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This FB Group Shares Historical And Vintage Photos And Here Are 50 Of The Most Fascinating Ones
Imagine a world without photographs. There's so much we might never have "seen". Thanks to the invention and evolution of the camera, we have pieces of the past frozen in time. We are able to "experience" places we've never been. And we can share parts of our lives with strangers, in an instant.
Nowadays, almost anyone can be a photographer. An amateur one anyway. And you don't even need to carry a camera or professional equipment. A mobile phone with photographic capabilities will do just fine. But it wasn't always that way.
A group of highly talented photographers came before us, paving the way as they played with light around them. Facebook page History Photos Sealed In Time is a gorgeous gallery of "historical and vintage photos from around the world". Bored Panda has put together a list of our favorites. Keep scrolling for a captivating journey through the days of darkrooms and daylight color film. And learn a bit more about the days before digital photography.
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#1
Tricycle Gang In Brooklyn. New York City (1930s)
CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
There's always that one kid who can't keep his tongue in his mouth to save his life. LOL!
Doug O 1 year ago
The original Hells Angels biker gang. Back when it was more Angel than Hell.
Jane Alexander 1 year ago
I had a quadricycle with a steering wheel. I've only seen another once in a movie. Thanks Dad!
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#2
A Danish Zookeeper Waters The Emperor Penguins On A Hot Summer Day In 1957
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
My mind keeps telling me that they're about to burst into song. I can actually feel the rumble preceding the first note!
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
It's raining hens. Hallelujah, it's raining hens.
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Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Here's a link to the live penguin cam at the Edinburgh zoo for anyone who wants to enjoy a little time out: https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals/webcams/penguin-cam
#3
Man In Fog, London - 1935 Photo By Arthur Tanner
G A 1 year ago
I can hear the zither from The Third Man (yes I know it was Vienna but the atmosphere is the same).
Ace 1 year ago
Immediately put me in mind of the ending of Charade, although that was Paris, Now you mention it, I was mentally confusing it with the third man, also the video to the Ultravox song Vienna.
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The first ever photograph is known as “Window at Le Gras”. It came to life in 1826, when a French inventor set up a camera obscura to capture the view outside his window. "Camera obscura" is a Latin phrase, which literally means dark room. The National Gallery Of Art defines camera obscura as "an optical device that creates an image by focusing rays of light onto a screen or sheet of paper".
In essence, Nicéphore Niépce created the first camera that could properly capture an image and seal it in time. He had been playing around for a while. But at first, his images didn't "stick". In the early phases, he experimented with how a negative image could be created on paper coated with silver chloride. But those would always end up fading.
#4
Girls Playing Jump Rope, Chicago, 1950 - By Marvin E. Newman
JM 1 year ago
holy cow! thank you, Karina - I wouldn't have noticed that!
Load More Replies... Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
And in 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King would lead the Chicago Freedom Movement. I wonder if they were a part of it.
#5
A Heavy Load - Sioux. Edward S. Curtis, 1908
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
That picture could have been taken in any country of the world. The clothes would have been different, but a woman, often an old woman, stumbling under a heavy load of firewood, used to be a universal sight on all continents. Tending the hearthfire was a woman's job.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
Like Good King Wenceslas' Feast of Stephen adventure. We're told he encountered a man, but sometimes genders become less distinct among the elderly. Perhaps the song is wrong.
#6
Farm Life Of Western Norway - 1890s
Margaret H 1 year ago
I wonder how they managed to keep those aprons so spotless. I couldn't do it - I managed to get my wedding dress dirty between home and the church, so how anybody keeps anything white on a farm is miraculous to me.
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
My wife's three times great ancestors lived on a mountain side in Norway. After a rain, they would have to carry the topsoil back up in buckets.
After much trial and error, and several later chemical explorations, he finally got it right. He discovered that a certain film mixed with pewter could produce permanent photographic images when exposed inside a camera obscura. Niépce called this process ‘heliography’.
His first photo was a view from the window of his estate in Burgundy, France. It required an exposure time of around 8 hours. And while Niépce's images were blurry, they paved the way for the sharper, more professional photographs we can enjoy in this compilation.
#7
Christmas In London - 1948
GoodWolf 1 year ago
Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannenbaum! Wie grün sind deine Blätter
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Robin DJW 1 year ago (edited)
The war was over, but the tough times lingered for a further 6 years. The poor British were still in Austerity then. It was a tough time for them.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
My parents were there - it wasn't too bad (well, their dads had made it back alive, and they were both still quite young, so it probably seemed quite nice). The parts of the world that had been demolished by the war had it much, much worse.
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Just me, Happy Flower 1 year ago
This was quite a historical year. Olympics that year. Countries still in ruins. Obviously, Germany and Japan were not invited.
#8
Racecourse On Norderney Island Four Ladies In White Dresses On The Turf, Germany, 1908 - By Otto Haeckel
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Do it! And get lots of photos, and post one on Bored Panda
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MAKtheknife 1 year ago
They almost look like Gilmore Girls with their tight tiny waists and sumptuous hats.
#9
The Face Of The Custom House Clock In Boston Was Repainted By A Worker In 1976
Ash 1 year ago
which could make it really hard to balance right on that swing harness.
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Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Nope, you won't find me doing this job no matter how much you pay me. Do you suppose the guy poking his head out is going to tell the painter he missed a spot? 😬
Johnny McFearless 1 year ago
This question is even worse nightmare material than the picture itself.
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Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Oh man... as someone who gets vertigo going down stairwells, if I had to do this I would just DIE 😂😭mad respect for this man
It would be a few more years before photography could become accessible to the public. A big room wasn’t exactly the most practical tool for most people. When Niépce died in 1833, his protege Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took over. Thanks to him, the world was introduced the first ever portable camera in 1839.
#10
In Amsterdam, Holland, In 1953, A Milkman Was Seen Peddling His Dairy Products, Providing Fresh Milk And Other Essentials To The Community
G A 1 year ago
Most kids now wouldn't remember the milkman coming round every day. Wasn't that long since they stopped.
Robin DJW 1 year ago
He looks like a younger Patrick Stewart. I grew up un Ft Worth Texas. We had a milkman. Our family went through 4 or 5 gallons a week. We had a fridge in our garage that the milk man delivered to. Our gallons were in glass jugs that we rinsed out and put next to the fridge. God I miss that. My husband an I go through a gallon a week, almost. We are always buying milk.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
If I was lucky enough to get up before the family on milk delivery day, I would drink the cream off the top (before homogenized milk). The downside was being stuck with skim milk because of me.
Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
"He ran into my knife. He ran into my knife 10 times. He had it coming!" Lol
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Bianca Saville 1 year ago
We have milk delivered by the milkman every day. They still use the electric carts from the 1960s we call milk floats. We live in London.
Wendell T Sasaki 1 year ago
I was a kid In 1950s Berkeley, Calf. and I remember our milkman Fred very well.
Jnausicaa 10 months ago
Farms? In Berkeley?!?!? (Berkeley Farms was my favourite growing up in Sunnyvale)
Load More Replies... Breadcrumb. 1 year ago
There is a old photo of my grandpa and his father delivering milk in Holland but they used a horse and buggy and wore wooden clogs. I think it was later than this photo..
#11
Man With Bird, Tyneside, England, Ca. 1937 - By Edith Tudor Hart
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
If I didn't know better, I'd say that was a red bishop bird. Look at it! Violently denouncing its congregation from the pulpit, threatening fire and brimstone! That little piece of fluff on its head looks like the mussed hair of a crazed old man
#12
Photo By Russell Lee - New Madrid County, Missouri. Child Of Sharecropper Cultivating A Field - 1938
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
whenever I;m scrolling through posts like this I always wonder about the people in the pictures. .... What were their lives like, what happened to them. This young man could still be alive. Does he have children, grandkids? .. Is someone looking at this pic right now and saying "holy c**p , that's my grandfather"
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Really sad and embarrassing this happened in our country. And still does in many ways.
Sue From Michigan 1 year ago
He's a child who is a sharecropper along with his parents not just their child.
Katherine Forrestall 1 year ago
Such a hard life...littke fellow should hsve been in school, or playing. 😟☹
"A forerunner of the modern camera, the camera obscura consisted first of a room, then later of a portable box with a small opening in one side," reads the National Gallery of Art site. "Light reflected by objects in the natural world enters the box through a lens set into the opening and projects an image onto the opposite surface. The image, like one formed on the retina of the eye, is upside down and reversed.
#13
In Whitechapel, London, A Young Person's Eyes Wander Longingly Over The Freshly Baked Goods In A Bakery Window During The Financial Hardships Of The 1930s
Dilly Millandry 1 year ago
You aren't misreading! It's a sweet roll with crushed sugar sprinkled on top after baking. Can add dried fruit and candied peel to the recipe. I believe (though happy to be corrected if wrong) that they originated in the town of Bath (named after it's Roman Baths), hence the name.
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#14
Ladies Sharing An Umbrella, London, 1959
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
This is a picture of the resilience of humanity. Just 15 years earlier, when they were small girls, they'd have been living through air-raids and blackouts. food rations, millions made homeless, thousands dead and the ever-present threat of invasion... It's a breathtaking transformation.
araT sdrawkcaB 1 year ago
How do women keep shrugs/jackets on just draped like that? Do i just flail about too much??
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I couldn't be bothered either, so when my mother insisted I wear something to be draped over the shoulders, I would wear a cloak chain attached. Keeps everything where it should be.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
I remember my mother always saying that ladies' skirts and dresses must be two inches below the knee. We all sewed all our own stylish clothes too.
droid51 1 year ago
That's a Bedford truck in the foreground and a Vauxhall Victor in the background. Both made in Britain by GM. So quit likely London or another British city.
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L'uomo Che Corre. Paris, Photo By Sabine Weiss, 1953
Daguerre called his box camera the "Daguerreotype". It had plate inside, coated with a thin film of silver iodide. The plate had to be exposed to a few minutes or hours of light to produce an image. It was then treated with mercury vapor and hot saltwater to remove the silver iodide.
And voila! A permanent image, or daguerreotype, was left behind. But the images were still all mirror images, or in reverse. After trial and error, Daguerre managed to reduce the exposure time to just a few seconds. It was a turning point in the history of photography, and catapulted cameras into the commercial arena.
#16
Passengers In Railway Station, Germany, 1940’s - By Paul Wolff
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
It rather depends on which half of the 1940s this is, as to how I feel about it.
Peter Bear 1 year ago
Either way, most of the people were still the same people. A muddle in the middle, bit of good, bit of bad, just trying to get through their lives. Evil leadership does not make an entire people evil.
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nm (he/him) 1 year ago
Frankfurt Railway Station by Dr. Paul Wolff, 1926 (not 1940s). https://www.overgaard.dk/the-story-behind-that-picture-0122_gb-Dr-Paul_Wolff.html
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Deeply haunting, knowing what's to come. Thank you for the link.
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Bryn 1 year ago
No, just clean: https://www.overgaard.dk/the-story-behind-that-picture-0122_gb-Dr-Paul_Wolff.html
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A Bench From Out Of Youth, 1970 - By Andrei Knyazev
Jay Scales 1 year ago
They look as if they're thinking: '2 minutes ago I was young.... What happened?'
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
How lucky for us a photographer was close by! Looks rather candid for such a shot...
Pamela Scott 1 year ago
Can almost imagine them as little kids daydreaming about when they grow up. Then they are daydreaming about all the things they got up to as kids.
Lesbitarian Lady 1 year ago
I wonder if their dresses are purple and their hats red. 'Warning' Jenny Joseph poem, may have encouraged them to do so. I love them and don't even know them 💜
#18
Laugharne, Wales, Photo By Philip Jones Griffiths, 1959
Sian E 1 year ago
Laugharne is relatively local to me and I have ancestors from the town. This was taken in an area known as The Grist. Just out of shot is a Celtic cross. The buildings are all still there today. The one on the left is a cafe/gift shop, the one in the middle is a fish and chip shop/pub and the one on the right is a convenience store.
Onan Hag All 1 year ago
Not quite. Although the bulk of UMW was written there, Thomas drew most of his inspiration from Newquay in Wales for the town.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
" Hey good looking! Would you like to come over and play doctor with me?"
Back then, photographers could work on one print at a time. But William Henry Fox Talbot soon changed the game. He came up with what's known as the calotype process. It allowed photographers to create a negative, and use it to produce multiple prints at a time.
Following that was George Eastman’s creation of the first roll of Kodak film in 1889. Suddenly people could take multiple photos one after the other. And photographs didn’t have to be individually processed. It was the beginning of snapshots, as we know them now. When Thomas Edison later added perforated edges, we were gifted with the 35mm format that dominated the industry for years to come.
#19
Experienced Ticker Tape Operators Diligently Working On The New York Stock Exchange In 1915, Ensuring Precise Monitoring Of Market Activity
#20
Chorus Girls Reading On The Set Of You Can’t Have Everything, 1937
#21
"The Camera Is An Instrument That Teaches People How To See Without A Camera" - Dorothea Lange
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Here is the entire photograph. She is sitting atop her 1933 Ford V8 Station Wagon. https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6056604973
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
That's clearly not the same photo. It's not even a similar vehicle.
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The danish woman 1 year ago
I love her work, she captured the hardships of the time so well, that you can almost feel it
The first 35mm camera was introduced in 1925. The compact Leica was a far cry from the big, bulky box cameras that photographers had to lug around before. And as more people experimented over the years, we finally saw color film enter the fray.
Kodak was once again on the frontlines of film advancement. And released Kodachrome in 1936. Unlike monochrome, or black and white, the film had multiple layers and allowed photographers to bring their work to life with a range of vibrant colors.
#22
Photo By Cecil Beaton - Tilly Losch (1930’s)
Amanda Drake 1 year ago
I feel like there is a story to this picture. I wonder who this woman was and what she was thinking when this photograph was taken.
Aranora 1 year ago
Here you go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Losch
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Women Factory Workers In A Cotton Mill In Lancashire, England, Circa 1908
Ace 1 year ago
It wasn't _that_ much earlier that they were still employing children to crawl behind and underneath working looms to clear out the accumulating cotton lint...
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Heras buddy 1 year ago
There were no health and safety rules back then. Work all day 6 days a week.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Mmm - to my mind "cotton mill" means "spinning cotton into thread". The machines in view are looms weaving threads into cloth. Then again, there were plenty of factories which took in cotton bales and did all the spinning and weaving in the one place. There's one not far from me - preserved as a semi-working museum, still trying to operate with the original water power: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/quarry-bank
Valerie Page 1 year ago
Oh Yes ! Quarry Bank Mill is a fascinating day out. You can even visit the apprentices house
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
There is a tv drama min-series called The Mill set in a mill like this which is really interesting.
#24
Rhine River Boat Transporting Whisky, Düsseldorf, Ca. 1957 - By Leonard Freed
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
A lot of whisky is aged in barrels previously used for sherry. I would have assumed that they put new markings when they do that, but perhaps they're on the other end.
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Diana Powers 1 year ago
The pooch looking straight at the camera just makes this photograph for me.
Polaroid pictures added a whole fun, new element to photography. In a world where instant gratification reigns supreme, people were now able to snap and see their pics instantly. The invention of the first instant camera by Edwin H. Land in 1848 was met with much excitement. Many decades later, Instagram launched with a logo of a Polaroid camera.
#25
Farmer Walking In Dust Storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma Circa 1936
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
That's after the dust storm. During the dust storm, they would almost certainly have been indoors and photography was impossible.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
A horrible time in US history for sure, but one which was caused entirely by human beings messing up a balanced ecosystem. US farmers destroyed the natural vegetation, ploughing it up to make money by growing cash crops, and nature had a few words to say about that. Without the natural vegetation holding the soil in place, when the weather turned a little drier, the wind tore the topsoil off and this was the result. Don't mess with Mother Nature. Not that I blame the little boy bringing up the rear - but still...
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#26
Little Sarakatsana Spins Wool, 1940's - By Takis Tloupas
Sally Moen 1 year ago
Distaff is holding the wool, and she has drop spindle in other hand to spin the wool into yarn. Drop spindles are much easier to use than spinning wheels and have been around for centuries. You can walk while spinning using a drop spindle. I'm not 100% certain that is wool there. Could be cotton
Jen Schurman 1 year ago
I cared for a lady from Italy who taught me to spin this way. She said she grabbed wool and spun on the way to school every day-this is called drop spinning btw-by Christmas she had spun enough wool to knit a sweater for her brother’s gift.
#27
The Great Flood Of 1910 In Paris, France
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
Looking at this makes me want to cry, because of what's happened due to Hurricane Helene. The current death toll is 230 and rising, hundreds still missing, because it effected 6 states here in the US. The ONLY reason the death toll is lower then Hurricane Katrina was because, New Orleans is below sea level, it was a Category 5 and less people evacuated. EVERYONE learned a hard lesson with HK and are more willing and less stubborn about Getting The F**k Out Of Dodge, when they give evacuation orders. My Brother that passed away, his wife (my SIL) is from North Carolina and her Mother is still living there. My Niece said she had went to NC to get her out of there before the Hurricane hit and she called once she made it to her Mom's before the storm hit, haven't heard anything since then. I'm just finding out, my Niece didn't want to "stress" me out since "you're sick Auntie". I love my SIL, niece and nephew to death, but good Lord they're stubborn like their Daddy!
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
Cell coverage is REALLY spotty and f****d up so we are all hoping that's why we haven't heard anything yet.
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#28
Photo By Leonard Freed - Farm Women, Bay Of Naples, Italy 1958
#29
Mailbox Attached To A German Tram, Postman Empties The Mailbox. Berlin, 1920
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 1 year ago
Jeez, the way those men are glaring at the camera! Either they are ticked about war reparations or the photographer owes all of them money!
Ash 1 year ago
I don't think they're glaring, I think they've just turned around to see what's going on
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#30
Carrer De Les Basses De Sant Pere, Barcelona, 1946 - By Otho Lloyd
El Borito 1 year ago
Not changed much?...it's invested by tourism. But it really is beautiful.
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#31
Unemployed Miner Returning Home From Jarrow, England, 1937 - By Bill Brandt
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
The Jarrow March was a protest against unemployment by around 200 men from Jarrow, Northumberland, who walked to London to deliver a petition to the House of Commons. Mostly they weren't miners, but shipyard workers, following the closure of the shipyard which was the main source of employment in the town.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Known as "The Jarrow Crusaders" it took them three weeks to walk the roughly 465km (290 miles).
Load More Replies... PandaGoPanda 1 year ago
Anyone else got the Jarrow Song going through their head right now? "My name is little Billy White ...."
Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
Hang in there buddy, another two years and all your prayers will be answered.
OrangeStripey Hat 1 year ago
Or, yano, any type of bike he could afford to own
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Rue Mouffetard, Paris, Ca. 1945 - By Brassaï
ucp 1 year ago
I believe they are roller skates - looks like they’re attached by straps to his shoes
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#33
Liverpool, Photo By By Paul Trevor, 1975
Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
No, these are golf socks… 18 holes. I’ll see myself out.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Yes it does look more 30s than 70s - but still: 70s it could be. I'm more inclined to 1930s on account of the cut of the clothes and the motor vehicle on the street to the left.
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#34
Teachers Training Students Of The Royal Dance Academy At Fairfield Lodge In 1949
Lindy Mac 1 year ago
Apatheist ... very lol ...but she is doing a demo.... they won't need to go up on the table.
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How pointe shoes have improved and changed over the course of ballet history.
Tyelel 1 year ago
What is going on with the foot on the 2nd girl from the left? Are ankles supposed to rotate like that?
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Looks like she turning out her foot but by her ankles and not her hips. Some dancers will try to force it like that if their hips won't be able to. It's not good for their bodies. It also looks like the pointe shoes she's wearing are too tight. Something that may have been acceptable back then.
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tee-lena 1 year ago
It's funny how many of us tilt our heads when wanting to pay attention. It's cute
Jane Alexander 1 year ago
A friend once told me she had studied under a student of Pavlova. She said it ruined her feet. They were made to touch the floor with their toes while lying on their back.
#35
Paris, 1952 - By Édouard Boubat
#36
A Sears Roebuck Catalogue Assembly Line In 1942
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
In those days, catalogue shopping was life changing for some. Black people might be denied entry to stores, rejected and not able to buy some things due to racism. The anonymity of buying by mail allowed Black people and communities to shop and buy on credit what they couldn't buy otherwise. [ https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_all-about-america_how-sears-catalog-fought-white-supremacists/6176981.html ]
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Montgomery Ward was the first company to go all-in on mail-order catalogs, and for a time, they were the most popular. However, Sears came up with the clever strategy of making their catalog smaller than MW’s 8x12 version. This ensured that when people stacked all their catalogs, Sears would always be on top—both physically and, eventually, in the market as well. More fun catalog trivia: https://southfloridareporter.com/early-sears-catalogs-were-smaller-than-montgomery-ward-so-they-would-be-placed-atop-others/
BossyHossy1 1 year ago
The Sears Christmas Catalog was awaited with glee and we, 4 children, drew lots or numbers to have the first look!! We would lock ourselves in the bathroom, my sister and I, for our turn looking at all the toys and clothes. The J.C. Penneys Christmas Catalog was also highly coveted.
doredde 1 year ago
Time changes, Jobs change. And mind what a lot of paper waste they produced. Spares at least some trees from falling.
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Quai Du Louvre, Paris, Photo By Marcel Bovis, 1946
#38
A Lady Sold Hot Chestnuts In Soho, In The West End Of London, England, In 1935
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Awful raw but delicious roasted, sort of like a hazelnut but a little sweeter.
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Katherine Forrestall 1 year ago
And I have eaten roasted chestnuts in the streets of London, New York, Paris, Montreal..always delish, hurdy gurdy and monkey, or not.
#39
The Sonter Family Packing Fruit, Ray Road, Epping, Sydney - 1911 By Rex Hazlewood
Verena 1 year ago
I was really shocked when seeing the aerial of "the Ponds" - no ponds anymore anywhere. Just copy paste packed single family houses with no yard to mention. A concrete desert, besides that one stubborn family with their gigantic lawn. I hooray them, but they could do better, plant some trees and shrubbage. People do admire high rise apartments in other countries, but refuse to live in them in their own. Single fanily homes are not the answer to housing everybody
Load More Replies... Pamela Christie 1 year ago
In those times they packed fruit. Nowadays everyone's packing heat.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago (edited)
This was my youth home territory we lived around the corner from the original orchards, and the photographer was a possible family member. Changes are enormous now. The old family homestead on a large block was razed, and the land is still waiting for another highrise to be built.
#40
Photo By Gianni Berengo Gardin, 1953
Blue Sky 1 year ago
The guaranteed trip up, fall down or break an ankle stairs.
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#41
Nuns, Rio De Janeiro, 1955 - By Ormond Gigli
#42
Alla Nazimova And Rudolph Valentino In Camille - 1921
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Alla Mazimova (usually referred to as just "Mazimova") is beyond fascinating. She was one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. A Russian Jew, she was a trained ballet dancer. Openly lesbian, she was in a lavender marriage with actor Charles Bryant. She made an extremely and wonderfully strange movie "Salome" (based on the Oscar Wild play) in which every person linked with the movie was openly gay - the actors, crew, even the cleaning crew. Insanely rich, she built "The Gardens of Allah", a series of interlinked mansions where there were constant wild parties. In her old age she lost all of her money and ended up in a rented room in "The Gardens of Allah". Look her up!
#43
Girls Picking Huckleberries - 1920s
Chris Wilson 1 year ago
today I learned a huckleberry is an actual berry not just the name of some american adventurer..
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
We had wild huckleberries back on the farm. One summer we picked and sold over 200 quarts of berries. Wonderful pies, not to mention homemade strawberry ice cream, with our own cream and wild strawberries.
Robin DJW 1 year ago
I have picked huckleberries in a mountain forest near Battle Ground WA. They are like tiny blueberries with a flavor out of this world. That was a very fun day. Thanks, Brandy!
Elizabeth Everman 1 year ago
This photo definitely looks like it was in the PNW!
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In 1940, Factory Workers In London, England, Produced Spectacles Compatible With Gas Masks
Yellow dot 1 year ago
My partner and I are both near legal-blindness and would have suffered terribly from our lack of vision without these special spectacles. We make jokes about how we would not be survivors before spectacles were invented
Lenore Jean Jones 1 year ago
Yes. I'm partially deaf, too, and in an apocalypse my hearing aids would only last a day or so. It's scary to think about.
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Any time I read a book /see a movie /watch a TV show that involves the apocalypse I think about how screwed I'd be if I broke my glasses.
Robin DJW 1 year ago
Me, too. And I have tri-focal glasses with astigmatism correction. I could see a lot better after I had my cataracts removed and got lens implants. Still have to wear glasses, though. Vision is so precious. Visit your optometrist or ophthalmologist regularly.
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#45
New Year's Eve In The Vondelpark, Opposite The Entrance To Van Eeghenstraat, Amsterdam, 1951 - By Ben Van Meerendonk
#46
Hooverville (Great Depression), Ca. 1936
Ace 1 year ago
Times may seem hard to some people today, but it's really not in the same league as how bad it was in the Depression years.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
A shameful part of US history that MAGATs don't want kids to learn about today.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
How is it that Hoover's name never appears on 'Worst Presidents in History' lists anymore?
#47
San Nicola Da Crissa, Italy, 1950
Upstaged75 1 year ago
That looks like a yearling to me. (A young horse) They tend to be scrawny while they're growing. Although I really want to move the halter away from its eye.
Load More Replies... Lisa in Colorado 1 year ago
Looks like the halter was made out of scrap material. Along with the other indications of poverty in the photo, that and the horse's poor condition show how bad it must have been.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Poor horse is so severely emaciated it couldn't haven't possibly lived long.
#48
Photo By Jean Hermanson - Vietnam, 1973
Abdullah Abd Rahman 1 year ago
No, this was when US soldiers were still there.They left - in a humiliating evacuation -in 1975, thank God ! Now, Vietnam is prospering.
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#49
Standing In Line. Photo By Robert Doisneau, France, 1940s
#50
Curling In Central Park, New York City - 1906
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Oldest curling stone found in Scotland was engraved with the date 1511, so yes, it's old.
Load More Replies... Pamela Christie 1 year ago (edited)
I can never see one of these things without remembering the bomb hidden inside one in the movie "Help!" I am moving my left leg...I am moving my right leg...
#51
In Pennsylvania During The 1940s, Charles Teenie Harris's Photo Captured A Server Behind The Counter Of A Soda Fountain
Richard Graham 1 year ago (edited)
Charles "Teenie" "One-Shot" Harris was the photographer with "The Pittsburgh Courier", which was the de-facto national African-American newspaper. He took thousands and thousands of photographs, all beautiful and technically perfect, which are a stunning record of African-American life from the 1930s to the 1970s. All of his photos were taken in Pittsburgh (my home town).
#52
Eureka, Colorado - Early 1900s
#53
Venice, Photo By Siegfried Lauterwasser, 1960s
#54
The Sandman, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1890s
#55
The Village Of Moussages, Photo By Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968
#56
Olga Schubert, A Little 5-Year-Old After A Days Work That Began About 5 Am Helping Her Mother In The Biloxi Canning Factory, 1911
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"When Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed her state’s new, more permissive child labor law on May 26, 2023, the Republican leader said the measure would “allow young adults to develop their skills in the workforce.” - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2023-06-26/states-are-loosening-child-labor-laws
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Translation: Put kids to work early so they miss out on education, because ignorant people are easier to bamboozle and mislead.
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TheGirlWhoWoreGlasses 1 year ago
It is shockinhg how little we think children capable of compared to these times. Not that kids should work in factories, just an observation,
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Those kids lived very hard, sometimes very short lives. Although children are capable of helping out with small, light tasks with supervision. Children do not make good, ideal workers. Even back then, the children had a ton of expectations and many were severely punished for not performing with the same expectations as an adult worker. There isn't a fair way to compare at all. But we can observe how hard and unfair it was for children back then.
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Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 1930's - By Friedrich Seidenstücker
Magpie 1 year ago
The woman seems to be blind (based on her armband) and she has lost her both arms. :(
Rebecca O’Donnell 1 year ago (edited)
I think her right hand is in her pocket and the left one is covered by the box she is holding. Also, I love that the dog has a blanket to lay on.
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#58
A Group Of Boys Assembled In Front Of A Chicago Building (1951)
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
When did it become taboo for young men to have casual, physical contact with each other? I hope male friends hanging out with each other like this becomes normalized again soon.
Karina 1 year ago
I see your point, and agree, but they look like brothers.
Load More Replies... doredde 1 year ago
And older people today complaining about the younger ones "hanging around" without a cause...
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Old people have always complained about what the youth do. Even in the time period of this photo these boys would be suspected of being up to no good by some biddy.
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Just Two Guys Shooting The Breeze In New York, 1950s
Socks Thecate 1 year ago
Indeed, and I guarantee one of them was called Tony
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Lime Street Railway Station, Liverpool, 1954, Photographed By Bert Hardy
#61
New York's Spanish Harlem (1950s)
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
♫ It is a special one, it's never seen the sun . . . ♫
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An Attendant At Los Angeles' Gilmore 'Self-Service' Gas Station Took Up Knitting During Slow Periods In 1948
#63
New York City's Summer Street Life In 1954
Richard Graham 1 year ago
On the right - 1953 or 1954 Ford. On the left (facing us) is a 1948 Dodge. Behind it a 1950 Plymouth.
#65
Stanley Kubrick's 1947 Photograph Of A New York Taxi Driver Changing A Tire
#66
New York City's Early Adoption Of Electric Buses (1908)
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 year ago
trash cans look better. Raccoons confuse the two and the trash cans are honest about what they are and don't claim to have unbreakable windows. They do their job and they normally do it fairly well.
Load More Replies... Richard Graham 1 year ago
Here is the entire photo - actually from 1904. https://mezha.media/en/2022/07/03/photo-of-the-day-seeing-new-york-a-tour-on-electric-buses-in-new-york-in-1904/
#68
Front Porch Of Tenant Farmers House Near Warner, Oklahoma - 1939
#69
The Summer Girl And Her Sweetheart, 1897
#70
Girl On A Stoop, New York City, Ca. 1946 - By Sonia Handelman Meyer
Karina 1 year ago
There is/was a myth that if your upper body is warm, you dont freeze..
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 1 year ago
My Nan would have moved those buttons across an inch and let the hem down
#72
Italian Immigrant Man In His Makeshift Home Under The Rivington Street Dump, New York City - 1890
Dariusz M. D. 1 year ago
I bet his children had better lives, especially is their name was Corleone
Load More Replies... Agfox 1 year ago (edited)
This is a pic from around the same time of a woman working in the dump above where this guy was living MNY3677-67...dc1f8e.jpg 
#73
Three Children Stand Outside Mrs. Herbst's Bakery In New York City In 1960, Gazing Through The Window
#74
Vienna, Austria, Photo By Elfriede Mejchar, - 1960
#75
A Group Of Workers Gathered At A Portable Snack Stand Beneath Brooklyn Bridge, Refreshments In Hand, In The 1950s
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Vendors like this now need a permit to reserve specific locations in NYC. Some prime spots can cost hundreds of thousands per year. No joke - $200,000K to park a hot dog cart. https://shorturl.at/QOtA7
#76
Photo By Willy Ronis - Le Café De France, L'isle-Sur-La-Sorgue (Vaucluse), 1979
#77
The Circus At A Children's Hospital - 1923
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Circus elephants have very sad, lonely lives. They are naturally social creatures who like to stick to their herds for life. In the circus they are abused and neglected. If a zoo "rescues" a circus elephant they are used for roughly the same purpose. Giving rides to rambunctious, loud kids all day. No free-will. No freedom.
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
In case kids are wondering - we did have colour photos at the time many of these were taken. The 1960s was one of the most colourful decades.
Rick Funk 1 year ago
At 71 years old, I look back at these pictures and amazed how they made it in such difficult times. And the kids of today would probably have not made it.
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
Bravo, Bored Panda! None of these (at least for me) was a rerun! Good job!
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
In case kids are wondering - we did have colour photos at the time many of these were taken. The 1960s was one of the most colourful decades.
Rick Funk 1 year ago
At 71 years old, I look back at these pictures and amazed how they made it in such difficult times. And the kids of today would probably have not made it.
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
Bravo, Bored Panda! None of these (at least for me) was a rerun! Good job!
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