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History is one big treasure box full of unforgettable moments, incredible people, encounters, places, events, incidents, you name it. But with time flying at the pace of a hadron collider, they easily slip under the dusty blanket of time and oblivion.

Thanks to this incredibly entertaining Instagram page titled “Lost In History,” though, many of these rare moments that got captured on camera were dug up from the past and brought to the present time. Dedicated to 20th-century people and culture, the account is sharing pictures with its 1.2M followers that illuminate history in this entirely new perspective.

Psst! After you're done reading this one, don't forget to check out our previous feature with more "Lost In History" pics.

#1

"My Parents On Their Wedding Day In 1964 And Then Again At Christmas 2021"

"My Parents On Their Wedding Day In 1964 And Then Again At Christmas 2021"

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    Simone Segouin, Mostly Known By Her Codename, Nicole Minet, Was Only 18-Years-Old When The Germans Invaded

    Simone Segouin, Mostly Known By Her Codename, Nicole Minet, Was Only 18-Years-Old When The Germans Invaded

    Her first act of rebellion was to steal a bicycle from a German military administration, and to slice the tires of all of the other bikes and motorcycles so they couldn't pursue her. She found a pocket of the Resistance and joined the fight, using the stolen bike to deliver messages between Resistance groups. She was an extremely fast learner and quickly became an expert at tactics and explosives. She led teams of Resistance fighters to capture German troops, set traps, and sabotage German equipment. As the war dragged on, her deeds escalated to derailing German trains, blocking roads, blowing up bridges and helping to create a German-free path to help the Allied forces retake France from the inside. She was never caught. Segouin was present at the liberation of Chartres on August 23, 1944, and then the liberation of Paris two days later. She was promoted to lieutenant and awarded several medals, including the Croix de Guerre. After the war, she studied medicine and became a pediatric nurse. She is still going strong at 96.

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

    I was dreading a gruesome death. So happy that she's still here! Amazing

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    #3

    Hattie Mcdaniel Accepting Her Oscar In A Segregated "No Blacks" Hotel In Los Angeles For Her Role In Gone With The Wind

    Hattie Mcdaniel Accepting Her Oscar In A Segregated "No Blacks" Hotel In Los Angeles For Her Role In Gone With The Wind

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

    Why is this so far down on the list? How was this ever allowed? Humans can be so awful to each other.

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    “Photographs bring history to life in an immediate and visceral way,” Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures, told Bored Panda in a previous interview.

    Yaszek explained how it’s different from exploring history through written sources. “When we read books, we get lots of detailed information about historical events: who was involved, where the event happened, what factors led to and resulted from it, and so on.”

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    German Anti-Nazi Political Activist, Sophie Scholl, Was Executed In 1943 For Leading Non-Violent Student Resistance Against Hitler

    German Anti-Nazi Political Activist, Sophie Scholl, Was Executed In 1943 For Leading Non-Violent Student Resistance Against Hitler

    She was 21 years old. Her last words: "How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?"

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    This Is A Photo Of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, A Polish Doctor Who Saved 8,000 Jews By Creating A Fake Typhus Epidemic In Stalowa Wola (Nazi Occupied Poland), 1943

    This Is A Photo Of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, A Polish Doctor Who Saved 8,000 Jews By Creating A Fake Typhus Epidemic In Stalowa Wola (Nazi Occupied Poland), 1943

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    Holocaust Survivor And The Soldier Who Rescued Her In 1944

    Holocaust Survivor And The Soldier Who Rescued Her In 1944

    During World War 2, John Mackay was part of the Scottish commando unit that rescued a group of prisoners from the Nazis as they were being marched from Auschwitz to another concentration camp. Little did he know that amongst the prisoners was a young Hungarian woman by the name of Edith Steiner. He would see her again at a dance, which was organized to celebrate the liberation. John asked a friend to ask Edith if she would dance with him, but she sent his friend back with the message that she would only do so if he asked her out himself. So John worked up the courage to go up to her and ask her in person, and she accepted. In 1946, they married and returned to Scotland where they owned and operated a small hotel in Pitlochry before retiring in Dundee. After celebrating their 71st Valentine's Day together, Edith passed away in June of 2017, just three weeks before their wedding anniversary. She was 92 years old.

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    “Sometimes such information can be vividly detailed and prompt us to imagine what historical events might have looked like in ways that make us feel more connected to them, but sometimes we are so overwhelmed with dry or technical details that we actually feel more removed from the event than ever before,” the professor explained.

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    #7

    An Iconic Image Showing Aboriginal Rights Activist, Gary Foley With A Sign Reading, “Pardon Me For Being Born Into A Nation Of Racists”, 1971

    An Iconic Image Showing Aboriginal Rights Activist, Gary Foley With A Sign Reading, “Pardon Me For Being Born Into A Nation Of Racists”, 1971

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    This Is Shavarsh Karapetyan, A Retired Armenian Swimmer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ In 1976, He Had Just Completed A 26 Km (16 Mile) Run When He Heard A Loud Crash

    This Is Shavarsh Karapetyan, A Retired Armenian Swimmer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ In 1976, He Had Just Completed A 26 Km (16 Mile) Run When He Heard A Loud Crash

    A trolleybus had lost control and had fallen into a reservoir. It was 25 meters (82 ft) off-shore and had sunk to a depth of 10 meters (33 ft).⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Karapetyan immediately dived into the sewage-infested waters and managed to kick the back window of the trolleybus with his legs, despite zero visibility from the silt that had risen from the bottom. Of the 92 passengers onboard, Karapetyan pulled out 46 people. 20 of whom survived.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The combination of cold water and the multiple lacerations from glass shards led him to be hospitalized for 45 days. He developed pneumonia and sepsis. While he was able to recover, damage to his lungs prevented him from continuing his career as a swimmer.⁣⁣

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    #9

    This Is Franca Viola, An Italian Woman Who Became Famous In The 1960s For Publicly Refusing To Accept The Twisted Tradition Of Marrying Her Rapist

    This Is Franca Viola, An Italian Woman Who Became Famous In The 1960s For Publicly Refusing To Accept The Twisted Tradition Of Marrying Her Rapist

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

    Her father supported her. She went public with her story and got lots of support.

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    Yaszek argues that even when shot by the most amateur of photographers, these images have a unique effect on our modern minds. “These images of people living in and through various moments in history provide a sense of immediate emotional connection—we think, ‘wow, so that’s what it would feel like to experience that moment of history!’” Yaszek explained.

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    This Is Margaret Ann Neve At Age 110 In 1902.⁣ ⁣ She Was Born In 1792 And Died In 1903, Making Her The First Proven Person In Recorded History To Have Lived In 3 Different Centuries

    This Is Margaret Ann Neve At Age 110 In 1902.⁣ ⁣ She Was Born In 1792 And Died In 1903, Making Her The First Proven Person In Recorded History To Have Lived In 3 Different Centuries

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    #11

    Lena Baker Was A Black Maid That Was Put On Trial For The Killing Of Her White Employer Earnest Knight For Trying To Rape Her

    Lena Baker Was A Black Maid That Was Put On Trial For The Killing Of Her White Employer Earnest Knight For Trying To Rape Her

    Though she claimed self defense, she was sentenced to death by an all white male jury. Her trial only lasted one day! Sitting in the electric chair, this is what she said: "What I done, I did in self defense or I would've been killed myself. Where I was, I could not overcome it. I am ready to meet my God''. She was executed on March 5, 1945 as the only woman ever executed in Georgia. She left behind 3 children. Her last words, along side with her picture are displayed near the now-retired electric chair at a museum at Georgia state prison in Reidsville. She was Pardon 60 years after her Murder.

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

    Poor woman. Sentenced to death by an all white male jury, doesn’t surprise me.

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    #12

    Iranian Woman In The Era Before The Islamic Revolution, 1960

    Iranian Woman In The Era Before The Islamic Revolution, 1960

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    Interestingly, by looking at historical images, viewers may develop an emotional bond. “Once we feel an emotional bond with the people in historical photos and perhaps even begin to imaginatively empathize with them—we forge new intellectual connections to history itself, asking ourselves: ‘Why are the people in this photograph in this situation in the first place? What happened leading up to this photo—and what happened afterward?’,” Yaszek told us.

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    This Is 18-Year-Old Alice Roosevelt And Her Long-Haired Chihuahua Named Leo In 1902

    This Is 18-Year-Old Alice Roosevelt And Her Long-Haired Chihuahua Named Leo In 1902

    She also had a pet snake named Emily Spinach who she would wrap around on one arm and take to parties. Alice was extremely independent and unlike many women of her time, she was known to wear pants, drive cars, smoke cigarettes, place bets with bookies, dance on rooftops, and party all night. In a span of 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls and 407 dinners. A friend of Alice’s stepmom once remarked that she was “like a young wild animal that had been put into good clothes.” Her stepmom went a step further and described her as a “guttersnipe” that went “uncontrolled with every boy in town.” William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft’s wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly no record of the joke exists) about him in public. Her father, Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her. During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a “hedonist.” She died in 1980 at the age of 96.

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    #15

    Bob Ross With His Pet Squirrels, 1991

    Bob Ross With His Pet Squirrels, 1991

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

    "Check it out, Sammy! I'm Bob's Moustache!" "For crying out loud, Cyril, You're nuts!"

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    #16

    In 1948, A Man Wore 30-Pound, Three-Toed Lead Shoes And Stomped Around A Florida Beach During The Night

    In 1948, A Man Wore 30-Pound, Three-Toed Lead Shoes And Stomped Around A Florida Beach During The Night

    The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.

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    The Indigenous People Known As The Huichol First Appeared In The High Highlands Of Central Mexico Some 15,000 Years Ago

    The Indigenous People Known As The Huichol First Appeared In The High Highlands Of Central Mexico Some 15,000 Years Ago

    According to their ancient traditions, both men and women would experience the pain of childbirth. This is how it would be done, the father would position himself on the rafters with rope tied around his scrotum while the mother would pull on it while giving birth.

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    Facial Prosthesis For A Wounded Soldier Of The First World War, 1916

    Facial Prosthesis For A Wounded Soldier Of The First World War, 1916

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

    My gran worked as a nurse in the UK during the late 20s in a hospital for returned soldiers, in the ward dealing with injuries like this.... A lot of them could never return to their families because their injuries were so horrific... Most Sundays she would bring my mum and my aunty to the hospital gardens to play, so the patients could watch from the balcony, and experience at least a trace of a normal life they could never experience ...... Still breaks my heart when I think of it, how much damage the human body can take and still go on.... My gran was my fkn hero!!

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    #19

    A Lion Walks Alone In The Desert

    A Lion Walks Alone In The Desert

    This is a 1925 photo of possibly the last Barbary lion in the wild before its extinction. It was taken by French photographer Marcelin Flandrin while he was onboard a flight on the Casablanca-Dakar air route.

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    #20

    Feminist Vandalism, 1970s

    Feminist Vandalism, 1970s

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

    Sentiment still stands. Hands off our bodies. It makes me want to puke.

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    86-Year-Old Lao Huang, A Cormorant Fisherman Living In Yangshuo, China

    86-Year-Old Lao Huang, A Cormorant Fisherman Living In Yangshuo, China

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    Dolly Parton At Home In Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, 1960s

    Dolly Parton At Home In Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, 1960s

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    Studio Photos Of A Lesbian Couple, Early 1900s

    Studio Photos Of A Lesbian Couple, Early 1900s

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    Hanukkah In Kiel, Germany, 1932

    Hanukkah In Kiel, Germany, 1932

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

    There's a story behind that menora. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/europe/menorah-hanukkah-germany.html

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    Safety Standards In 1960s

    Safety Standards In 1960s

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    Don't you wish you knew
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I have seen this one before. The angle of the picture makes it look super scary, but they actually are not that high off the ground.

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    #26

    On September 30th, 1956, During A Drunken Argument In A New York City Bar, A Man Named Thomas Fitzpatrick Claimed He Could Fly An Airplane From New Jersey To New York In Under 15 Minutes

    On September 30th, 1956, During A Drunken Argument In A New York City Bar, A Man Named Thomas Fitzpatrick Claimed He Could Fly An Airplane From New Jersey To New York In Under 15 Minutes

    To prove himself, Fitzpatrick left the bar, stole an airplane from a New Jersey airfield at 3am, flew without lights or radio completely intoxicated, and landed the airplane in the street in front of the bar.

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    Photograph Of Two Women Kissing Captioned "Um-M! That Kiss! Guess I Still Love You! Jus' Can't Help It!", 1930s

    Photograph Of Two Women Kissing Captioned "Um-M! That Kiss! Guess I Still Love You! Jus' Can't Help It!", 1930s

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

    Pictures like this show LGBTQIA+ is not a new thing. You know, in Ancient Greek times, if there was a hole, there was a goal!!!! Search up Sappho too.

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    The Lovers Of Valdaro Were Two 6,000-Years-Old Skeletons Who Appeared To Have Died In A Lover's Embrace, Face To Face With Their Arms And Legs Entwined

    The Lovers Of Valdaro Were Two 6,000-Years-Old Skeletons Who Appeared To Have Died In A Lover's Embrace, Face To Face With Their Arms And Legs Entwined

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    Ryan Reynolds Back In 1983 Holding A Dead Fish... With His Fly Open

    Ryan Reynolds Back In 1983 Holding A Dead Fish... With His Fly Open

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    Office Life Before The Invention Of Autocad And Other Drafting Softwares

    Office Life Before The Invention Of Autocad And Other Drafting Softwares

    Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares. Even after all the manual labor, if a change was required, the engineers and toolmakers had to start from scratch and make the sketches all over again. Nowadays, architecture designers and other drafters are mainly just clicking their mouse and keyboard and not hunched over on a giant desk wondering if any changes will be made to their final drafts.

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

    If I could get in a time machine and go back to the age before computers - I wouldn't.

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

    It wasn't as difficult as this picture suggests. I did manual drafting for nearly 20 years prior to switching to CAD and never had to work in this awkward way. We had tilting adjustable drawing boards, not flat tables. We weren't using t-squares either.

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

    My mum used to work as a tracer on this stuff, her job was to make copies of the plans they only way they could easily do it - tracing over the original on thin paper. My sewing weights are plan weights she.. uh.. borrowed.. from work.

    🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think “just clicking their mouse and keyboard” massively understates what designers do and can achieve today.

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

    My mom did this as a twenty-something year old, did so well at it that Boeing offered to double her pay so she wouldn’t quit when she got married. She quit anyway, was a great mom to me and my sister, finally divorced our dad and went back to drafting using CAD. She was brilliant at this method, too, and only stopped working when cancer came along. The corporation she was working for put her on leave, continued paying her full wage and kept her insurance up to support her until the day she died.

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

    This is how I worked my way through undergrad. It could be tedious, but it beat flipping burgers. Being left handed, the worst was doing ink lettering - I had to work from bottom right to upper left to avoid smearing.

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

    As a fellow lefty who started graphic design studies in the mid-90s, I hear you! By the time I left Uni it was all computer-aided tough, thankfully.

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

    I worked in drafting for almost two decades prior to CAD and we had drawing boards that tilted to the angle you wanted, with Vemco drafting machines. I've never seen a drawing office where you had to use a flat board and t-squares. These people look more like they're reviewing drawings than working on them.

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

    Yes, the lack of drafting machines seems to confirm this. I come from a time when "Mechanical Drawing" was a requisite course for an engineer. I was always pretty terrible at it.

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

    My grandmother did this! She was one of the first women (and POC) to become a drafter during WW2, in San Francisco, CA. All the men being gone meant these companies desperately needed people in the work force, so they started offering free school/training to pretty much anyone available. My grandmother saw a flier and ran home to tell her mother about the amazing opportunity. The problem was, you had to bring your own supplies, and they were so poor they couldn't even afford a pen. Her mother said if she could find a way to save up for a pen she could do it. Not only did she get a pen, she got hired after the training. There is a really cool photo of her in one of these kind of offices, where is is surrounded by men. She past last year, and I inherited her drafting table which I now use for my own work.

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

    Wow! How fortunate you must feel to have inherited her table. Thank you for sharing your grandmother's story!

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

    Did this for years at Western Electric, and A T & T., in the 50’s & 60’s

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

    This was the fate of so many aspiring architecture and engineering students. Only a few ever escaped to do real work.

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

    Robert they're doing the real work right there in the photo. I know. I've been in the business for decades.

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

    Mine was the last class at University that learned on drafting velum and drafted all our projects by hand. I learned Autocad on the job at my first place of employment. These days I find the drafting quality put out by architects and interior designers to be atrocious. It used to be you had to actually sharpen a pencil before you drew a line or an arrow or anything else.

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

    I actually enjoyed this kind of drafting when I was learning it in college. The transition to AutoCAD had already happened, but they still made us spend a couple terms with pencil and paper. It's why I hand sharpen my pencils to this day.

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

    There was something very satisfying about it, though. Our Tech College had all the mice of the CAD on a tight leash on the right. A bugger when you were left-handed. I spent more time practising moving it accurately than doing proper work for the first week or so.

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

    Picture makes my back ache, just looking at it - - -

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

    We did practice our lettering, and admired some people's lettering skills.

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

    Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982 engineers used to work 40 weekly hours on average. Today they work 60 weekly hours on average. Technologies make people free!

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

    My dad was a draftsman in the 70s and 80s. His charts of drawings, with labels, measurements, and hand-written notes are meticulous and beautiful.

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

    Well, there were better drawing tables then these things. I still learned drawing by hand even though there were computers and programs already. Even 3D. I think even new apprentices have to still learn by hand. First pencil, then special pens. It‘s fun doing it by hand too. Still got all my drawings from my apprenticeship and before that. I loved it. (Yes I learned on computers too. CATIA V5 was the most known program I learned. Airbus used to use that one. Don‘t know how it is now). Never learned AutoCAD, most of my classmates did though.)

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

    My grandfather still worked this way in the early 80's - he had a home office and I used to watch him work

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

    Drafting was a course in my high school (1968). My best friend was the only girl in the class, and she loved the work.

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

    I work as a hydraulic engineer at a Swedish company (we previously had the same name as a shoe company..) that used to make hydraulic operated drafting/architect tables. We still get requests for spare parts but apart from some O-rings, we sadly have nothing to supply. Apparently these tables can bring in some good money if in good condition.

    Bang bang estás liquidado
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I get it... Brutalist style makes sense now... They just wanted to be done and take a break!

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

    My grandfather was an architect and I always wondered why his elbows had awful calluses on them. This explains it!

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

    "General office policy: No bean lunches within the working week. Again: NO BEAN CONSUMPTION, EVER"

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

    My back hurts. And not because I'm feeling sympathy for these people.

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

    I took a couple of drafting classes, and our school didn’t have access to AutoCAD. It was pretty hardcore. Hats off to these guys.

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

    I started my first job in 1986, the drawing office was just like this, except that some of the architects had desks with adjustable slopes so they didn't always have to work on the flat

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

    They forgot to mention the "slide rule", the calculator of the day.

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

    I did both drawings and used CAD in the early 90s. Must admit, it was time-consuming typing the x.y.z, and (at that time) preferred drawing by hand, lol.

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

    I see only men there, I can imagine if only one woman works there.

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

    Lots of women worked there. They were typists. The pretty one was the receptionist.

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

    I'm lucky enough to have a draughting class in my secondary education. First year focused on CAD and manual work, everything from second-year afterwards is all CAD.

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

    Doesn't fashion still use these methods - drawing on paper and cloth, full-size?

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

    I am female, and so glad I was not born any earlier than I was, now 70 and I wanted to take drafting in high school, but wasn't allowed to. Later in my 30's I went back to a techincal college and became a Mechanical Designer aka drafter, my work started with paper and pencil, thank God I went back to night school and learned CAD. I found that I still had a lot of men treat me as office help, even though I graduated with honors. Sad how women were treated, I hope that has changed more but have no proof of it for sure. Loved both kinds of drafting, but working with my hands was really more fun.

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

    Don't forget the refillable colored ink felt markers, and the sheets of letraset....letters, numbers, symbols that you could rub off, and the layers of tracing paper to show overlays, the carbon paper for copies, The Blueprint machine for large reproductions, and the Gesetener for letter size pages. My father's architect office was the best place to play!

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

    There’s no way I could do the drawings I do if it weren’t for CAD

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

    the board would be standing propped up on a special device

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

    My dad was an architect and used to pay me 5p per drawing to do the colouring of the electrical sockets etc. It was all done by hand. I loved it. He did a master copy!

    Annette Griffiths (crazyknitter22)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bloody hell! My dad was a draftsman for an architect but they had proper drafting tables. Sometimes when my dad had to work a little longer so after a shopping trip in the city we would go to the office and my dad just gave me paper and sat me at a drafting table and let me draw. It was fun. Sadly, because AutoCAD was on the horizon and my dad was one of the highest paid workers he was made redundant in 1978. Back in about 1954 draftsmen were really in short supply, my dad was an excellent artist and so they pushed him into this job, despite he was short sighted. He wanted to become a teacher but that would have meant more years in school not earning anything and his parents just saw the money that a draftsman would make. My dad would have been an excellent teacher. So he ended up with bad eyes and a job in retail where he quickly ended up as the office manager.

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

    I wish there was more info on this pic. Year? Company? Country? Where’s all the cigarette smoke?

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

    I used to have an electric eraser used by engineers. It was heavy and awsome.

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

    We cartographers also drew with rapidograph pens which had different points/line weights, the ink can clog and they would easily stick into the ceiling tiles when thrown. lol I'm really old...

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

    I remember having to learn how to do those engineering sketches in middle school! I do not miss those days. And now I’m feeling incredibly old. Guess I’ll grab my walker and toddle over to Cracker Barrel for my supper since it’s 4 o’clock.

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

    that was where I was headed. Halfway through College I learned of Ancient civilizations that constructed the Colosseum. Did you know those columns are slightly off center. Each was rotated slightly to make sure they would stand the test if time. By rotating in this manner the wall of volumes had basically tuned I to an archway! Did they have computors?

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

    My grandad showed me a picture of a jet engine that he had hand drawn when he worked as a draftsman for a British defence company. It was amazing!

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

    I started my career doing this, we used to say "Don't draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon."

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

    My mother, Florence Hatch, worked for an engineering company in Los Angeles when auto-cad came out. Her official title was "keypuncher" leftover from when the days when she had typed onto those punchcards that said, "do not fold spindle or mutilate." Very few engineers wanted to learn the computer, they thought of it as the equivalent of typing, which was "women's work." so they would describe to her what they wanted to draw, and what changes they needed, and my mother, a woman in her 60's, would do their autocad drawings for them. They still paid her like a keypuncher, though.

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

    I'm a hero among my young friends: my secretarial career started at a desk with a heavy manual typewriter, a supply of carbon paper and a rubber eraser with a little broom on it. (No Wite-Out yet). Oh, and a glass ashtray.

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

    All indoor jobs looked about like this, whether engineer, typist, or sewer. I wonder if it was easier to make friends.

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

    CAD existed before AutoCAD (though that was very influential). See "history of CAD software" on Wikipedia. I did a course in technical drawing around 1983. My teacher was scornful of CAD! My dad did a lot of technical drawing by hand. I have a moderately amusing anecdote about his drawing board if anyone's interested!

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

    Well in the early ninetees it was still done like that, next to AutoCAD. I used AutoCAD 12.0 and my .1 .3 .5 .7 pens on large paper and drawing board.

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

    I remember these days…I woulrjed at the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal. There was a room just like this one in the NASA buildings

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

    Did not always have to start from scratch, there were graphic ways to communicate new changes.

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

    One would think that these guys could get tilting draft tables!

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

    I miss drafting halls. The smell in there of clay and graphite, wood and paper, with just a twinge of rubber.

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

    I learned drawin in 1988 in this way. i am stll glad to have leaned it that way.

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

    The most notable thing is that they all look alike, dress alike, clones. No women, no people of color. Just middle aged white men.

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

    My husband still draws his blueprints this way. What they don't mention or show in this picture is all the coke lines.

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

    That's exactly how I learned and was certified, then went back to college and learned AutoCAD.

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

    Maybe Y'all should visit Kenya's UoN and see this old-age photo in modern times

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

    In MY drafting days (in Ireland, 1960 - 1981) our boards , of similar size, were mounted on tilting/ elevating pedestals, with Drafting machines which replaced the T-square, Setsquares AND Protractors.

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

    Yup, that's what I did for work. One of the few women in Holland, like my mom and aunt.

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

    My dad worked as a draftsman in the mid 60s. he brought home smaller drawings occasionally to work on. I had to take a college drafting class in 1969 for engineering. I did not have drafting in high school as girls were not allowed. I'm also left handed. It was a struggle, but I passed.

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

    Not to mention, they were all required to wear a dress shirt & tie, plus have a suit coat ready for meetings.

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

    Hey Joe, I’m gonna wear my white shirt & black tie & pants tomorrow, wanna join?

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

    I designed homes on a drafting board right up to 2019. Some of my clients had the plans and elevations framed.

    ThePalm52
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this comment, "architecture designers and other drafters are mainly just clicking their mouse and keyboard". No brain work involved. That's what most people think about graphic designers and actually, a lot of untalented people who have computers now think they are graphic designers. Bozos.

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

    Seems really ancient now, doesn't it, and it's only 40 years ago.

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

    I came along as CAD software became more affordable. I remember drawing by hand and then slowly transitioning to AutoCAD 13. Today's software is so much more than just generating a simple view or “just clicking their mouse and keyboard”. A properly generated 3-d model can give you so much data. This type drafting was a real bottle neck when it came to engineering things. I would never go back to pre CAD.

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

    I struggled with CAD when I was learning it in school in the early 2000s because it was the combination of 2 things I was not good at: drafting and computers. In somewhat related news, I changed careers in the mid 2000 and I am actually ok with computers now 😹

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

    Command Z/Control Z changed the freaking world!!! Unsung hero of life as we know it.

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

    But you could make copies on a type of tracing paper so you didn't need to do it all from scratch

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

    A friend of mine is a graphic designer with a fine arts degree. He has his own business and had to switch from doing layouts by hand to using computers. There was a learning curve but luckily he managed to master it.

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

    Just clicking away 🙄 whether it’s drafting by hand, CAD, 3D drafting or flipping mime, it’s all just a way of communicating a design. The drawing is not the end of it!!!

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

    Was taught technical drawing and engineering at school - everyone had to do it for 2 years, as well as the boys doing cookery/domestic science....this was in the 60's.

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

    I used to want to go back to the Little House on the Prairie times because it seemed so simple and people cared about their neighbors. As I got older I got use to the modern invention's I'm not so sure. But I've always wanted to be a mom and wife in the '50's. I love the time period and the clothes. These poor folks look like they were having a lot of back, hip, and knee trouble as they aged.

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

    Also apparently the age before tilting desks, or easels. Oh no hang on they had those in the Renaissance

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

    could you reach the top of that size of paper on a tilting drawing board? they have to be flat for that size of paper.

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

    I worked on something very much like this on the night shift at Cape Canaveral for NASA - there were small changes necessary to the drawings that I was assigned to make. Very interesting looking back now.

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    #31

    In 1938 Bruce Mozert Took The First Underwater Photos And They Are Brilliant

    In 1938 Bruce Mozert Took The First Underwater Photos And They Are Brilliant

    Bruce invented the world’s first underwater camera, and it was at Silver Springs, Florida where he would put his invention to renowned use.

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    In The Olden Days, Santa Claus Would Gather Up Naughty Children, Toss Them In His Basket And Whisk Them Away To The North Pole To Serve As His Slaves. That’s Where The Legend Of Santas Elves Came From

    In The Olden Days, Santa Claus Would Gather Up Naughty Children, Toss Them In His Basket And Whisk Them Away To The North Pole To Serve As His Slaves. That’s Where The Legend Of Santas Elves Came From

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    An Unemployed Lumber Worker And His Wife In Oregon, August, 1939.⁣ Photo By Dorothea Lange

    An Unemployed Lumber Worker And His Wife In Oregon, August, 1939.⁣ Photo By Dorothea Lange

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    In 1902, A French Company Decided To Make Playing Cards That Imagined "Women Of The Future"

    In 1902, A French Company Decided To Make Playing Cards That Imagined "Women Of The Future"

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

    Really relieved and happy to see this "woman of the future" depiction is a female professional, as opposed to a "sexy space babe." Especially since playing card companies have been (and still are) known to go that direction

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    Three Young Women Eat Spaghetti On Inflatable Mattresses At Island Of Capri, 1939

    Three Young Women Eat Spaghetti On Inflatable Mattresses At Island Of Capri, 1939

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

    As one does on special occasions break out the spaghetti mattress and party.

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    #36

    To Appear Headless While Taking A Photo, Aka "Horsemanning" Was A Popular Way To Pose In The 1920's

    To Appear Headless While Taking A Photo, Aka "Horsemanning" Was A Popular Way To Pose In The 1920's

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    A United States Soldier Holds Up A Giant Jungle Centipede During The Vietnam War, 1967

    A United States Soldier Holds Up A Giant Jungle Centipede During The Vietnam War, 1967

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    In 19th Century England, Wealthy Farmers Would Commission Paintings Of Their Cows, Pigs And Sheep As A Way To Flex Their Wealth And Status

    In 19th Century England, Wealthy Farmers Would Commission Paintings Of Their Cows, Pigs And Sheep As A Way To Flex Their Wealth And Status

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    #39

    Vintage Halloween Costume

    Vintage Halloween Costume

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

    I don’t care if it’s Halloween or not, lf I see this in the middle of the night alone at the street, I am willing sacrifice all my sweets to them

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    Former Beauty Queen, Miss Wyoming Winner 1973 Joyce Mckinney Being Arrested By Police After Kidnapping Mormon Missionary Kirk Anderson From His Church, Forcing Him To Be Her Sex Slave For 3 Days. 1977

    Former Beauty Queen, Miss Wyoming Winner 1973 Joyce Mckinney Being Arrested By Police After Kidnapping Mormon Missionary Kirk Anderson From His Church, Forcing Him To Be Her Sex Slave For 3 Days. 1977

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

    Judging by some of the comments here, society still has a LONG way to go when it comes to taking sex crimes with a male victim seriously.

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    #41

    3,000 Year Old Pair Of Pants Found In China.⁣ ⁣ The Pants Were Discovered In A Tomb In Northwestern China

    3,000 Year Old Pair Of Pants Found In China.⁣ ⁣ The Pants Were Discovered In A Tomb In Northwestern China

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

    They can't (don't want to) produce clothes that last 2 seasons these days.

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    #42

    The Man In The Picture Is Dina Sanichar, Widely Believed To Be Raised By The Wolves

    The Man In The Picture Is Dina Sanichar, Widely Believed To Be Raised By The Wolves

    He was born in India and was found in the deep jungles of Uttar Pradesh by the hunters in 1872. They found him hunting alongside the wolves and noted that he was walking on all four of his limbs.

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    Mexican Actress Maty Huitrón Photographed By Nacho Lopez In 195

    Mexican Actress Maty Huitrón Photographed By Nacho Lopez In 195

    This series was one of the multiple social experiments of the Mexican photographer to understand human behavior. In this case, it was about seeing the average reaction to an exuberant woman, the model chosen was the burlesque dancer Maty Huitron, who would later become an eminence of the performing arts in Mexico. The impact was so provocative that Nacho López's photos were awarded in 1957 by UNESCO, and later exhibited in stations of the Paris and Munich Metro.

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    #44

    The Original Michelin Man From 1898.⁣ The Michelin Man Is White Because Rubber Tires Are Naturally White

    The Original Michelin Man From 1898.⁣ The Michelin Man Is White Because Rubber Tires Are Naturally White

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

    Rubber tires were white before the discovery of adding carbon improving their durability significantly.

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    #45

    Reese Witherspoon With Ryan Phillipe And Their Daughter On The Set Of Legally Blonde

    Reese Witherspoon With Ryan Phillipe And Their Daughter On The Set Of Legally Blonde

    Reese said in an interview in 1998 that she met Ryan at her 21st birthday party. She recalled the moment as embarrassing, saying she went over to Ryan when she was drunk and said “I think you’re my birthday present!”

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

    How did an otherwise educational list of historical information devolve into modern day celebrity gossip?

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    #46

    Bonnie And Clyde's Last Kiss A Few Hours Before They Were Killed, May 23, 1934

    Bonnie And Clyde's Last Kiss A Few Hours Before They Were Killed, May 23, 1934

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

    These Criminals killed innocent bankers just doing their jobs, only lunatics would romanticise them and their acts.

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    #47

    Kate Middleton And Prince William's Post-Clubbing Taxi Pics From The 2000s

    Kate Middleton And Prince William's Post-Clubbing Taxi Pics From The 2000s

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    The Very First Miss Universe Pageant, 1952

    The Very First Miss Universe Pageant, 1952

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

    Look at the exotic globe-spanning localities: Turkey, Norway, Great Britain,.......uh, Indiana?

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    Demi Moore On The Set Of G.i. Jane, 1997

    Demi Moore On The Set Of G.i. Jane, 1997

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

    The date is wrong, the first action movie starring a female as lead was the Hunger Games in 2012.

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    #50

    22-Year-Old Lana Del Rey (Then Performing Under May Jailer) Photographed In 2007

    22-Year-Old Lana Del Rey (Then Performing Under May Jailer) Photographed In 2007

    Discussing meeting her in the same year, record label-owner David Nichtern said “When she first came to us she was playing plunky little acoustic guitar, had sort of straight blonde hair, very cute young woman. A little bit dark, but very intelligent. We heard that. But she very quickly kept evolving."

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    #51

    Victorian Era Bathing Machines From The 1890s

    Victorian Era Bathing Machines From The 1890s

    During this time, women were required to stay fully clothed until they got into a bathing machine in order to change into a swimsuit

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

    Bathing machine makes me think you get in one and a robot washes you.

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    #52

    Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Bert Stern For Vogue, 1962

    Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Bert Stern For Vogue, 1962

    Diana Vreeland, the editor-in-chief of Vogue at that time, kept Marilyn's scar in the original picture. She used to say: "I think there's nothing duller than a smooth, perfect-skinned woman. A woman is beautiful by her Scars."

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    #53

    A Group Of Havana Schoolboys In 1937. The Boy With The Lollipop Is Fidel Castro

    A Group Of Havana Schoolboys In 1937. The Boy With The Lollipop Is Fidel Castro

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

    A little rebellic, aren't we? Guy in the back must have seen it coming.

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    #54

    Star Wars Cast Out Of Costumes:

    Star Wars Cast Out Of Costumes:

    Harrison Ford (Hans Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker). 1977

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

    Must be the German version (Hans Solo) :) - in case it gets corrected, it is misspelled at the time of writing lol

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    #55

    Danish Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen With His First Wife, Navarana Mequpaluk In 1912

    Danish Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen With His First Wife, Navarana Mequpaluk In 1912

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    This Ring Was Found On A Woman Who Was Buried Approximately 1,200 Years Ago In Birka, An Ancient Viking City Located 30 Km (19 Miles) West Of Contemporary Stockholm, Sweden

    This Ring Was Found On A Woman Who Was Buried Approximately 1,200 Years Ago In Birka, An Ancient Viking City Located 30 Km (19 Miles) West Of Contemporary Stockholm, Sweden

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    #57

    Poon Lim Was A Chinese Sailor Who Survived 133 Days Alone On A Raft At Sea By Fishing, Drinking Bird Blood And Killing A Shark With A Jug Of Water

    Poon Lim Was A Chinese Sailor Who Survived 133 Days Alone On A Raft At Sea By Fishing, Drinking Bird Blood And Killing A Shark With A Jug Of Water

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

    what was the shark doing with a jug of water? did the shark need to die for that?

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    #58

    Halloween On The School Bus, 1980s

    Halloween On The School Bus, 1980s

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

    If any one of these kids came knocking on my door to trick or treat, I would hold an exorcism.

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    #59

    Jayne Mansfield Posing With Miss Hollywood Of 1957

    Jayne Mansfield Posing With Miss Hollywood Of 1957

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    The Photograph Of Kurt Cobain In Tears Has Been Extensively Published

    The Photograph Of Kurt Cobain In Tears Has Been Extensively Published

    Tilton watched Cobain smash his guitar through an amplifier and walk offstage. He followed him backstage. The pent-up emotion ‘just had to go somewhere,’ says Tilton, and Cobain burst into tears. ‘What I really love about it is that it is a very real moment and he allowed it. Other artists would have said, ‘Not now, Ian, please.’ It is very unusual,” adds Tilton, ‘for anyone from a band to show such vulnerability.’

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

    This is sad to me. He was obviously hurting and I hope he was offered mental health treatment after this

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    #61

    Meal Service Aboard The Air France Boeing 747 First Class, 1988

    Meal Service Aboard The Air France Boeing 747 First Class, 1988

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

    Flying used to be so fun. Now people barely shower and just wear their pajamas on the plane :/

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    A Tunnel Rat About To Enter A Việt Cộng Tunnel With A Suppressed Revolver, Vietnam, 1960s

    A Tunnel Rat About To Enter A Việt Cộng Tunnel With A Suppressed Revolver, Vietnam, 1960s

    During the Vietnam War, "tunnel rats" became the nickname for any engineers or grunts that either volunteered or were chosen to clear and destroy enemy tunnel complexes

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    Winona Ryder The Night She Met Johnny Depp

    Winona Ryder The Night She Met Johnny Depp

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    Cleaning Women Washing A Crucifix, 1938

    Cleaning Women Washing A Crucifix, 1938

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    #65

    The Golden Gate Bridge Opens To The Public For The First Time, May 27, 1937

    The Golden Gate Bridge Opens To The Public For The First Time, May 27, 1937

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    #66

    “Mermaids” At Disneyland Waving To Guests On A Submarine Ride, 1960s

    “Mermaids” At Disneyland Waving To Guests On A Submarine Ride, 1960s

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

    They are real! No, I mean I remember seeing them when I was little. I thought I imagined it. I feel so much better now.

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    #67

    Teenage Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) With A Friend, 2003

    Teenage Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) With A Friend, 2003

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    People Photographed By Rebecca Lewis At Ozzfest Festival Headlined By Black Sabbath And Slipknot In Milton Keynes, UK, 2001

    People Photographed By Rebecca Lewis At Ozzfest Festival Headlined By Black Sabbath And Slipknot In Milton Keynes, UK, 2001

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    During The Vietnam War, Cannabis Was Consumed Because The Plant Grew In The Wild In Vietnam

    During The Vietnam War, Cannabis Was Consumed Because The Plant Grew In The Wild In Vietnam

    For that reason, many soldiers had their first experience smoking the drug, and it helped them continue fighting, “You get really stoned…. Then, you know, who like, who cares about the war?” Many military leaders also encouraged cannabis consumption when there were problems among their soldiers. Unlike alcohol, which was still the drug of choice, marijuana kept the soldiers mellow and focused, which helped resolve conflicts between men. When the soldiers smoked together, they used an unorthodox method involving a firearm by packing a bowl of marijuana in a shotgun chamber, soldiers smoked long drags together. We do not ever condone attempting this method to smoke.

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    #71

    Lucifer And The Angel He Destroyed — Amy Winehouse And Blake Fielder Civil

    Lucifer And The Angel He Destroyed — Amy Winehouse And Blake Fielder Civil

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

    You can’t blame any one person for someone else’s addiction. It’s a tragedy for all involved and the villain is addiction.

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    Princess Diana's Summer Style. Diana's Laid-Back Linen Separates, Vibrant Swimwear And Throw-On Dresses Made Up One Of The Most Memorable Elements Of The Royal's Always Effortless Wardrobe

    Princess Diana's Summer Style. Diana's Laid-Back Linen Separates, Vibrant Swimwear And Throw-On Dresses Made Up One Of The Most Memorable Elements Of The Royal's Always Effortless Wardrobe

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

    Last time I commented about Diana I got downvoted to oblivion. Sooo. Nice pyramid.

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    #73

    Artificial Intelligence Reconstruction Of Ramses II (1,303 - 1,213 Bc) Based On The Photos Of His Mummified Remains

    Artificial Intelligence Reconstruction Of Ramses II (1,303 - 1,213 Bc) Based On The Photos Of His Mummified Remains

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    This Is A Portrait Of Daniel Lambert Who Was At One Point Considered To Be The Heaviest Person In Human History

    This Is A Portrait Of Daniel Lambert Who Was At One Point Considered To Be The Heaviest Person In Human History

    At the age of 18, Lambert began working as a prison guard and was much respected for his ability to befriend and help rehabilitate many of the prisoners. Despite being physically active, abstaining from alcohol, and not eating large amounts of food, Lambert continued to steadily gain weight. By 1805, he weighed a whopping 700 lbs. (320 kgs).

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    Marina Pierro In Behind Convent Walls (1978)

    Marina Pierro In Behind Convent Walls (1978)

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    Fleetwood Mac Photographed By Annie Leibovitz For Rolling Stone (1977)

    Fleetwood Mac Photographed By Annie Leibovitz For Rolling Stone (1977)

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    "My Dad Coming Off His Ambulance Shift To Come Deal With My Newborn A*s, 1995"

    "My Dad Coming Off His Ambulance Shift To Come Deal With My Newborn A*s, 1995"

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    Dennis Rodman Announcing That He Is Bisexual And That He Is Marrying Himself, 1996

    Dennis Rodman Announcing That He Is Bisexual And That He Is Marrying Himself, 1996

    The stunt was done for the promotion of his memoir “Bad as I Wanna Be”. He arrived in a wedding dress and wearing a wig. Thanks to this his book garnered even more publicity.

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

    I love that Dennis Rodman openly challenged notions of "masculinity" at a time when it was still v unpopular to do so, especially considering that he was an elite athlete.

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    After He Allegedly Slept With 4,000 Women, Mick Jagger Decided To Seek Help With His Addiction

    After He Allegedly Slept With 4,000 Women, Mick Jagger Decided To Seek Help With His Addiction

    His friend Keith Richards also encouraged him to do that. However, once he found a sex therapist, he seduced her and they slept together too. It was featured in Christopher Andersen’s book “Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger” - he has been covering the rock star for more than four decades.

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

    how come he never got in s**t for all the underage kids he took advantage of?

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    #81

    Stylist Andrew Richardson Caressed By A Russian Circus Performer, Photographed By Steven Meisel As Part Of The Madonna Photo Essay ‘Flesh + Fantasy’ For Rolling Stone Magazine, 1991

    Stylist Andrew Richardson Caressed By A Russian Circus Performer, Photographed By Steven Meisel As Part Of The Madonna Photo Essay ‘Flesh + Fantasy’ For Rolling Stone Magazine, 1991

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

    I really thought it was going to be much older than that, stunning picture though.

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    Brigitte Bardot With Some Of Her Friends In Saint Tropez, 1960s

    Brigitte Bardot With Some Of Her Friends In Saint Tropez, 1960s

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    Jfk Jr And Carolyn Bessette Pictured In New York Throughout The 90s

    Jfk Jr And Carolyn Bessette Pictured In New York Throughout The 90s

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    Joaquin Phoenix, New York, 1996

    Joaquin Phoenix, New York, 1996

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

    Another Joaquin Phoenix picture. Just a few days ago, I looked at another listicle with a picture of him doing the washing up. How is this historically relevant?

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    #85

    Gisele Bündchen Unbothered While Peta Protests Against Her Since She Wore Fur, During The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, 2002

    Gisele Bündchen Unbothered While Peta Protests Against Her Since She Wore Fur, During The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, 2002

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

    Uh...shouldnt they be protesting against the designer, not the model? The model doesn't choose what they wear, right? I don't know I don't work in fashion or anything and my closet looks like a typhoon hit it

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    #86

    Jason Momoa And Carmen Electra On The Set Of “Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding” In 2003

    Jason Momoa And Carmen Electra On The Set Of “Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding” In 2003

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    A Look Back At Tom Hardy’s Myspace Picture From The Mid-2000s

    A Look Back At Tom Hardy’s Myspace Picture From The Mid-2000s

    The actors old MySpace ‘About Me’ section read: “I act for a living now adopting characters for money, it is a language I was born into. I’m Grateful, arrogant self centred, tenacious, versatile, honest, honourable, loyal, loving, gentle, consistent, reliable, focussed, prideful, passionate and nuts. I have a head like a disco ball, if I say I’ll do something, unless I absolutely can’t it gets done, I never give up on humanity, I love people. I want to see communities stand up, honest and open, flexing to the fullest of their capabilities and combined usefullness. happy. I laugh at bullies. I am reactionary but I have learned to hold my tongue and my trigger finger.”

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

    What's with these "lost in history" pictures from the 2000s? That's the 21st century, not the 20th.

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    #88

    Salma Hayek Wearing A Hervé Leger Dress At The Premiere Of 'Speed 2: Cruise Control, June, 1997

    Salma Hayek Wearing A Hervé Leger Dress At The Premiere Of 'Speed 2: Cruise Control, June, 1997

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    By David Lachapelle As A Tribute To Guy Bourdin For Vogue Paris, December 1995/January 1996

    By David Lachapelle As A Tribute To Guy Bourdin For Vogue Paris, December 1995/January 1996

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

    Why is she wearing high heels? Can you imagine a woman 9mo pregnant walking into a hospital in those shoes? Honestly this picture has me flummoxed enough I just used the word flummoxed.

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    Scottish TV Presenter Carol Smillie Winning An Award For Rear Of The Year In 1998 (A British Award For Celebrities Who Are Considered To Have A Notable Bum)

    Scottish TV Presenter Carol Smillie Winning An Award For Rear Of The Year In 1998 (A British Award For Celebrities Who Are Considered To Have A Notable Bum)

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    Teenage Robert Pattinson In Cosmoboy Magazine — 2001

    Teenage Robert Pattinson In Cosmoboy Magazine — 2001

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