My great grandmother in the early 1900’s. Thought she looked too awesome not to share.2mo · allerena85 · r/TheWayWeWere
Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.19402yr · closecaxton · r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandpa with his first child, 1957. He passed away yesterday, April 26, aged 91.10mo · Planejet42 · r/TheWayWeWere
Saw this photo posted here.. noticed I have the photo the grandmother took that day. (Bought at an antique shop years ago in PHX)2yr · KSD4 · r/TheWayWeWere
The wedding rings of my GGM, GGGM, GGGGM, and GGGGGM oldest dating back to 1832!10mo · FriendshipWaffles · r/TheWayWeWere
Goldie Williams, Arrested For Vagrancy & Refused to Unfold Her Arms and Stop Making This Face For Her 1898 Mugshot. (Omaha, Nebraska)11mo · itsacalamity · r/TheWayWeWere
A mother with her children, 1,800 years ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt.1mo · KosherNazi · r/TheWayWeWere
My ridiculously attractive grandparents sitting for a portrait in the early 1940s.3yr · its_not_appropriate · r/TheWayWeWere
Something a little different: One page of hundreds of letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother during WWII6mo · Caboose127 · r/TheWayWeWere
Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 19483yr · WildeAquarius · r/TheWayWeWere
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)1wk · Str33twise84 · r/TheWayWeWere
Mom and me on my '71 CB750, on a summer afternoon, so long ago . . . (1972)2yr · tallyrand · r/TheWayWeWere
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.4mo · GaGator43 · r/TheWayWeWere
Playing bingo on the Amtrak train between Chicago and Glacier Park, Montana June 19743mo · notbob1959 · r/TheWayWeWere
Second grader Charles Thompson the only black child in a class of 40 pupils at Baltimore Public School No. 27 in September 19547mo · notbob1959 · r/TheWayWeWere
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~1yr · HappyyItalian · r/TheWayWeWere
My dad’s total cost for a semester of college back in 1970. Would be $250 today!10mo · ImTheEternalOptimist · r/TheWayWeWere
My grandpa (left) and his best friend Willie Hall during the Korean War. Those smiles say it all.7mo · lowrider4488 · r/TheWayWeWere
My Great Aunt Letha, who was mother to me, and whom I loved vey much (is someone cutting onions in here?) passed on to be with her beloved family. She was born in January 1912, 3 months before the Titanic sank. She used to say If its changed, then Ive seen it. Id say 108 years is pretty good.6mo · Gatsby1964 · r/TheWayWeWere
The Way We Were in the 70s; my brother on the left died this week from heart attack9mo · thrifterbynature · r/TheWayWeWere
My brother's sunny adorableness in the early 1950s. Even now, with mid-stage Alzheimer's, he remains cheerful and smiles like sunshine.1wk · Bawonga · r/TheWayWeWere
Mom and dad on their wedding day. December 16, 1978 in Tonacatepeque, El Salvador. They're the best people I know.2mo · dondizzle · r/TheWayWeWere
This (shockingly high-res & colorized) photo was taken over 100 years ago, and shows a crew of men unloading a banana boat in New York. I almost feel like I'm there.3yr · RadioMars · r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandpa’s schoolhouse in Texas ca. 1930’s. He was always embarrassed of this picture because he was too poor to afford shoes.2yr · thenewfrost · r/TheWayWeWere
Sikh gentlemen outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner, London in 193511mo · blomster6 · r/TheWayWeWere
Students leaving school in a snow storm in Nashville, TN (January 1979)1yr · Meunderwears · r/TheWayWeWere
Dad showing off his skill to the surprise of his little daughter in Melbourne, Australia, ca. 1940s2yr · TynShouldHaveLived · r/TheWayWeWere
My grandparents looking like movie stars on their wedding day. Montgomery, Alabama. 19463yr · greedowallskin · r/TheWayWeWere
Reddit seems to love my Taita (grandma), so here is another one of her from 1950’s Beirut 🌸🇱🇧8mo · afterlife121 · r/TheWayWeWere
My grandparents on their wedding day standing on the church steps. I superimposed their photo onto a picture of the same steps today. 1947/20208mo · pseudangelos · r/TheWayWeWere
My 98 year-old Grandmother passed away last week. Here she is in Chicago around 1940 living it up!1yr · Dupree9973 · r/TheWayWeWere
An indigenous Peruvian woman with her child in the Andes mountains (1930s-1940s)2mo · froggysaysno · r/TheWayWeWere
A large family inside their one-room home in Plains, Georgia, 19762mo · Str33twise84 · r/TheWayWeWere
A little girl with her banana seat bike in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (1970s)1yr · blomster6 · r/TheWayWeWere
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.1yr · crapidrawatwork · r/TheWayWeWere
Carrie Kirk, a 101-year-old, formerly enslaved woman, attending a literacy class in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938.10mo · CatPooedInMyShoe · r/TheWayWeWere
After posting her pictures on this subreddit a couple of times, my grandma passed away in her sleep this morning at the age of 102. She will finally get to see her husband again. (1950s)2mo · SemiOddBeing · r/TheWayWeWere
Last picture of my Great Uncle Kennith, before he drowned in the Buffalo River, 1940’s. He gave his life saving my grandpa.2yr · teenietina182 · r/TheWayWeWere
An open air barber shop during the 1918 flu pandemic at the University of California, Berkley.3wk · Sleeeepy_Hollow · r/TheWayWeWere
Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions in the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal, 196911mo · TheSanityInspector · r/TheWayWeWere
The American Look in 1945 according to the department store, Lord & Taylor2yr · notbob1959 · r/TheWayWeWere
my great great uncle Tony liked to wear his hat one way and one way only. c. 1920s.11mo · commodorecliche · r/TheWayWeWere
My dad about to run away and find his Suzy Bishop. Oregon circa 1970.2yr · harrietpa · r/TheWayWeWere
In December 1941 an unidentified but creative photographer was assigned to cover what might happen in Seattle if wartime authorities declared a blackout. With all the lights turned off, a kiss stolen over coffee in a downtown café was one of the results.2mo · AlexReads · r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, and Great-Great-Great Grandmother, ca 19183yr · RckLbstr · r/TheWayWeWere
Woman stands on a farmer’s shoulders to emphasizes the height of their corn crop, Minnesota, 1916.1yr · lattesbitches · r/TheWayWeWere
In 1959, Volvo invented the 3-point seat belt, then gave a free license to all other car manufacturers to use it.1yr · Anyoldcrap · r/TheWayWeWere
My great-great grandmother holding my grandad, great grandmother at the back and great aunt to the side. Cornwall 19065d · lnchoate · r/TheWayWeWere
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, 1973.1yr · HellsJuggernaut · r/TheWayWeWere
Giving the official pledge of allegiance salute before it was changed in 1942.1yr · TheBestSpeller · r/TheWayWeWere
Pneumatic tubes connecting 23 US Post Offices in NYC across 27 miles. Used until 1957. 1900s-50s7mo · skipperbob · r/TheWayWeWere
Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note Social Security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon, August 1939.1yr · HellsJuggernaut · r/TheWayWeWere
Teenage Meet-Up on Main Street, Caldwell Idaho, June-July 1941. My colorisation of b&w by Russell Lee.1yr · EggsAckley · r/TheWayWeWere
Today is my grandfather’s birthday; maternal grandparents’ high school graduation photos (1938)2wk · tglg808 · r/TheWayWeWere
A sailor meets his baby for the first time after fourteen months at sea, 1940s.1yr · Anyoldcrap · r/TheWayWeWere
A drunken man in top hat and tails clings to a lamp-post, London, 1934. Photo by Bill Brandt.3wk · Sleeeepy_Hollow · r/TheWayWeWere
A young woman welder in the National Youth Administration school, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida 19437mo · FNaXQ · r/TheWayWeWere
My grandpa loved to fish his whole life. He would have been 90 today.8mo · ellerzverse · r/TheWayWeWere
This is my grandmother who passed away today at age 89. (Circa 1948)2yr · laurenntinkerr · r/TheWayWeWere
these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days, and on saturday from 4 a.m. to early afternoon. 1911 by lewis hine1mo · NihilisticNoir · r/TheWayWeWere
Garment District, NYC, 36th Street and 7th Avenue, 1970's. Photo by Ozzie Friedman.3mo · AxlCobainVedder · r/TheWayWeWere
A U.S soldier from Wisconsin found his cousins at Palermo, 1943 [6095x4166] (Colorized by me.)1yr · xstrauss2 · r/TheWayWeWere
100 Years Ago Today (January 15, 1920) - patrons make a run on the liquor store, mobbing the clerks to get their last orders in before Prohibition takes effect at midnight1yr · NordyNed · r/TheWayWeWere
Girls standing in water holding bunches of American Lotus, Amana, Iowa, 1938. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts.4mo · Paul-Belgium · r/TheWayWeWere
Going through my grandparents' house I found a folder that has copies of the original letters and transcribed copies of letters (much much easier to read) between my great, great grandparents during the civil war. This is the one notifying her that he was killed in action.1yr · fatrunner1 · r/TheWayWeWere
She was a Covid fatality at a Texas nursing home. (1948) We'll miss you!4mo · thrifterbynature · r/TheWayWeWere
Hilda Churchill and her husband, United Kingdom, 1929. Hilda was born in 1911 and survived the Spanish Flu pandemic which killed her sister. She died of COVID-19 in Salford, England on March 28, age 108.11mo · CatPooedInMyShoe · r/TheWayWeWere
