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#2

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

Final score:

684points

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Boudica 3 years ago

Stunning!

248points

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

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

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

#3

My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951

Final score:

656points

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Tacocat 3 years ago (edited)

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

316points

#4

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

Final score:

651points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

What a great photo!

268points

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

#5

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

Final score:

650points

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Tash 3 years ago

what a gorgeous smile!

334points

#6

My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s

Final score:

642points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Goodness, what a beauty.

376points

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

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

#7

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

Final score:

631points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Aaand still protesting dress code!

419points

#8

Two Pals (1920)

Final score:

624points

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Alexia 3 years ago

The doggo's face is adorable :)

261points

#9

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

Final score:

611points

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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago

You can feel the fabulousness radiating from this photo

606points

#10

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

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

Final score:

610points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

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

254points

#11

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

Final score:

608points

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Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago

She looks so happy.

279points

#12

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

Final score:

586points

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Stephen Branley 3 years ago

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

283points

#13

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

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

Final score:

577points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Aw this is adorable. Both miss their front teeth hahaha.

313points

#14

Sisters In Skirts, 1950s

Final score:

575points

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ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE 3 years ago

Wow they're so gorgeous 😍

353points

#15

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

Final score:

548points

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Alexia 3 years ago

Wow, she's a badass

241points

#16

My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964

Final score:

535points

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Rose the Cook 3 years ago

Beautiful, she looks so young though.

147points

#17

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

Final score:

505points

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KJ 3 years ago

They look so young.

260points

#18

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

Final score:

502points

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NsG 3 years ago

Wow, what an incredible picture

285points

#19

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

Final score:

499points

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NsG 3 years ago

Like an in-camera version of Photoshop.

259points

#20

This Is Hazel, My Grandmother-In-Law. 1916

Final score:

497points

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Laura1985 3 years ago

She is stunning!

274points

#21

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

Final score:

488points

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Watching 3 years ago

That's pretty darn cool.

207points

#22

“Our Michael”, 1938

Final score:

476points

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Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago

He look like a boss....

221points

#23

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

Final score:

472points

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Andy Acceber 3 years ago

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

543points

#24

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

Final score:

464points

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Boudica 3 years ago

Beautiful pic 😍 Sorry for your loss x

243points

#25

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

Final score:

439points

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Maren Gärtner 3 years ago

RIP brave boy

185points

#26

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

Final score:

439points

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SentimentAndBadJokes 3 years ago

What a beautiful women, and a gorgeous girl

191points

#27

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

Final score:

431points

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Krs10Hall 3 years ago

This is SO cool!!

150points

#28

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

Final score:

428points

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Fish Boden 3 years ago

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

247points

#29

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

Final score:

427points

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NsG 3 years ago

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

199points

#30

Vintage Photo From A Family Album, Freeport, Il

Final score:

415points

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Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago

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

197points

#31

Me And My Best Friend Rocky Watching TV, 1959

Final score:

385points

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Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago

Such a great, simple photo.

69points

#32

Ladies At A Lesbian Club In Chelsea, 1953

Final score:

380points

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Soap 3 years ago

Fabulous

159points

#33

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

Final score:

374points

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Amanita Virosa 3 years ago

I love them Mom's cap. My Gran had one too.

145points

Seabeast 3 years ago

I didn't think they still made those caps, but I saw some for sale at a pool in France a few years back.

13points

Michigan Guy 3 years ago

imagine thinking to yourself: i don't mind sharing the same ocean with THOSE PEOPLE, but i surely won't stand for sharing the same sand with them, for god's sake. Er. what???

38points

Michigan Guy 3 years ago

anybody we demonize. not just race...

11points

Auntie Kiki 3 years ago

That kid in the middle though! So relatable to anyone who has one of those kids who hates getting photographed!

26points

Gina Babe 3 years ago

That's what I was thinking

1point

Cathleen Cummings 3 years ago

LOVE her bathing suit! Beautiful family.

24points

Molly Reece 3 years ago

I adore mums bathing suit! Wish that style would come back!!

13points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

Me too! And the style with the little skirt

2points

Rebekah 3 years ago

What a cute fam.

11points

Nugget 3 years ago

Great swimming trunks. Actually,great swimwear all round!

9points

Molly Reece 3 years ago

Very classy!!

3points

Sportsgal 3 years ago

Oldest son...why am I here?!?

5points

California Jones 3 years ago

Middle kid reminds me of my brother. Always complains about going to the beach. (and getting pix taken).

3points

Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago

Such a lovely photo... and then there's the brothers hamming it up. LOL

3points

Dani Alexander 3 years ago

So wholesome

2points

Black Karen 3 years ago

The girl is absolute gorgeous.

2points

shado 3 years ago

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1point

Ella Blackwood 3 years ago

What an adorable family! The looks on the two boys' faces just cracks me up!

1point

Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago (edited)

The middle one look disgusted

1point

A B C 3 years ago

Well, teenagers have been doing silly faces since ever on pictures, haven't they? 😅

16points

Leigh Garrison 2 years ago

Love moms cap, kids from, kids are funny in photos!

0points

Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

LOL, always one child that has to make a face. Cute picture!!

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Tom Markham 2 years ago

What a beautiful photo!

0points

Pollywog 2 years ago

I love mom's suit and the cap!!! There's always the one kid...... This is an awesome family photo!!!

0points

PVR 2 years ago

Love the fashions.

0points

Mimi M 2 years ago (edited)

Beautiful family. Glad that they likely lived to see the end of that awful policy.

0points

Sherry Harvey 2 years ago

A very handsome family. It’s awful they faced open discrimination then. Thank God laws changed.

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Charley Harward 2 years ago

that kid in the middles face tho

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Finnsya 2 years ago

I've enjoyed going to this beach 🏖️ with my family for years! Had no idea it had a history of segregation. Still, seems like the family had a good time.

0points

Heather Wright 2 years ago

The little boy in front is ripped! He's got more muscle than his dad!

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Janet Graham 2 years ago

Nice family photo.

0points

Keilana Ferenczy 2 years ago

All the children's faces are just... on point.

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Alison Duncan Murphy 2 years ago

I love baby brother's swim pants! It's so sad to see strong, Black families knowing they were doing well and moving upward until the Democrats, who had been pushing them down since they stepped foot in this country, gained enough power to put them on a path of destruction that remains to this day. Knowing that Malcolm X predicted this in his speech "The Ballot or the Bullet,” delivered on April 3, 1964, at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, “you put them (Democrats) first and they put you last, cause you’re a chump, you’re a political chump,” still infuriates me to this day. He and MLK were powerful voices for blacks and the democrats couldn't allow their voices to be heard which is why he was assassinated 9 months later in February of 1965 and MLK, Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

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Kristina Thomas 2 years ago

I know that face. My brother did it or something similar in every photo during his entire preteen years. The kid is just being silly because he doesn't want to pose for a photo. He's not actually sad.

0points

Redwood Rebelgirl 2 years ago

Beautiful family! 💗 (Sorry for whatever's going on with older brother!)

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Tymek Marcinkowski 2 years ago

Mostly?

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Science View 2 years ago

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0points

Ella Blackwood 2 years ago

What a cute family! I love how expressive they all are!

0points

Corn Pone 2 years ago

Why is the one kid not happy? Maybe he doesn't like the beach?

0points

Kristen Adorno 2 years ago

They’re a beautiful family!

0points

Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

I love the middle boys expression!

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sharron lynn parsons 3 years ago

What a lovely family, makes me happy for them, a segregated beach, about time, they are people, who just happen t o be a different color, God made them, as he made , all of us, they deserve to enjoy life, God bless then, and all people

0points

Mumof1 3 years ago

Love this photo - the boy's face!

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Bernadette Jamieson 3 years ago

What a handsome family.

0points

Sue Clifford 3 years ago

I like the little boy, he looks so happy until the teenager who really doesn’t want to be there..

0points

Bernadette Jamieson 3 years ago

Beautiful looking family.

0points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 3 years ago

Beautiful family x

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Donald Holder 3 years ago (edited)

Some people just don't like taking pictures. I have a brother like that. I have a couple thousand pictured over the last 60 years of family vacations, holidays, school and you will be hard pressed to find one with him smiling or not making weird faces in them.

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Sandy Kavanaugh 3 years ago

A well to do family, too!

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Zelda Jones 3 years ago

Reminds me of some of my family's photos. We had a big family, so there was always someone pulling a silly face.

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Mairlady 3 years ago

They had the most awful swim suits back then!

0points

Sandra Gould 3 years ago

Oh yes, I remember bathing caps. I thought they were to keep your hair dry, but they were used at pools to keep hair from clogging up the drains, as well.

0points

LiuLiu 3 years ago

nice looking family!

0points

Maja Lange 3 years ago

That's a mighty young life guard!

0points

Mike Ray 3 years ago

I bet I know why it was called 'Chicken Bone Beach'

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Auntriarch 3 years ago

Same reason as the train I'm guessing

-1point

Tami 3 years ago

There's always one...

0points

Rob Woodman 3 years ago

He’s not actually wrong though. Look it up.

1point

Suzy the observer 3 years ago

They do look happy despite...

0points

Rob Woodman 3 years ago

Despite? It was actually pretty cool. Research it a little—I’d much rather have been down in that area...seeing Sammy Davis Jr and the Mills Brothers etc...way more cool.

1point

Dani Ra 3 years ago

I want to know what made the daughter make the face she is making

0points

Eunice Probert 3 years ago

I'd guess that the sun is in her eyes.

5points

Black Karen 3 years ago

Um... shes smiling.

1point

Rob Woodman 3 years ago

She’d actually just been raped by a white man. Or five. It explains everything. Idiot.

0points

#34

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

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369points

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ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE 3 years ago

They're even more attractive now than they were then

308points

#35

Young Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1909

Final score:

368points

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Karl Baxter 3 years ago

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

244points

#36

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

Final score:

367points

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K Witmer 3 years ago

She's the beautiful version of kim Kardashian

212points

#37

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

Final score:

360points

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hyperunknown 3 years ago

.. and 4 Rings of Power were given to the Baker's and Hurff's

245points

#38

Police Officer Unaware Of The Imminent Danger, Chicago, 1959

Final score:

360points

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Kookamunga 3 years ago

Hey, this was my Reddit post!

239points

#39

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

Final score:

345points

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Jo Morris 3 years ago

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

282points