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50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page
Sorting through dusty manuscripts and volumes of mysterious books is how many of us imagine finding evidence in history. But our past is far more than a string of names and dates. It is about how people lived in the past and molded our society. It is about their hopes and dreams, their fears and disappointments, and what pushed them to make the decisions and inventions they did.
But there’s something else that can offer us an intimate glimpse into the lives they led and make historical events seem more real, rather than merely stories. We’re talking about authentic pictures that documented the wonders of that time. Luckily for us, plenty of examples can be found in a heartfelt corner of the internet called the 'Old Photos Of The World' Facebook page.
While we can’t time travel back to the past (yet!), we can at least look at these pictures full of unstaged scenarios and build our own interpretations. So continue scrolling because we at Bored Panda gathered some of the best pictures for you to enjoy! And after you’re done, make sure to check out our earlier compilations full of important historical images and old photos in real life.
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#1
Camberley Kate, And Her Stray Dogs In England. She Never Turned A Stray Dog Away, Taking Care Of More Than 600 Dogs In Her Lifetime (1962)
SewingStaffy 3 years ago
My mum spent a large part of her younger years living in Camberely. She remembers Kate with fondness. You never once saw her with less than 3 dogs. Mum says she was such a lovely lady
PatriciaB 3 years ago
She doesn't have a statue but does have a block of flats named after her.
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Good woman. On another note, I remember those old carts made with a box and pram wheels.
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#2
An Officer Halts Traffic To Make Way For A Cat Carrying A Kitten Across The Street, 1925
Olivia Marker 3 years ago
Dude it's nearly a hundred years since this photo, I think it's had
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Settler Family On The American Prairie In The 1880s
Seabeast 3 years ago
A photograph was a rare and expensive thing back then. You dressed up in your very best clothes and maybe even borrowed some from the photographer if you didn't have any.
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Turt_Le 3 years ago
There's a lot of emotion captured in this picture. I see triumph, pride and defiance mixed with weariness
Seabeast 3 years ago
Probably born into slavery and had to be tough to survive.
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shinshige 3 years ago
This image came from the podcast interview on the history of African-American migration into the west and black pioneers. https://thisishell.com/interviews/1011-anna-lisa-c*x
K. Anderson 3 years ago
Imagine wearing all this in the summer plus there were no cooling devices
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Not long after the Civil War. I hope that they were successful. It was hard for settlers, period.
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
Likely they were successful, until racism reared its ugly head.
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Photography has come a long way in its rather short history. When you think about it, cameras are everywhere today, helping us capture important occasions and put them into our visual collection of memories. But it was not always like that. A bigger part of history passed without people preserving memorable moments, and only when the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first permanent photograph in 1826/27, a breakthrough in the history of photography began. People started capturing their everyday life often without realizing future generations would look at this concrete evidence of a world long gone with immense fascination.
#4
This Mirror Portrait Was Taken 100 Years Ago In Japan
Mihai Mara 3 years ago
Maybe he was a time traveler and was like "let's take a selfie". She was like "a what now?".
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Kayla J 3 years ago
The worst part about this is realizing it was only ~1920s and not like the late 1800s.
Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
Sheesh. And here I thought my Mum was a trailblazer when she did it in the '70s! 1975-Mums-...b4753b.jpg 
New Everywhere 3 years ago
You think they did this over and over until they got the perfect one lol
#5
Two Armenian Women Pose With Their Rifles Before Going To Battle Against The Ottomans, 1895
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
The woman on the left has been identified as Eghisapet Sultania, the woman on the right is unknown. It is thought that this was taken in a photo booth with props. The back of the image has the word "souvenir" written on it.
Ki Li 3 years ago
That's kinda funny. I wonder if in 100 years the picture I took in Dollywood as a western bar floozy will be misconstrued.
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DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
Haha, that’s exactly what I said before I read your comment.
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ZentheOgre 3 years ago
It looks like a staged photo for "What we do in the shadows". It is awesome that something like this exist outside of the realm of fiction! Although it's sad as well when you consider the underlying events.
Rick Spencer 3 years ago
The Turkish authorities srill deny the Armenian genocide of 1915 onwards. Some 1.5 million Armenians where massacred.
#6
Rare Photo Of A Remote Control From The 70's
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
Exactly! The worst was when you had to hold the antenna too and you couldn’t move and watch the TV yourself because as soon as you moved the reception was gone.
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Dawn Depietro 3 years ago
Funny in the 70s how the remote the dishwasher and the vacuum all look the same
Joseph rick 3 years ago
The Next remote had an inconveniently short cord on it, bastard of a thing - the goffa kid was always better.
The 'Old Photos Of The World' Facebook page lets us in on this world. Ever since it was created, it has amassed history and photography lovers from far and wide to share opinions, have discussions and look for answers to the questions they have about that time. It is exactly the place for all history enthusiasts to get a peek into the early days.
"The purpose of this page is to remember history by sharing historic photos and videos from around the world," the creators wrote in the page description. "We post old photos from the 1800s and 1900s. We also love colorized photos and videos!" They invite more than 507K of their devoted fans to go on a trip with them to the past and offer a fair share of content to explore.
#7
Happy French Girl And Her Cat, 1959
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Reminds me of the back of my nana's house where the outside shared toilets were. I lived with her very happily and thought all houses had outside toilets.
Laura Osborne 3 years ago
Poor cat doesn't look too happy, but what a lovely smile from the little girl :)
#8
Soldier Coming Home To His Daughter After WWII, 1945
TahJia Williams 3 years ago
Yea, cuz wow thats a crazy war to be able to come home from
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Jods 3 years ago
My mum was born in 1939. Her dad was enlisted in 1940 and didn’t see him again until 1944. She didn’t recognise him and cried when he came home. He was listed as missing in action after landing in Singapore where the ships were attacked by the Japanese. Because no one heard from him he was then listed as missing, presumed killed. He evaded capture, made his way to Egypt and reported himself as fit for redeployment. He was told to join a ship headed for New York, given 2 weeks leave and then re-enlisted as a sapper for the remainder of the war. He never talked about what happened. We didn’t find out most of this until after he died when a large bundle of letters written to him by wives/family of others missing in Singapore was discovered. There aren’t many army records either to tell us what he went through.
#9
David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility
Lizzie Smith 3 years ago
Good man, David! You and your fellow campaigners made the world a better place. But there's still a long way to go.
Jennifer Lewis 3 years ago
The fact that only one child smiled while others looked scared really says it all. Good on you, David! 👏
Zero 3 years ago
To me, all but two of the kids in the water just look confused, or maybe don't care (the one smiling and the taller one in the back). Everyone else though... I find it interesting that they're still just sitting there rather than throwing a fit.
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New Everywhere 3 years ago
Yes! They lost their s**t over integration. The brave who dared be the first ones went through c**p like this. Imagine just trying to have fun, cool off with a swim only to be treated like a contaminant. They drained pools, closed facilities, threw bleach in while kids were in. Look it up.
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
2022 In Florida entire tax district abolished because the mouse said gay.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
I remember people freaking out when a person of color went into the pool in the 1970s - the only thing polluting the pool though were the racist pieces of garbage
According to Anna Pegler-Gordon, associate professor at the University of Michigan, even when history textbooks are full of images that illustrate our past, we rarely spend time exploring these pictures and focus on the written content instead. "We do so because of the way that images are presented in many historical texts and also because of the way that historians are trained to view images — as illustrations of written history rather than sources of history themselves," she explained.
However, there’s evidence of a "visual turn" in learning and teaching the subject because more academics are starting to pay attention to the paintings, illustrations, and photographs in history. Pegler-Gordon noticed that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than written records. They sometimes mention to her that images give a more concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Moreover, historical pictures transmit information much quicker than words written in an old, unfamiliar, or even foreign language.
#10
Two Gentleman From The Early 1900s
Turt_Le 3 years ago
With the jaunty set of their hats I'd add swag to the list too
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Natasha 3 years ago
why do people not dress like that anymore. THESE ARE THE TRENDS Y'ALL ARE SUPPOSED TO BRING BACK
BlahBlahBlackSheepah 3 years ago
How your clothes fit is everything. We lost that with mass manufactured garments
#11
A Man Getting To Hear Music On A Record Player, 1922
Kayla J 3 years ago (edited)
from the documentary Nanook of the North, though there have been some questions about the staging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqEIJM5TghY and the gramophone information is under "Visit to the trade post of the white man" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_of_the_North
Zero 3 years ago
I can't upvote this comment enough. It was a hugely important film everyone should be at least aware of if not watch. But did have a lot of contrived scenes and should not be taken as 100% factual.
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Sarah Rose 3 years ago
He was. The Inuit community today considers what occured to him to be a hate crime. As a native, though not Inuit, I agree with them
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Sarah Rose 3 years ago
The Inuit community considers it be a very racist piece of work. There's no denying it was staged, survivors spoke up then about Nanook being used as a colonial prop. It has a lot of racist scenes that go as far as to romantacize the colonization of the Inuit community. The film serves more so as a insight to the racist views against the native community, same spirit as Birth of Nation. It is one-hundred percent racist. As someone who grew up in Washington in the early 90's, I always had some appreciation for Cobain for respecting the local natives. This does not honor Kurts memory
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Sarah Rose 3 years ago
They did have a beautiful smile, it is a shame that they were not treated with respect. The Inuit community considers it be a very racist piece of work. There's no denying it was staged, survivors spoke up then about Nanook being used as a colonial prop. It has a lot of racist scenes that go as far as to romantacize the colonization of the Inuit community. The film serves more so as a insight to the racist views against the native community, same spirit as Birth of Nation. It is one-hundred percent racist
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I think this is Nanook. Even though he’d never heard anything like it before, he’s really enjoying it. Unfortunately, a year or two after the movie came out, he (and I think his family too) died of starvation. Really sad ending for a man who seemed to be so happy, and his family seemed to be happy too. If you ever get a chance to watch the movie—-it’s a silent movie, so you’ll be reading title cards instead of hearing dialog—-please do, because you get a good glimpse into Inuit life before radio, TV, and the internet.
Shirley Williams 3 years ago
That is historic only that it is from the first movies ever filmed on location , Nanook of the North - a silent film. Called the first documentary by some, although it was shot on location, it was scripted and staged.
#12
Same Scene, Same Motorcycle, Same Woman, 72 Years Old After
PotatoGirl31 3 years ago
Good eye! I didn't notice before! They probably regretted planting so close to the house!!
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"Our students are often sophisticated readers of visual media and, with guidance and support, they enjoy the process of viewing and analyzing historical representations," the historian wrote. "However, visual images are also inaccessible for the same reasons that they are accessible. The apparent legibility of the image hides its historical construction, the ways in which the image was made, distributed, and read at the time it was produced and since," she added.
#13
The Top Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza, Egypt
LuckyL 3 years ago
A picture of something that I've seen so many times that I've never seen before.
Thomas E S Thomas 3 years ago
There is damage to the top stones as they were once used to hold lights on top of the pyramid. Until quite recently not much care was paid to the ancient structure. 80% of the cover stones are missing, presumably stolen during the 12th century Arab Spring, used in the construction of mosques. Thousands of other stones and artifacts are missing from the complex as well. Oh, but you can get a pizza or a bucket of chicken five minutes from there. (The pyramids are in Cairo, not way out in the desert.)
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
My brain couldn’t tell at first if this was from above or from inside. It’s above, right.
#14
These Progressive High School Girls Learn The Finer Points Of Auto Mechanics In 1927
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
The best part about being a woman is we can do anything and while looking fly in heels 😝
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Seabeast 3 years ago
The interwar period was in many ways far more progressive than the 50s was. In the 60s and 70s women had to fight to take back a lot of what they'd taken for granted in the 20s through mid 40s.
Richard George 3 years ago
More complex than thst, at least in the UK. One of the hallmarks of the victorian era was the promotion and education of women. When she died and Edward took over there was a significant backsliding. This included removing girls from proper studies at school and switching to 'homemaking' skills. This outraged the older women who benefited from the freedoms of the victorian time. The result was the suffragette movement.
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I wasn’t allowed to even take automotive class in 1974. They made me take sewing!
Eulalie Grace 3 years ago
Same with Shop. I fought and spoke out. And the bastards allowed girls in Shop the year after I graduated.
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Taylor Carroll 3 years ago
Wish I could take classes that would teach me mechanic stuff and other traditionally-masculine-but-really-useful stuff..
Mikawa 3 years ago
Go to trade school/community college, look up how to do what you want to do, take online classes, ask a mechanic etc... Instead of wishing that you could, go out and do it! Nothing holding you back 👍
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jeff belli slack 3 years ago
I have read about this all-girl garage and as always; stupid straight white males made them pay for their independence and joi de vie ..............
Thorsten M. Weisner 3 years ago
Actually there are pics from Queen Elizebeth as a mechanic too from this time
#15
Train Travel In The 1890s
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Might want to give that another think. Trains ran on steam, heated by wood or coal fire. As a result, there was always smoke, ash, and quite often cinders, in the air around it. As the train sped forward, all the smoke and stuff blew back down the sides of the train. Also, this was pre-air conditioning, and everyone was all buttoned up to the chin, the wrists, and to the floor, in layers of heavy fabric. So, imagine a hot summer day riding a crowded train and feeling like you’re suffocating, because even though it’s hot AF with the windows closed, opening them means getting a load of smoke, ash, and cinders blowing into the car. Suffocate or asphyxiate. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Sorry to stomp on your rose-colored glasses, but I thought you should know that stuff from the past that seems to be so lovely was often far from it in reality.
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Auntriarch 3 years ago
Me too, except I would have been in the peasant class carriages
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To become better at reading images, we need to consider two things. The first would be to become more informed about our past and the context that surrounds it. Second, we should also learn how to distinguish when we're looking at an authentic photograph, and when we come across a manipulated one. Bored Panda previously reached out to the professor, writer, and amateur homesteader Joshua Wilkey who explained that while photography is a powerful tool for understanding history, it is also necessary to view all pictures with a critical eye.
#16
Helen, An American Indian Telephone And Switchboard Operator, Montana, 1925
Jerry The Joker 3 years ago
This is actually pretty mind blowing. To me at least. Old culture meeting new culture.
BrookeBT 3 years ago
Or it could just be that new culture took everything from her people and she had no choice but to get a job to take a job so the white man could talk s**t about her over the phone
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Rachel Smith 3 years ago
Isn't it American Native, or American indigenous. I thought American Indian was an outdated term
Bee she/her 3 years ago (edited)
Native American is the proper term. Edit: I have been corrected by @sarah rose that the proper term is native or indigenous. I apologize if I have offended or led anyone astray. I was ill informed, and I admit it.
Sarah Rose 3 years ago
No, it is not. If you're not native, do not speak for our community. If you are, please speak to our community before making such claims. It is native or indigenous, some people will tell you their tribe or geographical region. It is not American Native, or American Indigenous, nor is it American Indian, or Indian as all of these are colonial terms. The term America comes from Amerigo Vespucci, we don't claim ancestoral links to this Italian colonizer. It is offensive if you continue to do so once informed. There are plenty of people in the native community that still use these colonial terms or even Indian. After hundreds of years of surviving colonization, this is no surprise
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Charlotte Sandoval 3 years ago
Knowing the time period, I'm willing to bet they had her pose in her traditional clothes just for the picture, and she probably wore something more "every day white people" usually
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
"Helen." Right. How said her true name has been lost to history and the whitewashing of the Native American population :(
Sarah Rose 3 years ago
Please refer to people from this land as native, indigenous, or by their tribe. Many people in the native community, ask that the colonial term "Native American" not be used to describe us
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Somehow, I think the Native American blanket and feathers were staged by the (most likely white) photographer. There was a lot of really condescending, unfair, and completely untrue stereotyping done in those days, and this just smells like that’s what’s happening here. Chances are higher that this young woman spent her days, including going to work, wearing fairly typical clothing for the twenties. Maybe not high fashion, but at least average for most working people. She might not have bobbed her hair, she might not have worn lipstick, and she might have accessorized with a native belt or jewelry, but she would otherwise have been dressed like any other woman of the day.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
I suspect if she had dressed this way at school, she would have been punished pretty harshly.
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Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
They are called NATIVE! Here LONG before it was America or Canada.
Sarah Rose 3 years ago
Thank you for respecting my native community, you're the only one who got it right.
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jevais 3 years ago
Was this lady working as Switchboard operator on the American Indians reserve? I don't believe that a white telephone company would hire anyone that was not lily white!
Sarah Rose 3 years ago
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted. This is factual
Load More Replies... Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
She's native American. India is on the other side of the world, actually.
Sarah Rose 3 years ago
It is native or indigenous, some people will tell you their tribe or geographical region. It is not American Native, or American Indigenous, nor is it American Indian, or Indian as all of these are colonial terms. The term America comes from Amerigo Vespucci, we don't claim ancestoral links to this Italian colonizer. It is offensive if you continue to do so once informed. There are plenty of people in the native community that still use these colonial terms or even Indian. After hundreds of years of surviving colonization, this is no surprise. I wouldn't say a native person referring to themselves as Indian is offensive to people from India. Mostly because my community was forced to use this term by colonizer, after colonizer, up to the present day USA at the risk of death. Also, most USA documents prior to the 1950's refer to us as "savages" or "indians"
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Sarah Rose 3 years ago
She is beautifful, all the love to our native sisters. I'm so proud of her, her very existance is resitance
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A Little French Girl Gives An American Soldier A Kiss On Valentine’s Day, 1945
Brobro McDuderson 3 years ago
That young lady has no idea what he’s seen. Wholesome photo tho, I like his smile.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
He’s wearing a wedding ring, so might have kids of his own back home—-including a daughter about her age. I can only imagine just how badly he was missing them at this particular moment.
Missy Corron 3 years ago
He probably gave her chocolate..... US troops carried chocolates for the children.
#18
Cat Taking A Photo, 1909
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Parrot took the photo of the dog taking the photo of the cat taking the photo, 1909.
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Seabeast 3 years ago
I had one named Taffy once. She was probably smart enough to have done this.
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Deux 3 years ago
Cats were evidently rather clever back then. Nowadays they rely totally on their cuteness to achieve their goals.
Jennifer Lewis 3 years ago
I can't even get my cat to drink water without splashing it everywhere.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Oldest boy thinks it’s funny, other boy just wants to get back to playing baseball (or some sport), and the little girl looks like she’s thinking “can you believe this s**t?”
RedMarbles 3 years ago
I love that people have loved funny cat photos as long as there have been photos.
Micah 3 years ago
I'm not a historian, but I think photography was developed so people had proof of the crazy/funny things their cats did.
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"While we might be accustomed to skepticism of photos in the age of Photoshop, photo editing isn't the only thing that should give us pause," Wilkey noted. He provided a few helpful questions people can ask themselves when analyzing old pictures. For example, is the photo lacking context? Or what is happening outside of the frame?
"There's always the chance that the viewer is seeing an intentionally skewed perspective," Wilkey told us. "A picture might be worth a thousand words, but sometimes it takes a thousand words to explain the context of a single photo. Some pictures are downright strange without context."
#19
Four Generations, Circa 1905
Red Riding Hood 3 years ago
The two.women in the middle, look like Sisters! Instead of mother- daughter
magpookie1133 3 years ago (edited)
Well women had children in their late teens and early twenties in those days so they probably were not that far off in age.
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Eulalie Grace 3 years ago
Nah - it's legend that deceased people were propped up, standing, to take that last picture. If a Memento Mori photo has someone standing or sitting up straight, it's probably not a MM.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I have some cherished photos of my grandmother (b. 1911), my mother (b. 1942), myself (b. 1965), and my daughter (b. 1990).
Heather Steinbrink 3 years ago
I wish I had a family portrait like that. The progression of faces is informative and beautiful.
#20
Woman And Her Dog In Her One Room House, Texas, 1938
Chris Omer 3 years ago
She had a roof over her head, warmth, a cosy bed and a dog. A lucky woman, yesterday and today.
Steve Kenney 3 years ago
It's called a studio apartment these days and lots of people live in them just fine. She looks good and happy and so does that dog.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I remember my great grandma living in a house like this. She died while re-tiling her roof at 98 years of age.
#21
Sophia Loren, Circa 1955
Caro Caro 3 years ago (edited)
She is so beautiful. Her hour glass figure and stunning face. WOW
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Louise B 3 years ago
I almost hate to mention it because it shouldn't be an issue, yet it is. It's so refreshing to see a woman unashamedly displaying body hair. That confidence just adds to her beauty.
Kim Charles 3 years ago
I can't shave due to a medical condition and it's the most liberating thing ever!
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Pezor Zass 3 years ago
I really don't get the armpit hair hate. I have a co-worker who's really a wonderful and sweet person, but she sees armpit hair on women as just the most disgusting thing imaginable. I have to imagine it was something that was drummed into her in childhood for it to be that strong.
Bob Brooce 3 years ago
Definite, but common brainwashing. There are exactly two genders and only one is allowed to keep the hair that grows on their legs or in their armpits. Just don't let a conservative hear you calling it indoctrination.
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K. Anderson 3 years ago
It’s a CHOICE! I am a women & shave under my arms because I want to. The option is & ability to choose is all that matters
hobbitly 3 years ago
But not shaving often results in mockery. So is there really a choice?
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Theobolds Daughter 3 years ago
Shaving didn't become a thing in the UK, or the rest of Europe, until it was inherited from America. So, thanks for that.
Tim S 3 years ago
Sorry, but they shaved in ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ... heck, they regularly shaved everything in ancient Egypt (which I realize isn't part of Europe, but my point stands).
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Tigerpacingthecage 3 years ago
She looks gorgeous. And a great reminder for us to get over the whole weird issue we have with body hair.
Moreover, you should determine whether the photo is representative. In other words, can the photo indicate something bigger than itself? "For example, the internet has, for years, made fun of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for marveling at seemingly cool but likely fake things like modern and well-stocked grocery stores. These photos are meant to be representative images portraying for Kim's people and for foreigners that North Korea is a modern and well-nourished society," he explained. However, "the reality is a bit different."
#22
Men In Harlem Gather In Front Of A Shop To Listen To The Radio, 1940
Jane W. 3 years ago
I saw something like this in my visit to China in 1985----whole neighborhoods gathered in the street to watch one TV. A different world there now.
Fieke Engelen 3 years ago
I remember that. One family richer than most of us. They put their tv on the footpath for the neighbours to enjoy
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A Housewife Taking Frozen Long Johns Off The Washing Line, 1940s
Cory Tollman 3 years ago
It can be a quick way to dry things. Now you can shake off the ice and they'll be mostly dry. I never liked it as a way to dry things though.
Load More Replies... Gin 3 years ago
Having a photo taken was a fairly big deal. She probably didn't want to be captured for posterity in her slippers!
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Mihai Mara 3 years ago
used to love when clothes froze like that when we were kids. found it funny. :P
Grivzyrn Novarn 3 years ago
Frozen laundry was the best thing about housework ever! And carpet beating.
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kim morris 3 years ago
That was our house in the '60's. taking frozen blue jeans in off the line in winter was real fun, stacking them up like cordwood.
Mel in Real Life 3 years ago
So if they are frozen like that, are they dry? Or are they wet again when they thaw out? Inquiring minds from the south want to know.
Catlady6000 3 years ago
Depends on where you live and the local humidity. In the '70s in West Tennessee, sometimes it would just be freezing, and they would still be damp when they thawed, or there would be a year with snow and they would be almost completely dry, "perfect for Ironing" as my grandma would say
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Monique Reed 3 years ago
Housework. In the dead of winter. In heels. Our foremothers were made of stern stuff!
Robin Roper 3 years ago
I did that with cloth diapers in the 60's. We didn't have a clothes dryer until 1969.
#24
Do Your Bit! Skate To Work. Save Gas, NYC, 1940s
Zero 3 years ago
They definitely had fun but it wasn't a protest. Rather it was a USO Wartime Effort type demonstration; like the Rosie the Riveter posters. Gas rationing had been implemented so everybody was encouraged to find different ways to cut down and contribute to the war machine. These ladies also were deliberately not wearing nylons (scandalous!, lol), which had been requested that women give up to be used for naval guns.
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Briana Landers 3 years ago
This looka fun but all the sidewalks are all too busted up and dirty to skate on now
Flexiegirl94 3 years ago
Love the fashion and the smiles!!! The no-bra thing tho... I just can't relate!
Helderder 3 years ago
They're wearing bras. Just not padded. I've stopped wearing them too duering Corona. When did boobs and nipples got something that should be covered by a layer of foam?
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Allison Staley 3 years ago
Funny, some of the men are smiling, seem to be enjoying the girls. But the women are all looking on with disapproval.
#25
“Mother And Son” Ireland, 1890
Lizzie Smith 3 years ago
He's holding what looks to be a ticket for a ship. After the horrors of the famine, I hope they had some happy years. So many people left Ireland in the 19th century, but most left their heart behind.
Zero 3 years ago
According to the National Library of Ireland, he was a professional ballad singer and the paper is a poem called Scenery 'round St. Bridget's Well in the County Clare.
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Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
The woman looks like she has worked very hard her whole life :(
Kayla Belsches 3 years ago
Dang she looks ROUGH! Poor thing. I couldn't imagine how exhausted she must have felt.
jevais 3 years ago
Lacking proteins, proper housing and working hard ages one much faster. Meanwhile the gb Royals never looked like these people. Royalty always lived off their subjects who were basically slaves and made wars against their family members of other European countries. Royalty doesn't serve the subjects only their own interests.
Chandra Torres 3 years ago
She looks like she's REALLY ready for him to move out of the house FINALLY....
Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
Mom looks around 150 years old and sonny looks at least 100!!! His hat on the ground.....
Beep boop 3 years ago
It was a hard life, and people didn't often live long. No joke she could be anything from 50-75
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#26
Easter Bunny Bringing Joy To Children, 1955
Everything is fascinating. 3 years ago
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit.
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#27
The Use Of Masks During The Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918
Ally MacMann 3 years ago
They did then, too. Just like some people in London refused to switch their lights off at night during the blitz. Some people just don't care.
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Sarah Rose 3 years ago
True but think about all the material that was saved
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Sarah Rose 3 years ago
Out of the ordinary, surely. All the necessary bits covered and a lot of material is saved
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Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
There were plenty of mask deniers all over the world, unfortunately.
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Regina phalange 3 years ago (edited)
Proof we are moving backwards in evolution, we used to have common sense and wear masks and now we have no sense at all!
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago
To be fair, in that time missinformation MAY came from your neighbour, friends and family. Now we have Karen & friends from facebook telling us masks will kill U vaccines make u autistic.
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Joyce Berman 3 years ago
That was a much more lethal pandemic that killed somewhere between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide, and it mostly attacked young people and pregnant women. "The Great Influenza" is a good book to read about it.
#28
Testing Out The Latest Flight Helmet In A Highly Scientific Way, 1912
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
I've seen the original footage. He also has an entire football team kick him in the head as hard as they can.
Turt_Le 3 years ago
That's what I was thinking, the force of impact isn't going to stop at his head
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Report: His neck snapped like a twig but there was zero damage to the helmet. Success, gentlemen!
June’s Very Own 3 years ago (edited)
“Is he alive?” “Ummm… only just, though I think he has a concussion” “Brilliant! It works!”
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Looks like a football helmet not a flight helmet. Why would you even test a flight helmet like that?
#29
Charlie Chaplin Meeting Deaf-Blind American Author Helen Keller, 1919
A.J Milne 3 years ago
Deaf-blind American author? How does she write? I'm not being offensive, I just really need to know
NsG 3 years ago
She learned to sign into the hand of her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Hers is an amazing story and worth looking up. I believe the most famous media telling is the film/play The Miracle Worker (I prefer the 1960s version, but there have been others).
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Laura Dawson 3 years ago
If she was deaf and blind how did she learn language? Genuinely curious.
S 3 years ago
Not sure why people have downvoted your comment.. simply asking to be educated on something you don't know about is hardly a cause for negativity. Upvote for you.
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago (edited)
A bit of trivia: she had her blind eyeballs removed and replaced with glass eyes. There in turn we’re removed post-mortem, and were lost in the collapse of the WTC on 9/11
Gregory Gibbs 3 years ago
In the photo she is using Tadoma, or tactile lip reading. When I worked at Sense (The UK National Deafblind and Rubella Centre), an elderly colleague used a similar technique, but only with people she knew well.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Just wondering what Helen Keller got out of this? A film star of silent movies is not going to mean much to Helen Keller?
Jack Holt 3 years ago
He was a tap dancer. She would've been able to feel the vibrations of his dancing through the floor. Senses are enhanced when one (or more) of them is lost.
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Mike Harrington 3 years ago
She was one of the strongest human beings to ever live. I stand in awe of her.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
I saw the play 'The Miracle Worker' on stage in about 1969. I was absolutely transfixed, moved and fascinated, it was so inspiring. That was in a little local theatre, near my home outside London, UK. Replying to NsG, I don't know if it was the 1960s version.
#30
Drying The Pasta, Italy, 1929
Turt_Le 3 years ago
Smile is genuinely lovely, but it's a heartbreaking pic at the same time, knowing that child labour conditions and work safety in general were abysmal. These children are working to support their families instead of going to school and doing age appropriate activities
Candia Lee 3 years ago
That's assuming that working to support yourself and your family isn't age appropriate activity. But I do wonder how long they had to stand there.
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Must Be Bored Again 3 years ago
Lot of stunted growth in children due to wars, poverty, poor access to food.
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#31
This Farmhouse Once Stood In Manhattan Where 84th Street And Broadway Now Cross (1879)
Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
I did a quick Google search to see what Broadway and 84th Street looked like now and was taken to Edgar Allan Poe Street, so I believe you!
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Kika González 3 years ago
Once? As in moved from where it was in this picture to there and now gone?
#32
Unusual Portrait Of A Victorian Lady
GoddessOfChaos 3 years ago
I’m not sure if that’s a corset or Victorian photoshop ( which was technically a thing)
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Susann Taphophile 3 years ago (edited)
Not any victorian lady. If I remember correctly it's the grandduchess of Hesse.
aaaggg hhh 3 years ago
That looks like they cut the woman out of one photo and placed it into another photo.
Catherine Brady 3 years ago
I can't imagine how her internal organs functioned in the pressure of that corsette. Women actually deformed ribcage from those. No wonder they ate small portions and didn't do sports. Their stomachs were compressed and so were their lungs. This also contributed to fainting.
#33
Samurai Warriors Taken Between 1860 And 1880
Teralyn Coffee 3 years ago
The one on the far right looks young and cocky.
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Allison Staley 3 years ago
I tried using Google Translate but the picture is very blurry when you zoom into the plaques. I just couldn't get it to read, nevermind translate.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
I understand most samurai weren't really warriors so much by that point - it's not like they would do a lot of battle. They were basically landed nobility but being deprecated.
Jill Chambers 3 years ago
I don't know how many owned land, I think lots became destitute when society changed and they were no longer warriors.
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#34
Unusual Portrait Of A Victorian Lady
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Her mother always said her face would freeze like that one day, but did she believe her? Eventually she did.
Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago
It may have been her first photograph, the cameras were rather shocking
#35
Berlin Zoo Handler Gives Roland, A 4,000 Pound Elephant Seal, A Snow Bath, 1930s
Friedlander Rosenzweig 3 years ago
Do a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life (they said). Looks like love!
Monica Leigh 3 years ago
Male elephant seals are kind of terrifying. This dude is braver than me.
#36
Grandma Patching The Only Pants Of Her Grandson, 1907
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
Clothes weren’t easily replaced back then, it wasn’t uncommon on battlefields to have people take buttons and parts of garments for re use. If you were super lucky like my family, you could be beyond poor and still be dressed well if you worked as a seamstress, the dresses my g.grandmother made to make her kids pretty was amazing, she worked with leftover scraps from rich people dresses she made via commission. That one pair of pants was obviously an irreplaceable item in that household, as was the case in most households without a lot of money.
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Gon Freecss 3 years ago
it did say it was his only pair and they probably didn't want hime running around naked!
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
They may not be his only pair of pants, but they were obviously his play pants. It’s possible this was during an outing, where Grandma brought her sewing to keep occupied while the kids played, so had needle and thread handy for this emergency.
#37
In 1839, Robert Cornelius Took The World's First Selfie
Chandra Torres 3 years ago
I was JUST thinking, what a distinguished gentleman he looks like.... Distinguished and very cute!!
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I have the same hair and always thought it was a curse... For the first time in my life I think it's reasonably cool... Should I try to combine with sideburns, maybe?
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Definitely, and see if you can find a replica of that outfit!
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Darcy Marie 3 years ago
This is not true. Paris Hilton said she and Britney Spears took the first selfie in 2006! (Before anyone comes for me I'm totally just joking.)
Colin Mar 3 years ago
Agreed, a very nice portrait but a selfie is taken by the subject
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#38
Bavarian Boy Enjoying His Camera, 1910
Daniel da Silva 3 years ago (edited)
This is not in 1910. This a tiny German camera from the 1930s especially made for children. The brand was called SIDA, I think.
Michele Steele 3 years ago
I'll bet that was one expensive camera but he treated it like his most cherished possession
MauKini 3 years ago
Me too, that's why I live there! Greetings from Munich. <3
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#39
Three Old School Archers In Japan, 1860s
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Before the invention of the compound bow in the 1960s, the only way to get more power was to have a longer bow.
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Tweed Jefferson 3 years ago
Kyudo bows are abnormally large. You'll notice they're shooting from 2/3 down the bow, not center as we are used to seeing. This is so they could also use them on horseback.
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MAKtheknife 3 years ago
I'm sure they must have worked fine, but I would have fallen off those sandals that the guy on the left is standing upon. Not to mention my sprained ankle.
#40
A Soldier Coming Home From War, 1940s
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
This is the picture that should be more famous. Not that non-consensual kiss :/
Rosie Hamilton 3 years ago
I suspect the reason it isn't is because the very happy lady is a German lady. With sentiment being how it was at the time... Shame though, it's a lovely photo.
Load More Replies... Michele Steele 3 years ago
Ya think they're ecstatic to see each other? I'm getting the love is in the air vibe here
Psychopathic Shark 3 years ago
She gave birth to some clothes. Someone should have told the grandmother stitching her grandsons shorts there is an easier way!
#41
So Young & So Happy, 1920s
Auntriarch 3 years ago
I love this picture. And I'm not even going to speculate about where her other hand is
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
They look so young, and had their whole lives ahead of them. Whether they stayed together and got married or not, I hope their lives were happy and fulfilling.
Melissa Powell 3 years ago
My parents married in 1928 and much got worse and my family did not do well until the 40s. War helped many people out of poverty and that is a really sad thing to say.
Worth Gurkin 3 years ago
Just a year earlier millions were dying in the trenches of France and from the flu pandemic.
#42
Two Ladies And A Local Man Watching The Sunset, 1925
Thomas E S Thomas 3 years ago
Yep. Until the reformation of the Egyptian government in the 1970s and 80s, people could do whatever they wanted.
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Not shown: dozens of fellahin lined up the side of the pyramid, hoisting tourists up and down for their livelihoods.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
In that time period, I could imagine this being the Countess of Carnarvon or someone...
#43
An Angry Kangaroo Is Seen Knocking Out A Woman For Trying To Photograph Him, 1960's
Kayla J 3 years ago
That's John Drysdale, it's from a collection https://vintagenewsdaily.com/boxing-kangaroo-hitting-a-paparazzi-for-trying-to-photograph-him/
Kelley Shy 3 years ago
I went to the link you listed. It was interesting to see that the kangaroo appeared to be comforting/apologizing for the blow. Thanks for posting a functional link. A lot of times the links in the comments don't work or take you to a completely different subject matter all together
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Chris M 3 years ago (edited)
Roos will mess you up. Watch out for emus as well. And then there are the goliath bird-eating spiders, which... actually, just stay inside.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Having seen a photo of the foot of a kangaroo on BP yesterday, that looks like a dangerous encounter.
kcanded 3 years ago
They are pretty badass. Never screw around with them.
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John Smith 3 years ago
That’s horrible because that’s a very expensive medium format camera!……oh but the woman too! — horrible!
#44
Queen Elizabeth And Prince Philip Share A Laugh While Watching A Rope Acrobat, 1963
Angela B 3 years ago
Regardless of what anyone thinks of the Monarchy, I admire anyone who is married for as long as they.
AJJ 3 years ago
My grandparents celebrated their 79th anniversary last December. They'll turn 100 and 99 this summer and hopefully see anniversary #80 this December!
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Whatever else there is about these two, they really seem to have been in love, there's a lot of pictures like this and you can't fake those smiles.
Post Indie rock 3 years ago
Ya, rip until he is reincarnated as a virus PER HIS WISHES.
Load More Replies... Michele Steele 3 years ago
She's was a beauty and still is. This photo totally shows her human side
Kayla Belsches 3 years ago
He was a a CREEP!! There shouldn't even be a Royal Family anymore 🙄.
#45
The Last Known Photo Of The Titanic Afloat. April 12, 1912
Kayla J 3 years ago (edited)
This is from Francis Browne's collection but Snopes has done a detailed explanation on what they consider to be the final photograph of the Titanic if you want to see the one experts believe it is https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/final-photograph-titanic/ And Time Magazine about Browne and other photos of inside the Titanic which have been used as references https://time.com/3787439/titanic/
TJ Farrell 3 years ago
I think i seen an article that was about recovered pictures of when the titanic was sinking. From the sound of it they would have been interesting but disturbing.
Jen Lauren 3 years ago
So sad to see such an unfortunate tragic event being pushed into a love romantic way that so many girls obsess with. As well as a cocky captain saying "even God himself couldn't sink this ship".
Michele Steele 3 years ago
Regardless of whether this is indeed the last photo its so so sad and heartbreaking especially the way they treated third class passengers. BTW thanks you for the links will check them out
B. J. Moore 2 years ago
Snopes? Yeah right! That great bastion of “ almost correct information and great lies”!
#46
Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Man In History (8 Ft 11 In)
Turt_Le 3 years ago
I think the one wearing shorts, this shot was taken before his growth spurt
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Jef Bateman 3 years ago
My grandfather met him when he visited his machine shop. He wanted to be a lawyer, but supposedly was interested in machines, too. They made special shoes for him, but it was very painful for him to walk. He feet and calves were bruised and callused from the shoes and braces. He never could work outside of being a "freak" in the circus because of the pain of getting around.
Red Riding Hood 3 years ago
Yeah I can't imagine life being that enjoyable for too long. He probably spent most of his life, sitting or lieing down! To think of all that weight on his knees and feet, the pain he probably felt just getting around a typical household, of ducking his head and body to fit into a room. Imagine this guy trying to use the bathroom. Kinda sad, really. But amazing! Giants do roam the Earth
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Karin Gibson 3 years ago
Poor guy. Very sad. He died so young. Gigantism is caused by the pituitary gland producing too much growth hormone and then not stopping the production. Their bones and joints were abnormal this also caused very severe stress to the body and they all died young just like the guy who played Jaws in James Bond movies.
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
A doctor constantly hounded him, threatening to boil him to get his skeleton. NB, he did.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
From what I've read, he was still growing with no end in sight. His pituitary gland was out of control.
#47
Davide Chislagi Testing His Single-Wheel Engine, 1933
Desirée Zuidhof 3 years ago
And in Men in Black 3 where Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith riding kinda like this one wheelie
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#48
King George VI Of England Enjoying A Slide, 1925
Turt_Le 3 years ago
It's not quite the hands in the air screaming on a rollercoaster vibe you'd expect from someone enjoying themselves. I'd say tolerated being photographed going down a slide would be more apt.
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Angry And Small 3 years ago
The reason he didn't smile much is because he was a super nervous person. The king had multiple health issues and had a really bad stammer,. Look up footage of him mite explain to some people his lack of a smile
Shalini Pabreja 3 years ago (edited)
Brave & noble, towards his duties and his family. Not a big fan of the Royals but I believe he persisted and stepped up, inspite of his health issues.
Load More Replies... Wilf 3 years ago
He wasn't King George VI when that photograph was taken, nor was he even expected to become King George the VI because his older brother was the heir.
King Kashue 3 years ago
Luckily for Bertie, his brother had the audacity to love a divorcee...and also was a Nazi sympathizer. The former is what was actually got him off the throne though.
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Seán Baron 3 years ago
Yes. Although at the time this picture was taken, he was in fact the Duke of York.
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#49
Bonnie Parker And Clyde Barrow In Arkansas, 1933
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
They've been glamorized by Hollywood and legend but they were murderous criminals who don't deserve their fame or our admiration.
Taylor Carroll 3 years ago
Neither do the fricking Kardashians but here we are
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Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
They were products of their time . . . The Depression, poverty, lack of education, lack of opportunities. They weren't the only ones, these two are the ones you can name. Nothing excuses murder. Even a bad example serves a purpose -- don't be like that, you won't end up like that.
David Brown 3 years ago
Ya never really know what's going on behind closed doors until they're opened. These two were nuttier than a squirrel turd.
Richard Graham 3 years ago
In the background - a 1932 Ford V8, their preferred car to steal. The Ford V8 was the fastest production car of its time.
#50
Paul Newman Boating In Venice, Italy During A 1963 Film Festival
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I watched one of his last movies, in which he played a doddering old geezer who was mostly confined to a wheelchair. The film had plenty of handsome younger male actors, and he was still the sexiest man in the movie. By quite a large margin.
Libby Tailor 3 years ago
He was so handsome when young, and wa so hadsome when older, and was when old. Also was a gentleman. (His camp for seriously ill children ♥️)
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#51
When Even Ice Skating Was Done In A Suit, 1937
Vic 3 years ago
Totally agree!! Just the other day, I was trying to get some exercise in my best suit, and people started giving me funny looks!! The swimming pool manager even asked me to get out of the pool..
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LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
I think people are just tired of them blowing off their heads and having to hold them down with painful to wear hat pins.
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#52
Montreal Playgrounds Were On Another Level Back Then, 1950s
Suzy the observer 3 years ago
Parc Lafontaine. The game is Ladder-Seesaw. One child brings the other up while going down and repeats until it goes so high and fasts that one kid screams for mercy. LOL!
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Now this is a proper playground-- fun yet mildly terrifying.
Suzy the observer 3 years ago
http://histoireplateau.canalblog.com/archives/2017/05/12/35278725.html The hood I live in and games I played as a child. 12bd0368df...5c45bf.jpg 
Zol 3 years ago
hanging on tight ! ... thats what she's doing ... hanging on for dear life
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albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
You haven't lived as a child if you haven't had the wind knocked out of you, scraped a knee, needed a few stitches, or broken a bone at some point. Yes it sucks, but I believe the long term harm done by trying to make play 100% safe, is worse.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I agree, although at 32 I have somehow avoided breaking a bone so far :) There is a big movement in the education field to get more 'risky play' back in childcare and education settings. This includes bush kinders where they let children climb trees (after giving some instructions like not standing on branches thinner than your arm) and explore nature within teacher's eyelines etc.
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 3 years ago
We had the normal seesaws like in the back of the photo. And, yes, the thrill was allowing it to drop hard in an attempt to unseat your partner.
#53
Jacques Biederer, Erotic Photography Pioneer, Hard At Work In Paris, 1928
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
From the Facebook page. Bored Panda didn't come up with it.
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Zwiebel Suppe 3 years ago
"Bieder" means something like "prude" in German. That makes it a little more funny :)
#54
A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it's gone right to my head!
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
It looks like a scene straight out of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Reminds me of the observation that some people use statistics the way drunks use lampposts - for support rather than illumination
TheEndIsNigh 3 years ago
According to the last post, he's still "Classy" cuz he's wearing a suit 😆
#55
Margaret Bourke-White Working Atop Chrysler Building, New York City, 1934
#56
A Berlin Boy Sells Lemonade Using A Portable Lemonade Dispenser, 1931
Saint Thomas 3 years ago
Although i'm guessing it was his job, not some sidewalk activity to get some pocket money.
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Martin Kaine 3 years ago
I shudder to think where the 3 boys will be 10 years from when this picture was taken.
#57
An Empire State Builder Hanging On A Crane Above New York City, 1930
Turt_Le 3 years ago
Considering the complete absence of any safety measures I completely agree
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The Empire State Building opened around the time of the 1929 stock crash, it took 25 years for it to become profitable.
#58
Woman With Kodak Camera, C1900
#59
A Young Artist Paints Sacré-Coeur, Paris, 1946
#60
The Night They Ended Prohibition
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
Martin Kaine 3 years ago
Gone bowling. If I don't come back, avenge my death.
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The Eiffel Tower, 1965
#62
Photograper Thomas Kelley At Work, 1932
Inga Paškevičiūtė 3 years ago
Wasn't he the one who took that famous picture of workers having lunch on a steel beam?
Candia Lee 3 years ago
This does remind us that *someone* was up there taking those photos.
Load More Replies... Caro Caro 3 years ago
I just had a tingle in my calves looking at this photo.
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Grivzyrn Novarn 3 years ago
For those who are interested, here is the story of how the lunch photo came to be. I actually just wanted to know who took this photo here, but found a nice summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCYDzsQ_yM
#63
Painters Atop The Woolworth Building In New York City, 1926
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
I'm not afraid of heights and did some climbing work myself, but DAAAAAJJJJUUUUMMMM.
Ashley Bonner 3 years ago
My brain would be like "fall, just let go"....and this is why I can't do heights.
#64
An American Pioneer Family By Their Little Sod Roof House On The Prairie, 1870
Veronica Vatter 3 years ago
That's why their are so many Amish summer birthdays 😬
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Erla Zwingle 3 years ago
I think the entire house was sod. Wood not so abundant on the prairie.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Little house on the prairie? Can you hear the tune? dada dadaa dadaaaaa :D
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Alonzo "Manly" Wilder, Laura's husband, is a cousin of mine, through my great-grandmother's family. She was a Wilder who married a Corn.
Load More Replies... Steve Kenney 3 years ago
That's 5 kids so far, there are more winters to come.
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When People Scrapped Metals To Help The War Effort, 1942
#66
The Famous Canals In Venice Being Drained And Cleaned, 1956
#67
Addie Card, Spinner In North Pownal Cotton Mill, 1910
Seabeast 3 years ago
It was probably a short life. The mills had lots of fluff floating in the air and people inhaled it all day long.
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Stewart Moore 3 years ago
Also worth noting she didn't wear shoes; if it's the same reason as in the north of England mills, it's so they could pick up the cotton with their toes
Beck 3 years ago
They likes using young kids in factories because their little hands could reach into the machines easily.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Poor little, Addie. So many immigrant families had to turn to sending their children to work in dangerous jobs like the mills or mining due to extreme poverty. Many would die young due to the dangerous conditions.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
She likely is. It was an abysmal job with terrible conditions, long hours, and little pay. She probably lived in constant fear of getting sick or injured.
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Stymied Egan 3 years ago
I met a man that told us when he was young he worked in mills like this in NY. They used kids because the could fit into the machines and clean out clogs of dust etc. He said they didn't turn the machines off, even while the kid were in them. He had several friends die. He was missing most of a finger. It was not a happy life it, was a hope to survive life.
#68
A Couple Taking An Early Morning Stroll On Board Of Titanic, 1912
Wilf 3 years ago
Generally agreed that this is Richard Smith and Emily Nicholls, they were family friends travelling individually. Emily left the ship at Queenstown, but Richard was travelling on to New York and died in the sinking.
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Wilf 3 years ago
It was one of a series taken by an amateur photographer, Father Francis Browne. He sailed on Titanic as far as Cobh (then known as Queenstown) in Ireland, where he (along with 7 others) disembarked. It was a very slow way of getting to Ireland, but more comfortable than using a ferry service and probably of some novelty to travel on the largest moving object ever built.
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Taken In 1924, Some Friends Enjoy Riding In This New Car, Which Could Travel At Mammoth Speeds Of Up To 25mph
M O'Connell 3 years ago
This car was absolutely NOT new in 1924. It is a 1911-1913(ish) International Harvester "Auto Wagon"
#70
Social Networking, 1860s
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Oh my goodness! It's the March sisters from Little Women with Laurie and Mr. Laurence.
Jill Tremblay 3 years ago (edited)
I don't mean to be snotty or anything, but what did they do all day long? We are so busy it seems even with our plethora of inventions to make life easier, I can't imagine a life like this.
#71
Tango! Barcelona, Spain, 1951
#72
Forge Workers Beside Part Of The Titanic's Anchor Chain
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
That little kid on the left. Must be 9 or 10...and an apprentice by that point.
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
These guys were thinking at the time, "Sure, we built the dang thing but can't even afford a ride on it",,, then some months later "THANK GOD!!!!"
#73
A Stylish Stroll, 1934
Rachknits 3 years ago
That's the year my Dad was born and he's still with us today; he's witnessed such incredible changes in his lifetime
Stymied Egan 3 years ago
My parents were born in the 20's. My dad would tell us stories about catching the back of horse drawn ice truck while roller skating. He and his buddies would try to steal some chips of ice on the hot days. The ice man was delivering big blocks of ice to the lucky families with ice boxes in their homes.
Load More Replies... Grivzyrn Novarn 3 years ago
I hope by this age we have better stories to tell than "Remember the toilet paper crisis? Or the face caterpillars and rubber lips?" Wars and EveryLifeMatters play out in the foreground, but as photo evidence, we sadly have almost nothing but a few million Kardashian clones. I really hope that it's not that that lasts, but events and their evidence.
#74
Milkman Dropping Off And Picking Up Milk, 1939
Nathaniel 3 years ago
I would say he is wanting to drop off more than milk and is trying his best pick something up other than empties.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
First thing my uncles told my mom when they saw me, "she has to be the milkman's." My siblings were redheads with green eyes and freckles. I was blonde and blue-eyed, just like the milkman.
Dirtier Harrier 3 years ago
Yeah, you can tell what they're thinking, esp. how they handle the bottle :-D
#75
A Group Of Montana Men Advertising For Wives, 1901
#76
A Policeman In London Directing Three Giraffe-Necked Women From Burma, 1935
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
Their necks aren't stretched upward; it's their shoulders forced downward.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Dunno why you got voted down, you were on minus 1. I evened it up. You are correct.
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Andrew Bridges 3 years ago (edited)
I hate to be "that" but pedantic person on BP but, they are from Northern Thailand. They are called the Kayan people.
Lorna Anne Skinner Emmons 3 years ago
It was in Riple's Believe it or not. They add a bracelet like thing around their necks every year. Without the bracelets they would die. It stretches out the links in the vertebrae in the spine
Turt_Le 3 years ago
The difference being Stephanie has enlightened us about a common misconception, pushing down versus stretching up means different parts are moving. The lengthened neck is an illusion caused by the compressed clavicle and rib cage. I assume this would also cause different physical discomfort than you might imagine if you had thought it was the neck being stretched
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#77
Henry Ford Drives His First Automobile, 1896
Vic 3 years ago
If you look closely, you can see 2 guys chasing him to talk about renewing his auto insurance..
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#78
Fred Howe, The Fatman And George Moore, The Livingskeleton, 1890
Vic 3 years ago
The one with the gloves is George, the one with the other gloves is Fred..
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#79
The Winning Scene At The Finish Of The First Tour De France, 1903
Lars Bouw 3 years ago
Back then their bidons were filled with alcohol and they took every drug that would help finish the race
Load More Replies... HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
The roads, for the most part, were not paved, the cyclists had to carry their own spare parts with them, as support vehicles weren't " a thing", medical issues were handled on the fly, by the riders, etc, etc. It was not a fun ride.
#80
Beauty Pageant Winners In 1922
#81
In The Kitchen Of A Montana Farmhouse, Ca. 1900
Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
When most of us do washing now, we just open a machine's door to wash it and put it another machine to dry it. It must have been such hard work then, to scrub a heavily stained item and then try to dry it, especially during the colder months.
Emmydearest 3 years ago
As I always say: the first invention that led to women's liberation was the pill. The second one: the washing machine.
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Historyharlot93 3 years ago
Her face says “ Put that damn camera away and get in here to help me wash”
Daniel Fincher 3 years ago
Husband playing with new camera toy while the chores continue needing done...
#82
A Rare Look Inside Of A Barbershop, 1869
BrookeBT 3 years ago
I had to look closely. I thought the dog was a towel. Chill dog!
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Children Car Seats From The 1940s
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
It looks like the WORST possible safety design ever!!
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Cynthia Carter 3 years ago
I wasn’t allowed in the front seat at all until I grew to my mother's height of 5 feet. After that I was up front and had to manually open and close the garage door.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
By that rule my mum shouldn't be in the front seat :) (Actually I do have my doubts about whether she is tall enough to drive but she does nonetheless)
Load More Replies... Stymied Egan 3 years ago
It's just a car seat, not a safety seat. They wanted the kids to be able to see outside too. Of course this is one of the reasons kids had to sit in the back and eventually car seats were built.
#84
The Manliest Way To Shave Your Beard Back In 1940
T. 3 years ago
The blade of an axe is one of the sharpest in the world. Steel can be sharpened to a degree allowed by it’s molecular structure. So about as sharp as a commercial razor blade.
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Courting In The 1800s Never Looked Better
Na Schi 3 years ago
Somehow I detest this picture. Although I know that it's staged and reassemble the time... the man look like a slimy eel and the bending-away from him pose the woman took reminds me of to many time nowadays manfolk still trying such a move on you. (When you've assumed you were in a simple, enjoyable conversation).
TheEndIsNigh 3 years ago
"Oh Darla...Darla, run away with me and let's get married" "Oh Rupert, I don't think we should!"
#86
British Tourists In Front Of The Great Sphinx, 1910
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Tourist had to go to Egypt to see the pyramids because they were too heavy to be transported to the British Museum. True story.
#87
An Unidentified Woman Taking A Selfie, Circa 1900
Jody Whitmarsh 3 years ago
Looking at the pictures on her shelf, I'm wondering if the date is correct. Some of those look pretty modern
Ruth Kilpatrick 3 years ago
According to what I've found on Google, it appears to be dated correctly.
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Lumberjacks Standing By A Sequioa Log In California, 1910
Rachknits 3 years ago
Wow! Imagine the effort to saw down a tree that size without modern power tools. Sadly though, I don't think trees that size are plentiful these days
Shalini Pabreja 3 years ago
Sad! Each one of these giants is precious and beautiful, almost like a shrine.
Rachel Smith 3 years ago
That tree was probably hundreds of not thousands of years old when they cut it down. It's a shame, if only it wasn't human tendency to destroy nature around them
Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
On the west coast, a lot of the older houses are built with these old growth trees. Even 100 years later, the wood is so strong that it’s very difficult to hammer a nail into it. Even the gutters on the outside of the house were wood and most of them were still fine because the wood was so hard.
#89
A Titanic Survivor Gives A Woman An Autograph
#90
Today We Remember Those Who Lost Their Lives In The Titanic Disaster On April 15th Of 1912
T h e r e s a 3 years ago
Sha babies. My heart hurts when I think about the little ones on that ship who died in terror.
Shelli LotusFlower 3 years ago (edited)
These little ones did not die on Titanic, but their story still tragic. Their father had absconded with them to flee to the US, unbeknownst to their mother. They were unknown until finally they found their mother and returned home. Father died at sea. https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/04/18/150799600/louis-and-lump-tiny-tots-saved-at-sea
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
Because BoredPanda editors put zero thought into their headlines.
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Tuesday Next 3 years ago
Those two boys survived though... their father had kidnapped them away from their mother and was escaping with them overseas on the Titanic, but he died when the ship sank, so it took a while to find any of their relatives
#91
Thomas Edison And An Electric Car In 1913
Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
And here we are in 2022, bringing back the electric car.. History has a strange way of repeating itself...
Dave van Es 3 years ago
History teaches us, we don't learn from history (Desmond Tutu)
Load More Replies... Shalini Pabreja 3 years ago
So what happened? How did we get from there to gas’s guzzling monsters of today?
Dave P 3 years ago
The battery alone in Edison's car cost the same as 3 Model T's. Only the very rich could afford it. Further it took a long time to charge
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New Fords Delivered By Train In The 40's
#93
A Rare Look Inside The Original Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Factory, 1924
#94
Hot Dog Stand In North End, Boston, 1937
#95
Drunken Women Fighting On A Rooftop. London, 1902
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
"I did NOT steal your stupid snuff box, you disreputable slag! It was your scumbag opium dealer of a boyfriend!|
Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
Now they just do it outside nightclubs and bars.. I guess somethings (apart from the location), will never change.
#96
Say That Again And I'll Dip You In, 1897
#97
Steelworker Touching The Tip Of The Chrysler Building During The Construction Of The Empire State Building, 1931
#98
Harry Houdini, 1926
Na Schi 3 years ago
Dude has also something hidden at his hip... or some serious, square muscle pack there.
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#99
A Coca Cola Company Delivery Truck In 1909
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
My bucket list is to try the original recipe. I doubt it would ever happen but it would be awesome!
#100
Children Boxing In Kent, England Gypsy Camp, 1951
#101
Reckless Kids Having Fun!
troufaki13 3 years ago
I used to do that when I was a kid!! Jump when the swing was at its highest point!
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
Hell yeah we did. Try it today and I would probably break a bone or twenty.
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Thomas Edison Poses With His First Electric Car, 1895
Dave P 3 years ago
He has a 15 man team work on it. Early ones got 40 miles to the charge, his final model got 100 miles to the charge. But they took a long to charge (about 2 days). Edison thought electric cars were the future because they had cleaner air than combustion. But when the battery costs as much as 3 gas powered cars and takes 48 hours to charge, it wasnt catching on at the time. Interestingly Tesla did not think electric was practical for cars, while Edison was the one pushing it.
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
Meanwhile, over 100 years later... turns out Edison was actually kind of right.
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K 3 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I love historic photographs but not providing the source, not only robs credit from the photographers but it also robs the institutions that hold them money. Not only that 99% of these are copyrighted and therefore this is stealing if you don't cite your source.
Dippin Dot 3 years ago
BP always has a tiny link to their sources underneath the photo (lower left corner). This one links to THEIR source… a Facebook group. So feel free to let their moderators know.
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Csaba Horvath 3 years ago
Great collection, but many of them should have their stories mentioned also, because it adds many to the photo.
Diana Susan Burdian 2 years ago
The photo of the woman taking frozen long johns off the clothes line is my mother!! Her brother, my uncle, was a commercial photographer and used family members as models. To make the clothes look frozen they soaked them in water and froze them in a big freezer in the basement! As a kid I was in many of his advertisement photos so I love old pictures and much to my surprise and delight came across this photo of my mom while browsing on Bored Panda!!!
Steffi Rose 3 years ago
Yes, but not by that one guy the other day who “mastered” it LOL
Load More Replies... K 3 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I love historic photographs but not providing the source, not only robs credit from the photographers but it also robs the institutions that hold them money. Not only that 99% of these are copyrighted and therefore this is stealing if you don't cite your source.
Dippin Dot 3 years ago
BP always has a tiny link to their sources underneath the photo (lower left corner). This one links to THEIR source… a Facebook group. So feel free to let their moderators know.
Load More Replies... Csaba Horvath 3 years ago
Great collection, but many of them should have their stories mentioned also, because it adds many to the photo.
Diana Susan Burdian 2 years ago
The photo of the woman taking frozen long johns off the clothes line is my mother!! Her brother, my uncle, was a commercial photographer and used family members as models. To make the clothes look frozen they soaked them in water and froze them in a big freezer in the basement! As a kid I was in many of his advertisement photos so I love old pictures and much to my surprise and delight came across this photo of my mom while browsing on Bored Panda!!!
Steffi Rose 3 years ago
Yes, but not by that one guy the other day who “mastered” it LOL
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