and if you want to see Trolls you need to go to Michigan.
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A Young Boy Stops To Be Photographed, While Picking Hops, Yakima Valley, Washington, USA, 1939
BioMom 1 day ago (edited)
Multa Nocte- You are going to give yourself a stroke!
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Kelly Scott 8 hours ago
To be honest, if your family was working to eat, then everybody had to work somehow, no matter how young. It's a lesson we seem to have forgotten today, especially here in the US. We think we know poverty - we don't. I doubt most people today, no matter how poor, have actually seen how bad things can really get.
#93
A Farmer In Central France Surveys His Domain, C1961
#94
An Oldish Couple, Perhaps Sharecroppers, Happy With Their Lot, From The Beginning Of The Last Century, Exact Location Unknown, But From The American South
Lil be lil 6 hours ago
Well they just gotta laugh. Wearing actual rags and such things. Look how you got me when I'm down they probably said....👺
Load More Replies... C Hendrix 7 hours ago
If this was after Emancipation, I imagine being free felt pretty good.
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Some Kids In Dust Bowl America, In The Great Depression Of The 1930s
Grace Sssssss 3 hours ago
Yeah, they must be "happy with their lot"! (see sharecropper picture).
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 2 hours ago
You can tell the age of the photo by the haircuts. Bowl cuts they were called
#96
Kids Playing Together, Nebraska, USA, 1910
Kelly H. Wilder 6 hours ago
Because bigotry and all -isms are taught, not inherent, there is hope. Hope that each generation can change, improve, and heal.
#97
5-Year Old Harold Walker, Who Was Employed To Pick 20 Pounds Of Cotton A Day. Oklahoma, USA, 1916
Jerome Lenovo 1 day ago
isn't capitalism great ? when slavery became illegal they made kids work /s
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago
I think that this was pretty normal under feudalism too. It's not capitalism that is to blame.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 8 hours ago
Hun, I don't wanna bust your bubble, but it's already here. There was a jam factory in some small town back in 2023 that was solving their labor shortage by employing primary school children. The caption was "They Sure are Trying Really Hard to Make Child Labor Look Adorable."
Load More Replies... Earonn - 21 hours ago
He might have been a genius who could have improved life for many. But never got a chance.
Antoinette the Red 13 hours ago
Exactly what tRump wants. You know he loves the uneducated for a reason(s).
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Checking The Sketch As Preparation For A Back Tattoo, France, 1950
#99
Brigitte Bardot Walking Barefoot In The Island Of Capri, Italy, 1963
#100
A Colorized Picture Of Three Girls Working As Oyster Shuckers, In South Carolina, USA, 1912
Antoinette the Red 13 hours ago
And I may have already upvoted you and will again.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 3 hours ago
that girl on the right looks like she's about 1 second away from shanking some fool.
#101
A Photo Of General High Brady Taken When He Was In His 80s, In The Late 1840s. The Good General Was Born In 1768, When The Us Were British Colonies And George III Was Still King
One of the oldest born persons ever to be photographed.
John Dilligaf 3 hours ago (edited)
It was Hugh Brady, not High Brady. Hugh Brady (July 29, 1768 – April 15, 1851, military service 1792- 1851) was a US Army Major General. He served in the Northwest Indian War, the War of 1812, the 1832 Black Hawk War, and the Mexican-American War. He died at age 82 after being thrown from his carriage when the horses bolted.
#102
A Photo Of Some Down Time, At Women’s Prison, Then Still Segregated, New Orleans, USA, 1963
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
I'm not sure about that guard. It might be fun, but with such an imbalance of power, it also might not be.
#103
Japanese Child Soldiers Of The Tekketsu Kinnōtai Are Interviewed By Us Military, On The Island Of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
#104
A Photo Of The Famous Harlem Debutante Ball, Held At The Renaissance Ballroom, The Renny"), Located At 7th Avenue And 138th Street In Harlem, New York City
Lotekguy 8 hours ago
My guess would be late '50s to early '60s, considering the short hair on the guys, heavy combo of updos and pearls on the gals.
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A Photo Of A Rest Stop For Geronimo And Other Apache Leaders After Their Surrender Ended The Apache Wars, 1886
They are on a Southern Pacific Railway train, near Nueces River, in San Antonio, Texas, en route to exile in Florida.
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Oh God - being exiled to Florida would be a fate worse than death for me. ;-)
Lil be lil 6 hours ago
Are they being detained at Alligator Alcatraz? History being repeated while also erasing the past at the same time.
#106
Sergeant Alvin C .york, A Famous American Soldier Of WW1 Being Greeted By His Mother On His Return Home To Pall Mall, Tennessee, 1919
Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
He was a tremendous hero who regularly put himself at risk to save others.
#107
A Us Army Chaplain Helps An Old Vietnamese Lady To Safety, In The Heat Of The Tet Offensive, Vietnam, 1968
#108
A Couple Of Sisters Enjoying The End Of The Day, In The Mid 20th Century, Locale Unknown, USA
Lee Gilliland 10 hours ago
"Worked herself to death" was not quite the funny phrase back then.
#109
Jeeps Abandoned In A Field, Somewhere In Liberated Europe, At The End Of World War II, Summer Of 1945
#110
Suffer The Children Unto Us: Christmas Dinner In Home Of Earl Pauley Near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner Consisted Of Potatoes, Cabbage And Pie, December 1936
Paige Merlin 7 hours ago
Pie is not an ingredient (Greg Davies iykyk) or specific enough to which course, one expects they could only afford savoury but pie is not enough to know!
#111
Jack Bonavita, A Circus Lion Tamer, Pictured With His Animals At A Show In New York, 1910: He Was Attacked And Ended By A Polar Bear He Had Tamed, One Has To Say Not Very Well, In 1917
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Gosh, who EVER might think that this could potentially maybe somehow happen?
Lil be lil 5 hours ago
Those blind lions easily trained by that m*f* wonder if the Lions Club for the blind got their name from these lions being able to follow those whips and canes.
#112
Portrait Of 2 Boys With Their Baby Sibling, Manhattan, New York, USA, 1918
#113
Edwardian Hobnobbing: Dinner At The Astor Hotel, New York City, USA, 1904
Earonn - 21 hours ago
Look at all the white, rich, men, feasting on what they have stolen from those who did the work. Parasites, and lots of people still worship such cvnts.
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