Ever wondered what everyday life was like for people living 50, 100, or more years ago..?
Ever wondered what everyday life was like for people living 50, 100, or more years ago..?
Rare collection
- Average American family, Detroit, Michigan, 1954. All this on a Ford factory worker’s wages!
- Forced Perspective on the Beach, circa 1943
- Wedding day 1970
- Caught on the firescape, 1946
- In 1895, a photographer took a picture inside of the ferry in New York.
- A boy in his room, 1964
- Inside of the Miller and Shoemaker soda fountain shop, Kansas, 1899.
- Traveling first class in a 747 with Japan Airlines, 1970.
- Reading the Sunday comics. 1950s.
- Teenage Meet-Up on Main Street, Caldwell Idaho, June-July 1941.
- High School girls were asked how many babies they want, Leslie County, Kentucky, circa 1953
- living it up.! Chicago around 1940
- A Boy and his New Dog, 1951
- High school students, 1981.
- A Joyous Wedding Party, Harlem, NY, c. 1983
- Total cost for a semester of college back in 1970.
- Police officer unaware of the imminent danger, Chicago, 1959
- Schoolhouse in Texas ca. 1930’s.
- The rolled-stockings trend of the 1920's brought on a fad of hand-painted knees
- Housewife poses with a weeks’ worth of groceries in 1947. She spent a total of $12.50 a week (not including milk) to buy her groceries. On this budget, she is able to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins and her cat
- Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio
- Kids carrying cardboard for break dancing. New York City, 1983. Photographer- Martha Cooper
- Listening to the radio on the beach, circa 1940s
- Listening to the radio on the beach, circa 1940s
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