Rare Historical Photos That Make The Past Come Alive (38 PICS)

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This Crayola box that also looks wildly different:

And this old McDonald's coupon that's likely from the '60s that proves not everything has changed:

This old Elvis-branded shampoo someone found from 1985:

This 1940s list of rules for new mothers that includes not smoking or handling any phones an hour prior to nursing:

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These old food coupons and stamps:

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Aaaand this $57 bill for a birth in 1940:

This "desirable weight according to height" table from 1959, which does not seem right to me:

This 1939 vacation ad downplaying Hitler's threat:

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This headline from a 1940 paper:

And this 1908 postcard that casually has swastikas on it:

This old note people found when pulling off the old wallpaper in their new home:

These old medicines that look more like poison:

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This 1919 bill of sale for a Ford car that came out to $325:

And finally, this old note from a 1908 autograph book:



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Lavonne 1 weeks ago
#33 Those are not swastikas. they are a Hindu good luck symbol. swastikas are rotated 45 deg
       
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Elizabeth 1 weeks ago
Lavonne,

that's completely wrong and the name of the symbol isn't "good luck symbol" but indeed "swastika". Get your facts straight.
       
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Johannah 1 weeks ago
Elizabeth,
The swastika as a symbol of prosperity and good fortune is widely distributed throughout the ancient and modern world. The word is derived from the Sanskrit svastika, meaning “conducive to well-being.” It was a favorite symbol on ancient Mesopotamian coinage. It wasn't a symbol of evil till the Nazis took it over.
       
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Reginald 1 weeks ago
Johannah,

That's exactly what Elizabeth said
       
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Mamie 1 weeks ago
#19 Better still would have been a pic of the box from 1937, when Kraft first introduced their boxed mac and cheese dinner.
www.bookofjoe.com/2021/07/kraft-boxed-mac-n-cheese.html
       
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Nicey 1 weeks ago
Mamie,

Love that stuff! Got me thru college in the 80's and was about $0.25 a box.
       
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Edythe 1 weeks ago
#15 there are a couple of Palm Pilots there, they were PDAs, never phones
       
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Tal 1 weeks ago
Edythe,

And I'm not sure I would agree with "quick change". There is about 50 years of mobile devices there.
       
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Arie 1 weeks ago
#29 it's the averages at the time and is very accurate. Go visit the titanic museum and see how small people were back then. People weren't overly tall and obese as today. Lack of exercise and altered foods contribute to this
       
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Gilbert 1 weeks ago
#35 The three in the middle are not medicines, they are for artists. Windsor Newton is still in business and makes high quality paintbrushes and other art supplies.
       
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Cedric 1 weeks ago
#30 THATS an Uranium glass

#33 a nazi swastika is mirrored and rotated 45 deg

But the important Part is "mirrored"
       
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Elizabeth 1 weeks ago
Cedric,

you're wrong. The nazi symbol is a swastika rotated 45 degrees, nothing more. What you are referring to is a sauvastika (in hinduism) and as nothing to do with the nazi symbol.

Get your facts straight.
       
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Elizabeth 1 weeks ago
#10 you mean first name?
       
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Rollo 1 weeks ago
#26 na zi privileges
       
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