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50 Lesser-Known Historical Pics That Remind Us About The Days That Will Never Return (New Pics)
We often take for granted that we can literally record everything from what we ate for breakfast to a lunar eclipse on our phones. For most of history, this would have to be done from an artist's memory or, later, with a not at all cheap or accessible camera.
The aptly named “Old Historical Photos” Facebook page is dedicated to exactly that, sharing cool pictures taken in the past. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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#1
A Sweet Photo Of A Brother And Sister. Charlottesville, Va, C. 1916
Joshua David 9 months ago
Cute for sure. What is troubling is KNOWING the prejudices these babies lived through.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
Jesus, what is wrong with my eyesight? I read it as "A sweet potato of a brother and sister".
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#2
In March 1936, A Mother From Alton, Hampshire, Captured The Spirit Of Rural British Life In A Simple Yet Enduring Scene: Walking To The Shops With Her Children And A Pet Sheep In Tow
#3
Man Listening To His Walkman While Playing Pac-Man, The Ultimate 1980s Experience In One Photo
Joshua David 9 months ago
I got me a vintage 80s Members Only and a leather recently released version. Love them.
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PunchinelloTX 9 months ago
I’d love to go back for a day, but not as a kid, as a grown up. Just for a day to watch it all flash by like neon.
Vintage photos have a unique ability to captivate people, drawing them into a world that feels both distant and strangely familiar. They offer a window into the past, allowing us to see how people lived, dressed, and interacted long before our time. There is something fascinating about looking at a moment frozen in history, whether it is a black-and-white portrait of a serious-looking family, a candid street scene from the early 1900s, or a faded Polaroid from the 1970s. These images provide a tangible connection to the past, making history feel real and personal in a way that words alone often cannot.
One of the biggest appeals of vintage photos is their ability to evoke a sense of mystery. When looking at an old photograph, especially one without context, people are left to wonder about the lives of those captured in the frame. Who were they? What were they thinking at that moment? What happened to them afterward?
#4
A Woman From 1903 Getting Photographed For The First Time
Bobby Edler 9 months ago
Per the comments....her eyes are like that because the exposure took 20 to 30 seconds. People posing were told...don't move , don't blink....it would be a blurr
Imjust jim 9 months ago
And people question whether pictures steal your soul. She knew what was happening.
#5
A Stagecoach Crossing A Bridge In Silverton, Colorado In 1890
Pyla 9 months ago
To speak in the western vernacular: they tain’t no t’other way ‘round.
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Pyla 9 months ago
How to say you played Oregon Trail without saying you played Oregon Trail.
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#6
Elizabeth Taylor, Here With Her Brother, Howard Taylor In 1937
Pheebs 9 months ago
Nicest compliment I ever received as a teen was a nice, older gent telling me I had Elizabeth Taylor eyes. I loved her early movies as a kid, so it was such a great thing to hear as an insecure kid.
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Robert Trebor 9 months ago (edited)
Howard 1929-2020 - Dame Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011 / In 2000, she was appointed a Dame Commander in the chivalric Order of the British Empire in the millennium New Year Honours List by Queen Elizabeth II
Rebecca O’Donnell 9 months ago
Beside the extraordinary color of her eyes, she also had double rows of eyelashes. Elizabeth Taylor was always my #1 in everything. She had a lot of courage, standing up for people with AIDS and raising millions for research. She also stood up to the heads of studios. First actress to get $1,000,000.00 for her role in Cleopatra.
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
All ready to become a screen star. She knows how to work a camera.
Unlike modern photography, where almost every image is accompanied by captions or explanations, vintage photos leave much to the imagination. This sense of curiosity keeps people engaged, turning each picture into a small historical puzzle. There is also a certain aesthetic charm in old photographs. The grainy textures, faded colors, and imperfections give them a character that modern digital images often lack.
#7
George Harrison With His Cat
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
Only if the cat were called Hairy Krishna. Which it may well have been.
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#8
A Great Depression Christmas Dinner In Home Of Earl Pauley, Near Smithfield, Iowa, 1936. The Dinner Consisted Of Potatoes, Cabbage And Pie
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Give Trump enough time and that will be most Americans holiday dinner
#9
Watler Davidson Posing On His 1907 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle
Some people are drawn to the artistic quality of older photography, the way light and shadows play differently, the careful composition, and the way subjects were posed with a sense of formality that is rarely seen today. Even the wear and tear of aged photos, such as creases and discoloration, add to their charm, serving as physical evidence of the passage of time.
#10
In The Late 1800s, A Squad Of Samurai Stood As A Symbol Of A Fading Era, Captured During A Time Of Immense Change In Japan
Eric Gill 9 months ago
Prft .mess with someone like that and you deserve your beatdown
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#11
Roland, A Colossal Elephant Seal Tipping The Scales At Two Tons, Receives An Unlikely Spa Treatment – A Snow Bath
Joshua David 9 months ago
Hows about not capturing the baby in the first place so it can live a full life the way the universe intended it to. Sick.
ManuelQue 9 months ago
1930 in Berlin. Yep, "Ripped from the waters of the Southern Ocean..."
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Here's 5'1" Míriam Colón Next To 6'7" James Arness
Beyond personal nostalgia, vintage photos also serve as a way to understand social history. They capture fashion trends, daily routines, and even historical events from the perspective of ordinary people. They remind us that every era has its own culture, challenges, and beauty. Looking at these images can create a bridge between generations, helping people see the past not just as a series of distant facts but as a world filled with real people who laughed, loved, and lived just as we do today.
#13
Elizabeth Montgomery. Sam Doing The Laundry
Scott Rackley 9 months ago
She was cute, especially with the nose twitch. Endora stole every scene she was in though.
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
And Uncle Arthur. My family still calls any nosy person a "Gladys Kravitz."
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Featherytoad 9 months ago (edited)
Man, I wish I had those powers. Guess what American would find themself in the arctic at a wiggle of my nose. Clue=he's a specific color of the rainbow.
PunchinelloTX 9 months ago (edited)
I had the pleasure of working with her on a tv film as she was battling her first bout with cancer. The kindest, wittiest woman… funny, bawdy, gentle, brave and thoroughly lovely. I was a nobody at the time (and am again…lol) and she treated me as if I were important, chatted with me, sought me out. I adored her. Her partner (later husband) Robert Foxworth (of Falcon Crest fame) was also a true gentleman.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Well, folding fitted sheets does indeed require magical powers, I've found.
Nikole 9 months ago
I wouldn’t give a cráp about laundry if I had those powers.
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Valeria Muckitt 9 months ago
I could see Reese Witherspoon playing this role. Well, in her youth.
#14
James Stewart And His One And Only Wife Gloria
st4x2gt974 9 months ago
Imagine jimmy stewart talking to his babies in his jimmy stewart voice. “Awe c’moooon. Quit your belly-achin”
Major Harris 9 months ago
WW2 combat veteran as a bomber pilot. he flew 43 missions over europe and stayed in the air force reserve. he even flew a mission over vietnam in a B52 and retired as a brigadier general.
Bi.Felicia 9 months ago (edited)
An amazing man, truly a BAMF. ETA- He spent from 1941-1947 in the Army and from 1947-1968 in the Air Force. Fought in both WW2 and Vietnam.
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PunchinelloTX 9 months ago
Gloria Stewart was a gifted comedienne, too. They were a beloved couple.
Valeria Muckitt 9 months ago
Boys, boys, boys. My dream in another life. A father's dream in every life.
Marlene Ricker 9 months ago
Jimmy has always been my favourite movie star! His family was lucky to have such a special Dad!
#15
Charging An Electric Car Back In 1905
Marla Singer 9 months ago
There have been electric cars forever. Too bad the petroleum lobby managed to suppress them for so many decades.
David 9 months ago
Average Electric car back then took 18-24 hours to charge and had a 15-20 mile max range, and high rate of battery fires. Edison did create a 100 mile range car that took only 48 hours to fully charge without the fire risk, but at the year of its launch, the battery cost the same as a model T, within a few years, as Model T prices dropped, it was 3 Model T's to the cost of the battery alone, which is why it failed. Electric cars back then, were not truly viable, with high battery chemical fires, low range, and long charge times
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
@David, there's pretty much no such thing as a lead-acid battery that catches fire. Yes, if you overcharge one you can develop hydrogen gas which can catch fire but won't with good ventilation. The batteries themselves? Big lumps of: lead, lead salts, and sulphuric acid of variable dilution (depending on the state of charge); the batteries themselves couldn't catch fire, not unless they'd been made with an inflammable casing. Lithium batteries are a much more dangerous technology - they can and do catch fire. On top of that: of course you could charge an electric car quicker than 18-24 hours back then, *IF* you had access to a suitable electrical power source. Electric cars were made in large numbers and were extremely practical - the 110 mile range car used Westinghouse motors (i.e., Edison's big rival). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Electric_(automobile) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle#1890s%E2%80%931910s:_Golden_age
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 9 months ago
The electric car industry then was killed by the petroleum companies.
bodhisayumi 8 months ago
What did Musk do that's so bad? He's getting rid of fraud and waste government spending isn't he? Why is that a bad thing? Most of our foreign aid wasn't going to other countries, it was going into people's pockets. The Dept of Education is obviously failing our children. That started when Bush started the horrible No Child Left Behind bs. This is a honest question. Why do you see it as something bad?
In a time when millions of digital photos are taken and forgotten every day, vintage photographs stand out because they feel more deliberate and precious. They remind us that every captured moment once mattered deeply to someone and that each image, no matter how old, carries a story worth remembering.
#16
We Had The Best Of Times Growing Up, Free To Roam As Kids Should, Out With Your Mates, Not Sat In Front Of A Screen Wasting Your Young Lives Away
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Bored Seb 9 months ago
Just a friendly reminder that the people who claimed to have this beautiful free roaming Young life are the one who raised the génération with screen they are crticizing :)
S P 9 months ago
Just s friendly reminder children perished or vanished more frequently due to lack of supervision. Also, contemporary private businesses don't want unsupervised kids around and we keep defunding public spaces where young people don't have to spend money to pass the time like libraries or parks. But, you know, it's the darn screens that are the problem.
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cugel. 9 months ago
I had free range as a kid (70s).... we got up to things you probably don't want to celebrate.
Caroline Nagel 9 months ago
The 1970's were fantastic to be a growing. I loved watching tv as a kid, but there was no daytime tv, and we had no such things as tablets or smartphones. Not in Belgium or the Netherlands anyway so we were more or less forced to entertain ourselves, and there was sooo much we could do, the choices were endless.
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Purple light 9 months ago
Yeah great times: getting bullied every day because you were bad at sport. Nerdy me was so happy with her first computer.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Absolutely the best of times - oh, that sweet coal smoke-scented air! (still, they had better food than many these days)
M B 9 months ago
There were practically no laws on pesticides...you don't want to know what people were putting in their mouth (or it had to be self grown...but even then, pesticides were used)
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Soton_Sherpa 9 months ago
Dying from preventable illnesses... oh sorry, that's today's anti-vaxers!
Panda Kicki 9 months ago (edited)
My friends who died while roaming free in the 70.s and 80.s beg to disagree about the romanticism of unsupervised kids
Don't listen to me 9 months ago (edited)
I'd guess much earlier that the 1970s, we had colour film already by then. Could be 1950s, but with gas lamps & all that pollution it could even be pre-war. Doubt the food was better then or especially there in such a poor neighbourhood.
#17
A Postman Emptying A Very Small, Very Rural Box Near The Llanberis Pass In Eryri National Park
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
Eryri is better known as Snowdonia. Also, that's a George V logo, I believe, so this is sometime prior to 1936.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
Eyri is the official name now, and it's better known to the locals as Eryri rather than the English term. "Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri " in Cymraeg 🏴, "Eryri National Park" in English. Although what with me being an awkward bugger, I'm sticking with the obsolete name when I'm outside Cymru. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia#National_park
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Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Yr Wyddfa to the locals (Yr Wyddfa Mawr according to one source - the great tomb). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon
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Ace 9 months ago
Snowdonia, for people of a certain age. Only recently has the Welsh name become more commonly used.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Snowdonia has long been the name in English, only the Welsh name Eryri has always been used by the Welsh in Wales - why use a foreign word when you've got a perfectly good one in your own language?
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Hmm - maybe. Only: the national park in question wasn't established until 1951. George VI died the following year - the Royal Mail van shows GR on the side for George, not his daughter Elizabeth. A date on the photo would be good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia#National_park
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
They don't change the livery instantly. We're still using ER post-boxes and stamps.
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Despite Often Playing Big, Scary People In His Career, Richard Kiel Was Well-Known For Being A Very Kind And Friendly Man Who Was Friends With Many People He Worked With
Peeka_Mimi 9 months ago
I saw both Bond films he was in and quite frankly he scared the c**p outta me as a kid.
Eastendbird 9 months ago
My partner met him in 1977 when he was 10 years old. He shook Richard Kiel's hand and he remembers his hand was ENORMOUS! And that he was very polite and sweet (his words!).
John Ambrose-Hemmingway 9 months ago
Lived down the street from him for many years and knew him well.
#19
A Taste Of Joy: A Glimpse Into Family Meals In 1940s Claiborne County, Tennessee
G A 9 months ago (edited)
Lots of good simple healthy food. Contrast to the cheap processed rubbish pushed on people by multinationals now.
Ruthie R 9 months ago
Lots of childhood TB, polio, rickets - ah, the good old days. Don't worry though - RFK Jr seems keen to reintroduce all those wonderful old-fashioned diseases in the USA.
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Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
Cornbread, deer and potato stew, corn mush, homemade pickles, stewed turnips, and what looks to be turnip greens on the bottom left (barely visible), with well water to drink. For those curious.
Scott Rackley 9 months ago
In Tennessee those are likely rutabagas. They grow better than turnips here. I think the bottom left is pintos and the middle left either turnip greens or collards. Most likely turnip greens or rutabaga greens, don't waste a thing.
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Norma Jeane In 1945, Before She Became The Famous Marilyn Monroe
G A 9 months ago
Amazing what a diet and a hair do will do to change an image. She looks so sweet and natural here.
Richard Graham 9 months ago (edited)
Also, Marilyn Monroe had had plastic surgery. Specifically, a cartilage implant in her chin and a slight rhinoplasty on her nose. Her plastic surgeon was Dr. Michael Gurdin.
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bodhisayumi 8 months ago
She was so much prettier(though still stunning)as her all natural self. She once wrote that she longed to be a wife and mother. Such a sad life for such a kind and beautiful woman.
st4x2gt974 9 months ago
Is it any wonder that Truman Capote had wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly? Who better suited for the role than the actress living the part.
#21
Typewriters In School 1970
G A 9 months ago
Still like it in the 80s, before computers became popular. We had a typing room with desks that rotated with big old typewriters bolted to them.
CatD 9 months ago
I was still using my dad's 30lb underwood for typing in the 70s. If you typed too fast, the keys would stick together.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 9 months ago
Took typing in 83', they were all manuals. One of the best classes (read: most useful) I took. Still touch type about 70-80 wpm now. Freaks some people out when you turn to talk to them and don't stop typing and answer their questions.
BP Aunt C 9 months ago
Yes. Always 💚 it drives my momma crazy with jealousy lol
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 9 months ago
I can still feel the keys, hear the carriage return, and ding. Best class I ever took, I've used my typing skills in every job I've ever had and every year of my life since '70-'71,
Valeria Muckitt 9 months ago
The ribbon was the bane of most, but I LOVED changing it when I was a kid.
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Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
We had to learn typing around that time. I remember they used to put on a record with some corny music on it and you had to type along to the voice intoning the letter to type
Mark Alexander 9 months ago
I took typing in college. I got an incomplete. I only took it so I could punch my COBOL code punch cards better. Get off my lawn.
Rose the Cook 9 months ago
Those are fairly modern typewriters much better than the old clunkers Australian high schools were still using in the 60s.
#22
Raquel Welch, Born On September 5, 1940, Was An American Actress And Cultural Icon Who Rose To Fame In The 1960s
Chewie Baron 9 months ago
She didn’t like being on Graham Norton’s New Year’s Eve show one year.
Auntriarch 9 months ago
The Muppets show was my favourite, when they talked her out of doing Shakespeare
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#23
"Little House On The Prairie" Is A Beloved American Television Series That Aired From 1974 To 1983, Based On The Autobiographical Book Series By Laura Ingalls Wilder
Verena 9 months ago
What did her classmates think of her, or other kids? Can't be easy at that age to play the baddie...
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The Starsong Princess 9 months ago
According to their autobiographers, they are lifelong friends and consider themselves close as sisters.
Panda Kicki 9 months ago (edited)
If you have read the more thruthful "Pioneer Girl" by same writer you get a new view. The dad lied and got in constant debt, they had to flee from debts, stay at dangerous places, she was almost r***d by a visitor, lots of drunkeness, dead siblings and much more. "The little house" is more "inspired by" actual events then any kind of biography.
Bryn 9 months ago
They should also read Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Load More Replies... Valeria Muckitt 9 months ago
My eldest brother would call me "Laura Ingalls Peace Chile Injun" whenever I wore braids. In fact, everyone called me Laura Ingalls.
Joanne Earle 9 months ago
I am delighted that they were instant friends when they met, and would have sleepovers every weekend and work out new fights b/t Laura and Nellie. They are still besties to this day. The really ironic thing is that Alison was the one supporting her whole family (her much older brother was a child star in the 50s/60s) and was from modest means, while Melissa was adopted into Hollywood 'royalty' and brought up in luxury.
bodhisayumi 8 months ago
LHOTP was such a great show. Every episode had a "moral of the story." We could really use that again in today's society.
Sharon Ingram 9 months ago
I read somewhere that her characterization of Nellie cost her future roles because she played her so well.
#24
Mendon, Utah, 1940
Marlene Ricker 9 months ago
We had a little corner store too where we would go with our pennies and buy penny candy. With a nickel, you get a bag of candies if you shopped right. Lots of the candies were 2 or 3 for a penny!
Bi.Felicia 9 months ago
Are we looking at the same picture? None of them look dirty nevermind filthy. Actually the smallest, probably youngest girl is dressed in almost all bright white and I don't see any stains of anything. All exposed skin appears clean and they all have brushed/styled hair. Just because their dresses aren't down to their ankles or below their knees, doesn't mean that they don't fit them properly. The only slight thing I see that fits your comment is the lighting and quality of the film/photo makes the dress on the girl in the middle look sorta splotchy. Btw, I didn't downvote you but it seems like there's quite a bit more than usual going on lately.
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Depression-Era Portrait Of A Working-Class Couple, 1930s
Joshua David 9 months ago
This man is gorgeous. I love seeing him here and it is pretty often he appears. Hey gorgeous 😆
tb92w5649d 9 months ago
They're both pretty well-groomed for depression-era struggling folk. She looks lovely and he's pretty dapper. Are we sure this isn't from a movie set or something?
#26
An ‘Ice Man’, Delivering A 25lb Block Of Ice In 1928, Houston, Texas
Rose the Cook 9 months ago
I remember those blocks of ice. Our family were the last in our Sydney neighborhood to get a fridge,. Last to have a washing machine and TV too.
#27
Early Use Of A Selfie Stick In The 1940s
G A 9 months ago
Probably used to prod the button on a camera on a tripod-maybe even a cord, rather than a selfie stick.
Peter Bear 9 months ago
It is a stick. Being used to take a picture of one's self. Therefore, a selfie stick.
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Dr Jimmy 03 9 months ago
More resembles a cord tied to a self-timer release on the camera. Yeah, I'm that old.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Is it a stcik? Yes. Did it take a selfie? Yes. Therefore it is a selfie stick
Joanne Earle 9 months ago
I wonder who that family was and where they lived. And if the home is still in the family.
#28
Paul Newman And Joanne Woodward 1958
Scott Rackley 9 months ago
My grandmother had a thing for Paul Newman. She said he was the prettiest man who ever lived. Pretty sure he was her "hall pass"
Caroline Nagel 9 months ago
He was very handsome! He and Joanne Woodward were married for 50 years!
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Jnausicaa 9 months ago (edited)
Paul Newman was a gunner in the rear turret of a TBF Avenger during WWII. His pilot came down with an ear infection and the plane and crew had to wait it out at Pearl Harbor while the aircraft carrier went off to Okinawa. A kamikaze hit the ship and Newman's entire squadron were unalived. Paul had incredible survivor's guilt and PTSD for years. He said that Joanne helped him through it. My mother was named after her.
talliloo 9 months ago
family story: got up one morning & found my mom & her best friend drinking coffee in the kitchen. that was kind of normal but they looked so beat up - hair a mess, pants & shirts dirty - and they were laughing their butts off. seems that they were filming cool hand luke nearby & they got the idea after they put the kids to bed to try to sneak over where they were shooting to catch a glimpse of paul newman. they said they got caught when they were sneaking through the bushes but it was an adventure. we used to call mom & her friend lucy & ethel because they got into fun crazy things at times.
#29
In 1939, A Photograph Taken Near Spiro, Oklahoma, Shows The Challenging Life Of An Agricultural Day Laborer Family Living In A Tent
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
For those curious: Everyone here would work in the fields during harvest time. Yes, even the kids. Living in a tent like this was easier on everyone, as it meant they could be directly adjacent to the fields they were working to harvest. It wasn't a permanent thing though. Rather only during the harvest season. They're getting about 45 cents an hour, which doesn't sound great, but considering the average factory worker's 'minimum wage' (note this predated that being official, but something similar did exist then), was 30 cents an hour... they're actually not as bad off as you'd think. A "day laborer" in this context, simply meant that they were paid at the end of each work day, as opposed to being paid at the end of a week like regular workers.
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
Day labor is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available the next day or in the future.
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Becky Samuel 9 months ago
People seem to think that this sort of day labor is a thing of the past, but a whole bunch of crops still rely on being harvested by hand by workers who move from site to site and live in temporary accommodations.
CatD 9 months ago
Except now, the owner of the fields charge the workers for staying on the land overnight.
Load More Replies... Nikole 9 months ago (edited)
I wish I had the power to kíll trump and his cronies with the power of my mind. It would save countless lives.
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Bartlet for world domination 9 months ago
Clean clothes and a bath for everyone on picture day!
CatD 9 months ago
Of course, Trump will just send more people to prison to use as slave labor because of the lack of migrant workers.
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Nikole 9 months ago
It’s happening again as trump took a billion dollars away from that program
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The 87 Year Old Woman In This 1924 Photo Is Mrs. Laura Hawkins Frazer, Better Known To Fans Of Mark Twain As The Inspiration For The Becky Thatcher Character In His Books
Savannah greenleaf 9 months ago
I would think so. I went there years ago.
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#31
The Good Life
Igor914624 9 months ago
I am from Texas and I loved this program. I always thought Felicity Kendal was beautiful.
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Caroline Nagel 9 months ago
Such a great show, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington were so funny as their neighbours. They stole the show really.
Chewie Baron 9 months ago (edited)
Penelope Keith as Margot Leadbetter, their next door neighbour was just perfection.
Lorraine R 9 months ago (edited)
Felicity's first attempt at homemade bread: she pulls a loaf the size of a hassock out of the oven and muses, "Hmm, I must have used too much mixture." Hubby comes in, sits at the table demanding lunch, so she plunks the loaf down in front of him. He looks at it, looks at her, asks, "And what are you having?"
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
This was filmed near where I lived, in Northwood, Middlesex. I actually cycled past them while they were shooting the scene where Barbara needs a penny for the toilet, and Tom has given his last one to a flag seller. The toilet is no longer there - it was outside Northwood Hills station.
Jnausicaa 9 months ago (edited)
Rosemary and Thyme with Pam Ferris. They also solved mysteries on the side.
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Mrs. Bill Stagg Drawing Water From Her Well, Which Is In Enclosed Porch In Her Log House. Pie Town, New Mexico... New Mexico, 1940
Dr Jimmy 03 9 months ago
For a long time it was customary for wives to be introduced as "Mrs. Bill Smithxxx..." I do not miss the custom, though I do find it amusing when I'm occasionally introduced as "Mr. (my wife's name.)
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OpheliaPoe 9 months ago
It's in something of a remote area but they use the name to their benefit and have a Pie Festival every year in September. I haven't been there but have driven through two nearby towns: Datil and Quemado. "Towns" in that part of NM are very much blink and you miss it type places.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 9 months ago
Not shown: Mrs Stagg chopping wood to heat the water and take a sponge bath. And do the laundry.
Valeria Muckitt 9 months ago
Modern day Yakutia. Humans have lost touch with nature and have lost their way.
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New York City After A Snowstorm In 1888
David 9 months ago
electrical wiring, to get electricity in your house, you had to pay one of the companies, and they would string wires from their pole into your house to connect it up. Overtime to create less wire clutter, cities created local electric monoplies like in NYC we have Con-Ed, etc.
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Brian Droste 9 months ago
They probably had to wait until it got warmer out for all that snow to melt. As far as I know they had no way to get rid of that snow.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
That storm was the impetus for NYC putting all the wire underground.
Lorraine R 9 months ago (edited)
Must have been March 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888
Rich Black 9 months ago
This just in: 1 million people are without electricity because of downed power lines . .
#34
The Rolling Stones Young
Norm Gilmore 9 months ago (edited)
We all know Keith takes other artists life force when they pass. There can be only one...I especially like the last line- In a statement, Richards confirmed his intention to behead Justin Bieber, not because he’s an immortal but because he ‘can’t stand the little s****e’. ://newsthump.com/2016/04/25/keith-richards-undergoes-the-quickening/
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J Finley James 9 months ago
Sitting is drummer Charlie Watts,on the bench is Mick Jagger lead singer,to his left is Keith Richards guitar,on his right is Bill Wyman bass and standing is Brian Jones,every other instrument and lead guitar.
Kit Black 8 months ago
Rock and roll life was not kind to famous musicians named Brian...
Load More Replies... Dr Jimmy 03 9 months ago
Mods were much, much better dressers. Vastly more in tune with Fashion.
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#35
Robert And Jane Mceuin Are Seen Standing Together On Their Farm, In Front Of Their Cabin Near Choctaw City, Oklahoma Territory, Around 1895
bodhisayumi 8 months ago
At some point in time, every place was taken over by another. It's human nature.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
So you don't mind if I take over YOUR place? No problem then.
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Olivia Hussey, 1968
Peeka_Mimi 9 months ago
Until this comment I didn't realize she had passed.
Load More Replies... Mgtow Smurf 9 months ago
I loved her in Romeo and Juliet 1968 movie. RIP Olivia; what beauty. ♥♥♥
#37
The Comfortable Living Room (1930)
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Listening to a radio drama or a news program. Look at the size of that radio!
Roland C. 9 months ago
They had to be big. The circuits were made up of multiple vacuum tubes about the size of small candles and they gave off a fair amount of heat. Transistorized pocket radios only came out in the 50s.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 9 months ago
Turn off the radio. You'll ruin your ears. And there's nothing good on anyway.
Marlene Ricker 9 months ago
I remember gathering around the radio Saturday mornings to listen to The Lone Ranger, The Happy Gang and others. Good times!
Richard Graham 9 months ago
Who remembers? This photograph (colorized and slightly animated) was used as a screen saver (named "The Golden Era") in an early version of Windows.
Aura Aura 9 months ago
Great no TV or cell phones just cozy togetherness-better then than now.
Laura Deckers 9 months ago
Reading a newspaper is not that much different than "reading" a phone or laptop.
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#38
1964 Worlds Fair
Chuck Freiman 9 months ago
I was there too. Eight years old, visiting from Florida. Had a great time!
Load More Replies... Chewie Baron 9 months ago
This is now the site of the US Open with the Billie Jean King tennis Centre.
David 9 months ago
Um that site is the whole Flushing Meadow Park, including Citi Field, Queens Musuem, the Queens Zoo, NY Hall of Science, and more.
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Pferdchen 9 months ago
When I was 4, my family and our neighbors took the train from DC for a day trip to this. I'm still bummed that all I can remember is packing into the car so early in the morning and being worried that our neighbors weren't on the same train car for the return trip and might be getting left behind. I don't remember a single thing about the fair! 😪
#39
The Late Tony Dow Holding A Picture Of His Earlier TV Self And His TV Family
Skip Reynolds 9 months ago
It was June, not Ward, who made the oft quoted remark.
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realenancy170 9 months ago
I grew up in the 60's. My mother always wore a ðress and pearls like June Cleaver.
PunchinelloTX 9 months ago
Tony Dow, aside from being a decent actor and always known as “Wally” was an exceptional sculptor. He created some lovely pieces. Also a very nice man.
leendadll 9 months ago
Wally Cleaver, from Leave It To Beaver... early 1960s US tv show still in constant reruns
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bodhisayumi 8 months ago
June Cleaver rocked. She was an impossible expectation! She cleaned her house in her beautiful dress and high heeled shoes, of course it was spotless. She took care of her husband and her children with a smile and never once raised her voice. I can't even imagine having her as a role model during the 60's.
#40
In 1939, Dorothea Lange Captured A Poignant Image Of A Young Farm Boy Standing In The Doorway Of A Tobacco Barn In Person County, North Carolina
Robin Roper 9 months ago
I live less than 20 miles from Person County, NC. Tobacco barns such as this one still dot the landscape. I can still smell the smell of tobacco curing; it actually smelled good, not like cigarette smoke.
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
My grandfather grew and cured his own tobacco in Kentucky. He often talked about how wonderful the smell was. Wasn't until many years later that I got to revisit the original farm my family had owned back in the day, and found one of his original tobacco barns still in use, that I was introduced to that smell. You are quite correct. It does smell very good.
Load More Replies... ANGEL BABY 9 months ago
I, a New York City girl would spend her summers in Person County, NC with my grandparents.
#41
In This Unusual Early 20th-Century Glass Negative, A Woman Sits Or Squats On Her Lawn, Holding A Book—an Unconventional Pose For The Era
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 9 months ago
Not likely, given the amount of time back then needed to take this shot and the fact that she is staring into the camera. Candid photos are captured without creating a posed appearance. "The candid nature of a photograph is unrelated to the subject's knowledge about or consent to the fact that photographs are being taken, and are unrelated to the subject's permission for further usage and distribution."
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Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
I'm surprised that BP hasn't censored 'squats', because of the connotations which the word can have.
#42
1917, Miles City, Montana, The Air Buzzing With The Thrill Of The Round-Up
Lorraine R 9 months ago
Split skirts (or "culottes") so they can ride astride.
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Life In Pursglove, West Virginia: A Coal Miner’s Family In 1938
Peeka_Mimi 9 months ago
My Nany was the oldest of 17. They're all gone now except my Aunt Betty.
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CatD 9 months ago
That'll change if the Republicans get their way. Texas is talking about getting rid of no fault divorce too.
Load More Replies... Kit Black 8 months ago
People rarely smiled in photographs then because you have to hold the pose perfectly for longer...
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Denise Marchbanks 9 months ago
My dad came from a family of 13. They were as happy as anyone else. I loved all the built in friends, ie cousins. Both grandparents married very young and didn't divorce. My mom was 17 at marriage, I was 16, and a sister was 17. All still married and not divorced and doing well. God is good!
CatD 9 months ago
Didn't divorce or couldn't divorce? Women often didn't have a choice then.
Load More Replies... Joanne Earle 9 months ago
Kids back then...not really cherished and encouraged to play and learn, so much as put to work as soon as possible.
Laura Deckers 9 months ago
And the oldest girls being made to step up to raise the younger ones.
#44
Young Hollywood Marrieds, Louis Hayward And Ida Lupino, 1939
Michael Largey 9 months ago (edited)
Ida Lupino became one of Hollywood's first female directors. And had to fight d**n hard to be allowed to do it.
#45
Mrs. S.j. Bonner And Her Two Sons Stand As A Poignant Example Of The Struggles Faced By Working-Class Families In The American South During The Early 20th Century
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
I'd love to know how come she's got that hat and a fabulous overcoat, but the boys have no shoes. Then again, I expect the coat was bought many years ago, and growing children need new shoes far too often especially if you're short of cash.
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago (edited)
Mourning clothing for her. In 1800s Southern US, mourning traditions involved specific clothing practices, with widows expected to wear all-black attire for extended periods, often with veils, and jewelry featuring black jet or hair of the deceased, as a public display of grief. Most likely, her husband died, and she's still in the mourning period, which lasted a minimum of two and a half years.
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bodhisayumi 8 months ago
You just had to stick your political opinions where they don't belong didn't you.
Load More Replies... Guin Johnson 9 months ago
When we were kids (NO, NOT in the depression), we got new shoes at the start of their school year, and at Easter. Most of the time we ran barefoot, and our feet got tough. Im imagining the same for these guys. Barefoot in the south, anyways, was fairly normal for kids.
Joanne Earle 9 months ago
There was a lot of hookworm in those days from going barefoot everywhere.
#46
Phil Daniels Is Jimmy Cooper, In One Of My All-Time Favourite Films.... Quadrophenia (1979)
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
So many mirrors! There was a lot of reflection in those times.
Ace 9 months ago
Did he? He did a lot of other great stuff over the years. I remember him well opposite Hazel O'Connor in 'Breaking Glass' and it's his dulcet tones doing the talky bit on Blur's classic 'Parklife'.
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#47
This Was The Height Of The Sex Pistols’ Raw, Rebellious Energy, Just Before Everything Unraveled
#48
Yoakum, Texas, 1910
#49
Heavy Traffic Downtown Atlanta Ga 1940s
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
They had them. They were located on the street corners, or attached to the light poles.
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#50
The Chelsea Bridge Rockers, A Group Of Motorcycle Enthusiasts Known For Their Rebellious Spirit
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
That photo's on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker_(subculture)
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
- I've met that photo before in a different context somewhere. I think the be-quiffed man in the middle, standing against the bridge, was a named and notable character (memory tells me all of them did arrive their on their motorcycles). I suspect I got it from a book somewhere because I can't find his name on-line from that photo, but alas about half my books are currently in storage.
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