A Picture Tells A Thousand Words: 50 Beautiful “Old Photos”

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A very happy couple.

Very pretty

Am I the only one who feels the fashion from back in those times is under-rated? Look how nice and classy everyone dressed, even those who were financially less fortunate and had to dress in “rags” knew how to make it look like class

Just wow.

That man worked. Look at the size of his hands.

What a majestic picture :) Idk, just something about it

I always find generation photos fascinating.

It must be so amazing for him to see how far technology has advanced and what the future is like, truly incredible

I love the hats.

This looks like an album cover if I’ve ever seen one!

She would have more room under the car if she put some air in the tire!

It be the Black Pearl

Why aren’t these still around?

That’s an impressive bicycle! There is something artistic about it.

Wonder how their life turned out. I love all these pics.

The sisters also refused to sell their land when the government wanted to make the Smokey Mountains a national park, so they let them live there

Blimey they look serious. Mind you, hopefully in a hundred years time people will look upon our cheesy grins and silly 'duck face' photos and realise they look ridiculous.

I'm impressed with the little chain that's holding it up.

Fine looking men!

Beautiful young ladies!

The little sailor shirt and short pants. He looks so cute.

Momma's boots are amazing!

“The gang’s all here!”

She looks a little bit like Anna Chlumsky to me

They look happy! Contentment? Beautiful faces.

I wonder how that ended . . .

Watching and waiting for dad to arrive...

How scandalous! Look at those ankles!

I'm impressed by the fact that they had six guys cleaning one house worth of windows. Nowadays it's usually one guy with a pressure washer and a long squeegee getting the whole thing done.

Holy s**t it was HUGE, too bad it burned down ☹️ I’d of love to seen it, and to have gone inside it. Makes you wonder how many years it took to build; and exactly how tall/big it was

Back-breaking work

Dude in the back is totally checking her out, lol!

How about the 2 guys in the back, just causually standing there with legs crossed, leaning on stock- as though this wasn't the sketchiest game of jenga ever.

Near as I can tell he's not driving a combine, he's driving a Farmall tractor. Farmall made a tow behind tractor combine. Much later they made self driving combines but they look much different. I'm not trying to be pedantic. I was genuinely curious because our family farm had a couple of really old Farmall tractors. One of them literally had a crank in the front to start the engine like you see in movies with old timey cars. EDIT: And they ran. I've driven them a lot. Mostly pulling hay wagons , some plowing.

I bet none of those kids sassed the teacher.

Pretty cool little camper

So regal! Very happy to see historical photos of black people, looking happy, prosperous and together with their families!!!!

Smile honey, we'll have the rest of this on you in a couple of hours.

When brides wore black

The guy on top sitting in the box cracks me up

That hoodie looks so contemporary it's insane 🫨

OH they were headed for a bad year. Look up the Schoolhouse blizzard of 1888. In one day the temperature went from 40F to -20F. Pardon my freedom units but it was in the US. So about 10C to -15C. In one day. Kids went to school and froze to death on the way home.

With knickers, no need to roll up their pants legs. Also notice even fishing they wore hats

I was wondering how old timey photo man managed to get such a clear freeze frame of the wheel spokes. Then it dawned on me - duh - it was probably a posed shot and the wheels were stationary.

Gold diggers?

they still paint it today, just using different equipment - but there are photos taken in the last few years showing people using hand brushes to get certain spots. Fun fact, it takes 30,000 litres of paint to give the bridge one layer, and the colour is a special grey that isn't sold to the public. You can read about how the bridge is painted here: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/current-projects/repainting-bridge-technology-maintenance-sydney-harbour-bridge-precinct

I couldn't imagine that long of a journey. Today you see how dramatically people act in the airport when their flight is delayed.

Living the dream: Selling soda for money while reading a good book😀

If she was Emma Peel that parasol would be a secret deadly weapon. It reminds me of old time saw mill blades.

It was and incredibly rough period for so many people. My dad was just a child. My grandfather left my grandmother to raise him alone. (Jerk) Fortunately, my aunt has a happening restaurant in Hollywood so my grandmother packed up and left Texas and came out to California (with a revolver in her lap as there were still gangs of bandits out in the desert. The motion picture studios and therefore my great aunt’s restaurant did relatively well compared to so many other places in the world at this time. My grandmother was able to feed the family and keep a roof over their heads working at the restaurant. During and after the war she worked at Lockheed. She was an amazing woman. I wish I was older and had been able to have spent more time with her.

My grandma had pictures hanging of my dad and uncle wearing potato sacks with a rope around the waist. Never knew they were that poor until I was older and it explained why my dad worked so hard.

that would be weird to say you walked across the top of Niagara Falls. Such a unique flex.

I don't think that they were short of a dollar.

Would this be considered the forerunner to glamping?

I was not familiar with this term as applies to farmers. Apparently means trying to make a farm work on crappy land. From internet: "everal actions in the 1920s also increased the region’s vulnerability to drought. Low crop prices and high machinery costs (discussed in the previous section) meant that farmers needed to cultivate more land to produce enough to meet their required payments. Since most of the best farming areas were already being used, poorer farmlands were increasingly used. Farming submarginal lands often had negative results, such as soil erosion and nutrient leaching. By using these areas, farmers were increasing the likelihood of crop failures, which increased their vulnerability to drought."

We forget what people went through for the infrastructure we have today!

The barber has a hella of a mustache!

They worked on top of the conveyor belts separating the impurities from the good coal, or they worked in separate sort areas where the chutes went. Mostly boys work, age 8-12, sometimes older miners or those who were sick or had been in accidents. Was dangerous work because they used their feet to stop the flow of coal on the belt to pick out the bad bits. Also coal was sharp so lots got hurt, lost fingers, feets, limbs etc. Some even crushed to death. Impurities washed with sulphuric acid which was dangerous too. In 1907 reports of 24,000 breaker boys working, took until 1920 til it mostly stopped. "Kids these days, don't know they're born!"

Nice way to travel in comfort if you had the money. A little noisy tho