Curious Vintage Photos From Way Back In The Day (42 PICS)

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

"Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority (1974)"

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

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

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"My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s"

"Two Pals (1920)"

"My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951"

"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"

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

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

"My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964"

"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~"

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"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”"

"Sisters In Skirts, 1950s"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Me And My Best Friend Rocky Watching TV, 1959"

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

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

"Vintage Photo From A Family Album, Freeport, Il"

"Young Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1909"

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

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

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

"Police Officer Unaware Of The Imminent Danger, Chicago, 1959"

"My Taita (Grandma). From 1950’s Beirut"

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"Women Trainees Of The Lapd Practice Firing Their Newly Issued Revolvers, 1948"

"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"

"My Grandpa’s Schoolhouse In Texas Ca. 1930’s. He Was Always Embarrassed Of This Picture Because He Was Too Poor To Afford Shoes"

"Caught On The Firescape, 1946"

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"Dublin, 1962"

"Offerings To The Unknown Dead, Kyoto, Japan, 1963"

"The 70s Transition: My Parents In 1968 And Again In 1970"

"Class Divide In Britain, 1930's"

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"My American Grandmother Visiting Athens In The 1960s"

"Me Ready For Friday Night Lights, 1969"



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Erasmus 1 year ago
#1 Of the four ladies in the middle: On the left: she's tough. Not to be trifled with. 2nd from the left: goofy but will kick you in the balls. Third: do not approach. Highly dangerous (look at her eyes and expression). Fourth: just a cling-on not likely to have steel in her blood.
       
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Tilly 1 year ago
Erasmus, good eye
       
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Bertha 1 year ago
Pretty sure the 5th one has a knife in that long coat, and will use it.
       
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Hal 1 year ago
#11 the japs were okay with colonizing...
       
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Adela 1 year ago
#20
i dont know what i have to say
apriciate my honor
       
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Rosalyn 1 year ago
Now I have to head over to Shorpy's
       
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Hitty 1 year ago
#7 Show Bobs and Vegene
       
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Julian 1 year ago
#8 That horrible temporary dwelling!
       
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Augustina 1 year ago
Julian,
... and the 3 year old kid !
       
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Ned 1 year ago
#1 ""Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940""

right before they were told to get inside because their "home economics" class was starting, today's subjects? ironing shirts and making sandwiches 101
       
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