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The easiest way for us to get a glimpse into the good old days is to open up our family's photo album. But what if we go through the images and instead of calming down our curiosity, they only fuel it? Easy. We open up the subreddit r/TheWayWeWere next.

It's a place where folks share pictures from 50, 100, and even more years ago to show what everyday life looked like in the past. Featuring old photos, scanned documents, articles, and personal anecdotes, this subreddit has become one of the biggest vintage archives online.

Continue scrolling and check out why 528K people subscribe to r/TheWayWeWere.

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Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority (1974)

Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority (1974)

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My Ridiculously Attractive Grandparents Sitting For A Portrait In The Early 1940s

My Ridiculously Attractive Grandparents Sitting For A Portrait In The Early 1940s

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The last 100 years have produced profound changes in human history.

Wars, technological developments, progress in civil rights, and breakthroughs in science and medicine, the old world has been swept away. Whether it's for better or worse.

Centuries-old empires crumbled as new ideologies – like communism and fascism – took over in many parts of the world. Wars in the early part of the 20th century put an end to the colonial world and gave birth to new nations. However, these wars also cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars.

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My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951

My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow that gown is gorgeous! The person's mom looks amazing in it, and so happy.

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Cats Blackie & Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher's Dairy Farm In Fresno, California, 1954

Cats Blackie & Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher's Dairy Farm In Fresno, California, 1954

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Throughout the past century, technological innovations have transformed our lives in ways we never dreamed of. Progressive ideas emerged and changed the world as women, African Americans, and the LGBTQ community demanded, and often won, equal rights; from the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the United States to the legalization of same-sex marriage in many countries. But recent civil rights conflicts tell us the fight for equality is not over.

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A Native American Girl Of The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894

A Native American Girl Of The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894

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My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s

My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s

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The pandemic that began ravaging the world in 2020 reminds us that even though we can buy a ticket to go to space, we're still vulnerable to viruses that can shut down economies and disrupt society.

People are hoping science can save Earth from the devastating changes to the climate that continue to imperil the ecosystems of our planet. In the coming years, natural disasters may have an increasingly impactful role in the course of history. Who knows where we will end up in another 100.

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Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940

Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Story Time! My stepdad's mother, who is around 97ish right now, she's also from New York. She told me how she started wearing jeans as soon as she could, she loved them. She answered the door for her first date with some guy wearing jeans. He said he'd wait while she went to change, she said change what? He said you're not going out with me looking like that, so she told him, you're right, I'm not going out with you and shut the door on him. That was a huge deal back then, and I can see her doing something like this, she could actually be in this picture for all I know.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hooray for your grandma. Apparently dad liked his spouse in jeans. Two early-20th-century pioneers, woohoo! Wonder if they marched for feminism...social, economic, legal & political equality. Sartorial =ity, too.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First one in facing the camera directly with the vest -- she looks like she is the COOLEST person on the planet and I 100% want to now what her life was like

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me 2 My first thought was she's hard-core I wish there was a way 2 find out about her life

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Yvonda Marie Levings
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These young women were true trend setters They each already have their own style and they look so beautiful

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Uncommon Boston
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't wear pants to school until I was in 6th grade. Only dress pants. It relaxed over time but i don't remember wearing jeans.

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Laura MG
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My backwards high School in Michigan didn't allow girls to wear slacks till 1973

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Miss Cris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sad that 80 years after we must still keeping doing the same.

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mamafrog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't wear pants to school until 1970! I think the dirty old men wanted us all to wear mini skirts or hot pants for ever.

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Gillian Mackenzie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Scotland and we weren't allowed to wear trousers to school in the 80's/early 90's. Not much fun in the snow or stormy winters

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my first job after college I worked in a hotel where women were not allowed to wear pants at all. (Unless they worked at the pool or golf course) I had to wear a skirt and pantyhose every single day - even though I worked in the administrative area and no guest ever saw me. And this was 1997/1998, not the 60's!! It was ridiculous and completely sexist.

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yellowphantom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a very effective protest. We still couldn't wear pants in the 70's.

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Becky B B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just look at the expression on the man in the far right back of the photo. When I was in high school we got sent home for wearing culottes! Why? Come on think about it. Men couldn't look up your skirt anymore. Oh well...

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Norma Nelson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a school with dress code assistant principal used to go around and run the girls upper legs to make sure they were not wearing denim jeans after the dress code was changed so we could wear dress slacks only told him if he touched me he'd take back a stump he sent me to his office but I went to our superintendent office instead and told him what was going on it stopped an we could wear what we wanted (the assistant was fired)was in Iowa in 1969

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Girl f**king power! And kudos to the boys who supported them!

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Donald Holder
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dress codes for public schools are soooo stupid. Still fighting them today.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine: girls couldn't wear slacks in 1st grade...or even high school 'til the 1970s in the U.S. We like to bend over, climb hills/stairs/ladders just like the guys. Why do so many female TV newscasters [incld'g awful a.m. shows] still wear silly dresses/skirts? Women need to spread their legs just like guys do~~& they have junk that sticks together [they should be wearing skirts!]. HELP!

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Vicki Perizzolo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

took until 1968 or so to get rid of that one.. i hate wearing skirts!

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Otter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At my grade school in the 1960s, girls STILL weren't allowed to wear pants!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

scandalous in the 1940s, also male entertainers who danced on stage like Elvis, considered lewd dancing & therefore sinful back then

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SOOOO Cool! Standing up for their rights, had to be Lil scary for them, Leigh from DE

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to private school in the 80s, and slacks still weren't allowed until you got into 8th grade for some reason. I had to run and play in a dress.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

.... that's because it was considered a sin to wear that "which pertains to a man".

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Tom Markham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my '50s high school slacks were banned because they made it easier for girls to carry weapons. Manual High, Denver.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I LOVE this!! Thx girls for the hardwork and rocking pants while doing it. 🙏

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Kaitlyn Berry
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now girls will have to protest to wear dresses at a Texas school. How things change, and yet remain exactly the same.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gosh, we weren't allowed to wear slacks even in 1971 when I graduated high school. And you had better wear socks or nylons with your shoes or you would get called out on it.

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Priscilla Wilson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's funny that women couldn't wear pants when men are the ones with genitalia that show.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband and I were in London in 1969 and went into Simpson's restaurant where I was told - in 1969 - I could not enter "wearing trousers" - fortunately I was wearing a thigh length tunic over my "trousers" and just took the pants off and had a mini-dress. There were perfectly OK with that. 1969, yeah!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women's pants were so unflattering but so glad this generation paved the way for the rest of us.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother was born in 1900 and wore trousers when fishing and camping only. My mother was born in 1924 and wore pants for hunting, fishing, camping, or whenever the day required it. I was born in 1956. They tried to make me wear dresses, but from about age 14 on I primarily wore jeans. You go girls!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing has changed, girls that are pro change are always looking the same way, a little freaky for their time 🤣

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The one in the vest looks a bit like Scarlett Johansson, IMO, or maybe Laura Prepon. The rest could be my Mom and her friends. As for the dress code: I'm from the era of miniskirts and bellbottoms; the wars over boys' hair and girls' legs, ad nauseum. It's hard to believe kids and their parents are still fighting this battle today, but here we are. Mom-and-Da...f506e4.jpg Mom-and-Dad-6266e42f506e4.jpg

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was the '70's when we finally got the 'ok' to wear our bell bottom blue jeans in high school.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a fabulous "Kate Hepburn" style authentic, elegant gabardine slacks stolen from my car. The GD theif obviously had some Style - but No class. I Still want them back!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even in the 1960s women wearing slacks was a BIG thing. I can remember my late mom (who wasn't even alive in 1940) telling me how ca. 1969 her work place finally started allowing women to come in to work wearing slacks/trousers and all the women in the office talking to each other the day before the dress code changes took place demanding that they all wear trousers to work the next day so that no woman would end up the only woman walking into work the next day wearing them. Fast forward to when I was a small child in the mid '80s and I remember my mom owning many pairs of trousers and wearing them to work on a regular basis and my being able to wear jeans to school during non-uniform days in the late '80s - late '90s. The badass feminists of the past made that all possible.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

30billionth verse same as the first a little bit louder & a little bit worse!

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Hope Cows&Chickens
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good trouble! Protesting for equality comes in many forms. So glad pants on women isn't looked down on like this anymore!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I graduated from Hollywood High in 1964 and we were not allowed pants at all. No bare legs - only stockings & garter belts or at minimum 'Peds' (shoe liners). Nowadays short shorts, cutoffs, tank tops, flip flops and hoodies. Things change.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I burst out laughing at the one guy's face in the upper right of this picture. LOL!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My high schools in late 1960’s and early 1970’s also banned slacks for females. One was an all-female school!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is absurd, at least the girls are covered, now they attend school half dressed !!!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These girls had my 1968 High School Grad. class beat. It wasn't until my senior yr. 1968 that my class could wear jeans on Friday. Can you imagine. And the school before that we had to wear Middie outfits that made us look like 13 yr. old sailors. OMG how far we have come

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Julia, Suzanne, Ozacoter, Ben's mom, Laura, Vicki, Kelly, Dee, mamafrog, Deborah, Gillian, Otter, Auntriarch~~'Cuz control-freak male superintendents, principals, teachers didn't want a girl's perineal area to be covered [they liked to peek when girls' knees weren't touching while sitting, or bending over while moving theater-class equipment off stage, or climbing stairs]. Pigs. Gym class was the only 50 mins. during entire school day that girls got to feel at ease, relaxed, enjoyable. During stormy weather/snow, wind lifted skirts. Girls are entitled to be as comfortable as boys in the classroom (& everywhere!). They probably learn more being cozy. How cruel guys are, still thinking they can dominate. Lobotomy, please.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least they didn't hosed or tear gassed or run over by tanks or shot while unarmed..

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's 3 guys~~Are they protesting? Chaperoning? One's grabbing the fence [to get into pic?]. What's w/the chick in front of the trio licking her lips?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now I know who influenced the height of my grandfather’s pants…

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the boys had protested being not allowed to wear skirts I wonder what society today would look like

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved how dressed up they were back then. Men, women, non-binary folk.

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The current trend today is to show the most @$$ without being suspended

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yep..priorities while the European Jews and homosexuals were being rounded up and slaughtered and Eastern Europe invaded and overrun by brutal Nazi led armies

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, because the world can only deal with one problem at a time.

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yep ...priorities while the European Jews were being rounded up and slaughtered

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Oh dear. Edit: I meant oh dear I didn't think this would still be an issue 70 years later

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Gay Men Pose For A Photo While Being Detained At A Police Station For Being Homosexuals In Mexico, 1935

Gay Men Pose For A Photo While Being Detained At A Police Station For Being Homosexuals In Mexico, 1935

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1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn't Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday

1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn't Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aaaaaw. Sweet homecoming. POW Singapore must have been a nightmare. Changi was brutal.

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Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s

Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s

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London's First Black Police Officer, PC Norwell Roberts, On Point Duty Near Charing Cross Station, 1968

London's First Black Police Officer, PC Norwell Roberts, On Point Duty Near Charing Cross Station, 1968

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's definitely on point duty. That's a fantastic point he's got there.

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This 1955 Photo Is One Of Walter Chandoha’s Most Famous Shots. “My Daughter Paula And The Kitten Both ‘Smiled’ For The Camera At The Same Time. …but The Cat’s Not Smiling, He’s Meowing”

This 1955 Photo Is One Of Walter Chandoha’s Most Famous Shots. “My Daughter Paula And The Kitten Both ‘Smiled’ For The Camera At The Same Time. …but The Cat’s Not Smiling, He’s Meowing”

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My Great Grandmother In The Early 1900’s. Thought She Looked Too Awesome Not To Share

My Great Grandmother In The Early 1900’s. Thought She Looked Too Awesome Not To Share

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My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964

My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964

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My Grandpa (Left) And His Best Friend Willie Hall During The Korean War. Those Smiles Say It All

My Grandpa (Left) And His Best Friend Willie Hall During The Korean War. Those Smiles Say It All

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My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, And Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Ca 1918

My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, And Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Ca 1918

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My Great-Grandfather That Was Too Poor To Afford A Suit In Sicily, So He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s~

My Great-Grandfather That Was Too Poor To Afford A Suit In Sicily, So He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s~

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My Grandmother And Mom Circa 1974. My Grandmother Took My Mother To National Parks Over The Course Of A Few Months, Just The Two Of Them

My Grandmother And Mom Circa 1974. My Grandmother Took My Mother To National Parks Over The Course Of A Few Months, Just The Two Of Them

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A Sailor "Meets" His Baby For The First Time After Fourteen Months At Sea, 1940s

A Sailor "Meets" His Baby For The First Time After Fourteen Months At Sea, 1940s

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, some parenting lessons may be needed. Day One: How to Hold the Baby.

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Grandma And Papa In 1937. She Passed Away Today At 100 Years Old

Grandma And Papa In 1937. She Passed Away Today At 100 Years Old

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Last Picture Of My Great Uncle Kennith, Before He Drowned In The Buffalo River, 1940’s. He Gave His Life Saving My Grandpa

Last Picture Of My Great Uncle Kennith, Before He Drowned In The Buffalo River, 1940’s. He Gave His Life Saving My Grandpa

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My Mother Made Us Matching Dresses For A Fancy Party Back In 1954

My Mother Made Us Matching Dresses For A Fancy Party Back In 1954

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Saw This Photo Posted Here.. Noticed I Have The Photo The Grandmother Took That Day. (Bought At An Antique Shop Years Ago In Phx)

Saw This Photo Posted Here.. Noticed I Have The Photo The Grandmother Took That Day. (Bought At An Antique Shop Years Ago In Phx)

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A Parisian Woman With Her Cat In Her Cannabis Garden, 1910

A Parisian Woman With Her Cat In Her Cannabis Garden, 1910

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a cat. All I need now is the garden (and some law changes please).

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This Is My Grandma Dorothy. She Was A Dress Designer In The 50s Which Always Made This Photo More Funny To Me. She Passed Away Today At Age 89. A Life Well Lived

This Is My Grandma Dorothy. She Was A Dress Designer In The 50s Which Always Made This Photo More Funny To Me. She Passed Away Today At Age 89. A Life Well Lived

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of her more controversial designs! Needs shoulder straps...

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Vintage Photo From A Family Album, Freeport, Il

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Besides the obvious that he is a black man and she a white woman in the 1900s, when this required a lot of guts, I love the fact he's wearing puttees as part of civilian dress. This was pretty common before WW1. After the war... not so much.

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Me And My Best Friend Rocky Watching TV, 1959

Me And My Best Friend Rocky Watching TV, 1959

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A Mostly Happy Family Outing At Chicken Bone Beach, The Segregated Section Of Atlantic City's Beach Area, New Jersey, 1950s (Photographed By John W. Mosley)

A Mostly Happy Family Outing At Chicken Bone Beach, The Segregated Section Of Atlantic City's Beach Area, New Jersey, 1950s (Photographed By John W. Mosley)

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1976 vs. 2018; 42 Years And We're Still Going Strong

1976 vs. 2018; 42 Years And We're Still Going Strong

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Young Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1909

Young Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1909

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Karl Baxter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crikey - the “thousand yard stare” at that young age. Life must have been tough for these girls.

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Reddit Seems To Love My Taita (Grandma), So Here Is Another One Of Her From 1950’s Beirut

Reddit Seems To Love My Taita (Grandma), So Here Is Another One Of Her From 1950’s Beirut

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The Wedding Rings Of My Ggm, Gggm, Ggggm, And Gggggm Oldest Dating Back To 1832!

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Police Officer Unaware Of The Imminent Danger, Chicago, 1959

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After Spending More Than Five Years In A North Vietnamese Camp, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm Is Reunited With His Family At Travis Afb, March 13, 1973

After Spending More Than Five Years In A North Vietnamese Camp, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm Is Reunited With His Family At Travis Afb, March 13, 1973

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Jo Morris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This photo, called "Burst of Joy" won a Pulitzer prize. It has an unhappy ending though. According to Wikipedia "Despite outward appearances, the reunion was an unhappy one for Stirm. Three days before he arrived in the United States, the same day he was released from captivity, Stirm received a Dear John letter from his wife Loretta informing him that their marriage was over. Stirm later learned that Loretta had been with other men throughout his captivity, receiving marriage proposals from three of them. In 1974, the Stirms divorced and Loretta remarried, but Lieutenant Colonel Stirm was still ordered by the courts to provide her with 43% of his military retirement pay once he retired from the Air Force. Stirm was later promoted to full Colonel and retired from the Air Force in 1977."

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My Grandpa’s Schoolhouse In Texas Ca. 1930’s. He Was Always Embarrassed Of This Picture Because He Was Too Poor To Afford Shoes

My Grandpa’s Schoolhouse In Texas Ca. 1930’s. He Was Always Embarrassed Of This Picture Because He Was Too Poor To Afford Shoes

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad remembered going to school in Ireland in the early 1940s alongside kids with no shoes. Extreme poverty is more recent than you think.

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Women Trainees Of The Lapd Practice Firing Their Newly Issued Revolvers, 1948

Women Trainees Of The Lapd Practice Firing Their Newly Issued Revolvers, 1948

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many woman had a job in WW2 but as soon as hubby came home they were sent back to being a housewife. I guess these women refused or are single.

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Dublin, 1962

Dublin, 1962

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Offerings To The Unknown Dead, Kyoto, Japan, 1963

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The 70s Transition: My Parents In 1968 And Again In 1970

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My American Grandmother Visiting Athens In The 1960s

My American Grandmother Visiting Athens In The 1960s

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such style in a lot of these pictures! Too bad nobody really dares to wear anymore

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Listening To The Radio On The Beach, Circa 1940s

Listening To The Radio On The Beach, Circa 1940s

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The Rolled-Stockings Trend Of The 1920's Brought On A Fad Of Hand-Painted Knees

The Rolled-Stockings Trend Of The 1920's Brought On A Fad Of Hand-Painted Knees

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Class Divide In Britain, 1930's

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Me Ready For Friday Night Lights, 1969

Me Ready For Friday Night Lights, 1969

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