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50 Interesting Photos From The Past That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared On “Vintage Daily” (New Pics)
There's a finite number of photos from the days gone by, so with so many social media projects dedicated to them, you'd think we would have seen it all by now. Or at least the vast majority. Especially when it comes to celebrities.
As we showed in one of our publications, the Instagram account Vintage Daily keeps unearthing rarely seen pictures from the last century with no problem. In fact, they provide such a steady stream of content that now, only 5 months after our piece, there's enough material for an update.
So that's exactly what we did. Continue scrolling to check out what the self-proclaimed Lover of The Past who runs the account has been posting on it recently.
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#1
An Indian Woman, A Japanese Woman, And A Syrian Woman, All Training To Be Doctors At Women’s Medical College Of Philadelphia
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#2
A French Soldier Feeding His Kitten, Indochina 1956
"I think photography can be an essential and powerful tool for understanding history, but I think it is also necessary to view all photographs with a critical eye," professor, writer, and amateur homesteader Joshua Wilkey told Bored Panda, commenting on one of our earlier publications.
"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."
#3
A Group Of Five Trans Women In Paris, 1959 - Miriam, Nana, Jacky, Gine And Sabrina. Photo By Christer Strömholm
#4
3 Year Old Kisses A Puppy, 1950
wifeofweasley 3 years ago
puppys have always been loved - look at his smoochie little face so adorable <3
#5
Diana Ross Finishing A Rib, 1980s
Dr. Darren R. Reid, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dundee and is now a lecturer at Coventry University, agrees.
He explained to us that images are an incredibly important part of how we understand the past. "They give us a distinct look into how people and societies viewed themselves and each other," Reid said.
#6
A Veterinarian, Inspecting An Early Prototype Of The Internet In The 1950's
#7
Fan Takes Selfie With Elvis Presley. 1960s
#8
1950s Teenagers Going On A Date
#9
View Of The Pyramids During A Solar Eclipse, August 30, 1905. Photo: Gabriel Lekegian
"In the medieval period, for example, Jesus and the saints were often depicted as physically larger than ordinary people — not because they were believed to be taller, but because they occupied a higher status in the minds of the artists who produced these images, and the audiences who consumed them. In later centuries, Europeans (and their descendants) looked to the classical world for inspiration, spending huge amounts of time (and money) on images that were both increasingly realistic and idealized," Reid said.
#10
A California Teacher Teaching The Physics Of Surfing, 1970
#11
Norman Parkinson Photograph Of Two People Running Up A Street In New York City In 1960
#12
A Secret Love: To Buzz, L'il Always Remember The Times We Spent Together. All My Love, Your Tommy 26 March 1949
#13
David Bowie, Paris, June 1977. Photo By Christian Simonpiétri
"Native Americans and American colonizers were frequently depicted in classical poses — all deliberate choices that show us how many people perceived the invasion of the Americas and the genocides that occurred there," Reid continued.
"They also include important details (such as items of clothing, hairstyles, etc.) that help us to picture the past. For modern people, this means we can more accurately imagine, and perhaps, empathize with the very different folks who came before us."
#14
Audrey Hepburn, Paris, 1956
#15
Summer Solstice Celebration, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970
Susie Elle 3 years ago
The right half of my brain: Oh how lovely what a nice snapshot of culture - The left half of my brain: MIDSOMMAR
#16
Winona Ryder The Night She Met Johnny Depp
#17
Newlyweds Ride A Train Headed To Tokyo, Japan, 1964. Photo By Bill Ray
Misty-Dawn Amayi 3 years ago
Japanese so rarely show PDA, even during their weddings, so this is a much more rare photo than most would imagine.
Talking about photographs, in particular, Joshua Wilkey provided a few very helpful questions we can ask ourselves when analyzing them:
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 highlighted. "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."
#18
Albert Einstein Before His Famous Photo With His Tongue Out
#19
Audrey With Her Hair Down
#20
A Gay Couple And A Lesbian Couple Outside The Bank, Idaho, United States, 1941. Photo By Russell Lee
#21
Prince Charles And Princess Diana On Vacation In Bahamas, 1982
Is the photo 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. The reality is a bit different."
#22
A Young Boy That Had Just Stolen His Father's Car And Crashed It, Takes One Last Puff On His Cigarette Before Facing The Consequences. 1974
#23
"Being Deeply Loved By Someone Gives You Strength, While Loving Someone Deeply Gives You Courage"
#24
San Francisco's Lombard Street In 1975
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
Doesn't the yellow Pacer look like it's going the wrong way on this one way road?
#25
A Girl With A Massive Bush
As the historian said, these concepts can apply to virtually any photograph, but they become crucial when we're viewing a particular one as evidence. "They are important for historical photographs because of the power and usefulness of photography in political propaganda. North Korea is a great example of a regime that uses photography for propaganda, and the Soviet Union and the US were great examples too, particularly during the Cold War and the Space Race."
#26
James Dean Signing Autographs In His Car, 1950's
#27
Burlesque Dancer Miss Zorita Walking Her Snake, 1940s
#28
Thames Swan Shares A Treat, 1958
#29
Jumping The Puddle, Berlin, 1930. Photo By Friedrich Seidenstücker
#30
Young Couples At A Formal Dance Dreamily Sway On The Crowded Floor Of Dim, Chandelier-Lit Ballroom, 1940s. Photo By Nina Leen
AppletreeChild 3 years ago
Love that. I just wish there were more formal events like that nowadays. Not just for the upper crust but for everyone.
#31
An Exhausted Young Couple During An All-Night Jazz Session At The Royal Albert Hall In London, 1957. Photo By Erich Auerbach
#33
Marilyn Monroe, Startled By A Firecracker, Opens The Time-Life Building In New York, 1957
#34
New York City Ballet, 1940. Photo By Larry Colwell
#35
Bonnie And Clyde's Last Kiss A Few Hours Before They Were Killed, May 23, 1934
#36
Evolution Of The Donut Hole
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I like the little doughnut in his hand. Were they that small in the days, and have gotten bigger, thus making up for the size of the hole?
Robin Canfield 3 years ago
How do you get that job? Do you just need a ruler and poster board and a pointy stick? Woah...that sounds rude...
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
Really interesting. Look at the donut in his hand, its seems so small compared with today's donuts. I often think about how people 50+ years ago ate many of the same things we do now, but for some reason it didn't make them gain a lot of weight. That donut plus a cup of coffee was probably ~125 calories. A plain Krispy Kreme donut today is 190 calories.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
Everything is super-sized now, and so are our waistlines!
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Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
Yes because people were smaller then. Yes I just made that up
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John Barber 3 years ago
As you go through life make this your goal Watch the doughnut not the hole.
Tina Harnish 3 years ago
When I was a kid, my mother would make doughnuts and I would take doughnut holes to school. Kids in my class didn't know what they were and had trouble comprehending what they were.
𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
Keep this off the internet please, food manufacturers don’t need any more ideas to make stuff smaller (and then raise prices!)
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
Actually the trend has been the opposite, at least for junk food. Look at the size of the donut in his hand compared to now.
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General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
As you ramble on through life, brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole. -Mayflower Donuts
iblewsheep 3 years ago
what did you expect? people to storm the streets protesting for MORE HOLE!
Nikki Sholar 3 years ago
They started using smaller peckers... So it'd give more cushion and yumminess
William Handlon 3 years ago
And how much did this study cost the tax payers. Sounds like the Dems were at it even back then.
lol.litl.owl 3 years ago
The years is just messing with my head... 27-37-48 ....Why not just do 47?!?!
EmJay 11 months ago
Cause that wasnt the year, maybe they started making a smaller hole in the donut in 48? which im guessing is why he put... 48
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#37
"Females At The First Chippendales Club, Los Angeles, 1979"
#38
Sharon Tate Wearing A Pink Top And Headband, 1968
#39
Love In Time Of War, 1944
#40
On The Observation Deck Of The Empire State Building, New York, Mid-1940's
#41
Couple On Beach, Coney Island, 1947. Photo By Ruth Orkin
#42
Woodstock '69
#43
A Young Man Helping His Date Into Her Skating Kit, Tokyo, 1959. Photograph By John Dominis
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
"Concept of Love" blares loudly over the speakers as she skates past him for the 42nd time.
#44
Surrounded By Others, A Couple Enjoys Some Privacy As They Embrace In A Hole In The Sand On A Beach In Santa Monica, California, July 4, 1950 (Photo By Ralph Crane)
#45
A Man Stops To Watch A Woman Tie Her Sandals In Portofino Marina, August 1977. Photo By Slim Aarons
#46
A Couple Drinking Water From Fountain. Michigan, 1940s
#47
"Sausages And Women. If You Want To Enjoy The Experience, Never Watch The Preparation Of Either." Oscar Wilde
#48
John & Yoko Waiting For The Maid To Make The Bed So They Can Continue Protesting The System
#49
A Couple Making A Point About Smog And The Environment, 1970. Photo By H. Armstrong
#50
A Filipino Baby And Her Family Inside A Human Zoo In New York, USA. 1906
#51
Fifty Years From Now, I Don't Want To Look Back On The Moments I Lived-- I Want To Reminisce On The Moments I Felt Alive
#52
Audrey Hepburn On The Set Of Breakfast At Tiffany's, 1961
#53
Couple Holding Hands On Banks Of The Tombigbee River Below Ante Bellum Riverview Mansion Where They Are Attending A Morale Boosting Party For Cadets At Nearby Army Flying Academy, 1948. Photo By Alfred Eisenstaedt
#54
Chelsea Arts Ball, 1958. Photo By Sergio Larraín
#55
A Couple Relaxing On The Banks Of The Seine River In Paris, France - During The Spring Of 1949. Photo By Nat Farbman
#56
"My Grandpa’s Got Game", Late 1940’s
#57
Stevie Nicks || Fleetwood Mac Live, 1978
#58
Wedding, Harper's Bazaar, 1951. Photo By Lillian Bassman
#59
"The Staircase", New York, 1968. Photo By Saul Leiter
Mimi La Souris 3 years ago
"Le meilleur moment de l'amour, c'est quand on monte l'escalier. " clemenceau (The best time of love is when you climb the stairs.)
#60
'hells Cafe' In Paris, 1920s
#61
Teen Party In 1947
#62
The Kiss (1859)
#63
David Bowie (The Man Who Fell To Earth, 1976)
#64
Audrey Hepburn, The Hug, 1951. Photo By Lawrence Fried
#65
Marja Berisa 3 years ago
What's going on in the background with the shoes? My eyes don't connect with my brain!
#66
Cher In 1966. Photo By Giancarlo Botti
#67
Beatles Fans Wait On A New York Street For A Chance To Glimpse Their Idols
#69
Joni Mitchell, Nevada 1978, By Henry Diltz
#70
A Teenager In El Paso's Second Ward, June 1972
#71
Oung Lovers In Paris, 1972
#72
"A Single Person Is Missing For You, And The Whole World Is Empty"
#74
By Viktor Vasnetsov
#76
An Intimate Moment Between Alain Delon And Romi Schneider
#78
Johnny Depp And Kate Moss In 90s
#80
"Wild Horses", 1979. Photo By Joseph Szabo
#81
Beside The Stage At The Woodstock Festival By Elliott Landy, August 1969
Hippopotamuses 3 years ago
Interesting how fashions come back into style (Personally, I’m waiting for flares to come back)
#85
1962 November Playboy
#87
Chrysler Alpine Under The Rainbow. 1977
#88
Two Women Hitchhiking In Toronto, Canada, 1974
#89
Paris, 1975. Photo By Edouard Boubat
#94
Lovers On The Grass In Washington Square Park, New York, 1953. Photo By Ernst Haas
Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
Ahhhh! Yes! Romance on what used to be the execution grounds and a graveyard! Sweet!!! LOL
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Air Conditioner 3 years ago
Yeah, I just want somebody to love me like that
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Never Jeleniewicz 3 years ago
It really amuses me how people in the comments don't doubt the fact that a man and a woman are a couple, but need "proof" that a gay couple is.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Does anyone think that some of the years from the photos aren't vintage? The 1980s, for one
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
You might want to sit down for this but … I think 80’s are vintage! Really it doesn’t matter what I think all that matters is the people born after 1997 think 80’s are vintage
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Raena Celis 3 years ago
All the photos were uplifting, then I got to the photo of the Filipino baby tired up at a human zoo, and I was instantly reminded that humans can be cruel and disgusting beings because of how we treated our fellow men.
Anthony Jordan 3 years ago
#4 is at least 1992. That's a post-'91 Buick Skylark behind her. (Though she looks to be time trekking from the 1970s here.)
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
This didn't change my perspective on anything. It was just couples and other sappy garbage but ✨black and white✨
KurtCobainofficiallmao 3 years ago
as a black person I didnt find this offensive I have no problem with white people and their defintly were black and poc on this list.
Load More Replies... Air Conditioner 3 years ago
Yeah, I just want somebody to love me like that
Load More Replies... Never Jeleniewicz 3 years ago
It really amuses me how people in the comments don't doubt the fact that a man and a woman are a couple, but need "proof" that a gay couple is.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Does anyone think that some of the years from the photos aren't vintage? The 1980s, for one
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
You might want to sit down for this but … I think 80’s are vintage! Really it doesn’t matter what I think all that matters is the people born after 1997 think 80’s are vintage
Load More Replies... Raena Celis 3 years ago
All the photos were uplifting, then I got to the photo of the Filipino baby tired up at a human zoo, and I was instantly reminded that humans can be cruel and disgusting beings because of how we treated our fellow men.
Anthony Jordan 3 years ago
#4 is at least 1992. That's a post-'91 Buick Skylark behind her. (Though she looks to be time trekking from the 1970s here.)
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
This didn't change my perspective on anything. It was just couples and other sappy garbage but ✨black and white✨
KurtCobainofficiallmao 3 years ago
as a black person I didnt find this offensive I have no problem with white people and their defintly were black and poc on this list.
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