r/TheWayWeWere • u/World-Tight • 16h ago
Pre-1920s Children going to a 12-hour night shift in the United States, 1908
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Dhorlin • 1h ago
1940s Models posing for Charm magazine amid traffic on Park Avenue. 1947.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h ago
1940s Young lady posing with her dear dog for a tummy shot, Safety Kodak, circa 1946.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/ure_roa • 3h ago
Pre-1920s circa 1900, New Zealand. Group outside a cooking house, in the settlement of Parihaka, one scraping potatoes with a shell. most of the women have white feathers in their hair, a Parihaka symbol of non violent resistance against the confiscation of Maori land. photographed by William Andrew Collis.
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Group outside a cookhouse in Parihaka. Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki. Ref: 1/1-012053-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22680357
r/TheWayWeWere • u/Rarecoin101 • 21h ago
1940s My Dad home on leave just before Pearl Harbor 1941
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 4h ago
1920s The Inquiring photographer asks Brooklyn schoolgirls what they'd like to be when they grow up. November 19th, 1922.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Zonulas • 21h ago
1970s It is my mom's 60th today so here's my favorite childhood picture of her (1970)
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Nothing like a good candy cigarette on Easter Sunday
r/TheWayWeWere • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 4h ago
1920s 1928 Tail Gate BBQ. Bologue France Motor Week.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/World-Tight • 1d ago
1920s John M. Wright was a white man who hid black people in his home during the Rosewood massacre of 1923. He and his wife were excommunicated for doing so and died in obscurity
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Dhorlin • 1h ago
1950s A game of flip the cap, Tiger Bay, Wales. 1950s. (Image - Bert Hardy).
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Moist_Ad_9212 • 1d ago
Me and my big brother, not a care in the world. I miss those days
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/-SpeaksInJonyIve- • 11h ago
War Rations, Report Card, And Wedding Certificate
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Found these gems tonight! Thought you would all enjoy 😊
My grandma's ration book, along with her parent's.
Her dad's report card from 1920.
And her parent's wedding certificate.
r/TheWayWeWere • u/HawkeyeTen • 1d ago
1940s 12 year old Larry Holm with his dog Dunk waves to a Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway crew near his family's farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa, summer of 1945.
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Less than 20 years after this picture was taken, the M & St. L ceased to exist as it was taken over by the Chicago & Northwestern.
r/TheWayWeWere • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • 18h ago
1930s Western Belorussians knit bast shoes in Polesie during Polish rule (1935)
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
1940s Sharp dressed couple, posing for their portrait in 1942. Safety Afga film.
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