A mother with her children, 1,800 years ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt.3yr ⋅ KosherNazi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1979 - Two kids from my high school at a house party. She posted this on Facebook a while back.11mo ⋅ DistantKarma ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Perfectly Poised, Charlottesville, VA, c. 1916. via. Holsinger Studio Portrait Project.1mo ⋅ FlamingoEvery5528 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1930. My father, age 25. He and my mother were on a sight-seeing trip from Canton, Ohio to Niagara Falls. (I think for their 1-year anniversary.) They stayed overnight at these cabins.1yr ⋅ Logybayer ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandma, born 1920, was in her 20s here. She worked as a Rosie the Riveter during WWII!1yr ⋅ exoinsect ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Dad's family leaving Missouri for California cicra 1944. My dad, 1st row all the way to the right. Crazy thing is there are 8 older kids not in the picture. 1wk ⋅ Fomorian58 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The wedding rings of my GGM, GGGM, GGGGM, and GGGGGM oldest dating back to 1832!4yr ⋅ FriendshipWaffles ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Evolution of the women’s bathing suit from 1875 to 1927 (Photo taken 1927)8mo ⋅ Giaguaro2023 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Mother passed away last September and my cousin sent an old picture of my mom with her sisters. She's the third one from the left.6mo ⋅ rwllsld ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal in 1969, there were ashtrays and coin-operated televisions.11mo ⋅ LeftCanonization ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Model wearing sweater with heart pierced by jeweled dagger. (1947) Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE. Colorized.1yr ⋅ ectheow3 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Coal miner's child using a hole in the door to enter a bedroom ,19382yr ⋅ ExploreMoreMysteries ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A girl with her kicksled in a wintry forest. Sweden in 1910. This is an original colour photograph, not a colourisation.1yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Farm family sitting down to supper, Claiborne County, Tennessee, 19405mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mom (top row second from right) ca. 1983 on a class trip (Cedar Point, Sandusky Ohio)6mo ⋅ a_complex_kid ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In 1855 William Morris Grundy photographed rural England as he saw it. Vastly different from the images we see of city life from the same era. If you're interested i've compiled some of Grundy's work and linked to it in the comments.1yr ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Hungarians burning a portrait of Stalin during the revolt, 19561yr ⋅ InfamousLeopard383 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Pinball machines being destroyed during the pinball prohibition. They were banned in NYC as well as other major US cities like Chicago and Los Angeles between the 1940s and 1970s1yr ⋅ NickelPlatedEmperor ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Swimsuits and Roller Skates, Chicago, IL, c. 1947. Photo by Wayne Miller.2wk ⋅ FlamingoEvery5528 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I clip articles that interest me. This one from 1981 seemed so crazy it was worth saving.3yr ⋅ Quincynessig ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Exactly 40 years ago this group of five friends tore up the rollerskating rinks. We are all still friends today!1yr ⋅ mlotto7 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
At my drafting table with my electric eraser before our office used computers, 19831mo ⋅ dittidot ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Kids cheering on the way out the door on the last day of school, 197710mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Young lady photographed by Henry Peach Robinson, late 1800s8mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
3 Women from Guadeloupe at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, 1911. Colorized by Sanna Dullaway, taken by Augustus Sherman.1yr ⋅ buticewillsuffice ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The average American just wants to put it in an honest days of work, then go home to be with their families. 19821yr ⋅ CoomWillBeMyDoom ⋅ 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)3yr ⋅ Str33twise84 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great grandparents, together since high school. This was about 1945, she passed away last year.2yr ⋅ mysticalmestizo ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
August 13, 1925 An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island waiting for the government ferry to take them to Manhattan.1yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 19486yr ⋅ WildeAquarius ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Christmas morning at our house 1968, waiting for Apollo’s return with the rest of the world1yr ⋅ dittidot ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
World War II German POWs working on an Iowa farm, 1940s (exact date unknown). An often-forgotten part of the war today, over 400,000 enemy soldiers were interned in camps across the United States, with over 25,000 of them being held in Iowa alone.1yr ⋅ HawkeyeTen ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My beautiful Ukrainian grandparents, hairstyles ever on flic2, in the early 50's1yr ⋅ burshty ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Kodachrome 35mm slide I found at a thrift store. Dated September 1960.1yr ⋅ bodyofchristened ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I found the death certificate of my grandmother’s grandfather. Decapitated by a train! My god!1yr ⋅ witch_and_famous ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother in the one warm room in the house. Artifacts of an older time all around. 1963.7mo ⋅ mks113 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
It’s 1622, and you want to move to the “New World” / Virginia — here’s what you should bring with you to be able to sustain yourself ...4mo ⋅ blonderengel ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dad (far left) with his siblings on a parent-free, multi-state roadtrip.3mo ⋅ lyndseymariee ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I was a preemie. I weighed 1 lb 11 ozs at birth. My twin brother passed away a couple of days later. The doctors thought I would not make it. I will be 61 in August. 5d ⋅ mystigirl123 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-grandmother, centre, with her children after receiving the Mother of Afghanistan title from Queen Humaira Begum in 1973. She is the only woman to ever receive this title.1yr ⋅ abu_doubleu ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Child labor: a spinner at the cotton mill, circa 1910. She didn’t know her age, and made less than half a dollar a day.1yr ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother and her best friend, 1936. They met in first grade and ended up marrying brothers.1yr ⋅ hippiestitcher ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I think whoever filled out this 1945 certificate of stillbirth was going through some things.7mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Atlanta High School basketball player shooting underhand, a free throw against Tech High School in 19216d ⋅ -11H17NO3- ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
These boys were ejected from Marietta High School in Marietta, Georgia for their long hair in 1971.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Uncle Jimmy in 1977. He passed last year due to a COVID infection. One of the best humans I ever knew.1yr ⋅ the89delta ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-aunt Betty Ann, 1941. Last photo taken of her before her death from polio at age 15.5mo ⋅ hippiestitcher ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
There were 357 residential schools in the U.S., where Native American children were sent, and, by 1926, more than 80% of Native American children were attending such schools. The first such school - the Carlisle Indian Industrial School - was established in 1879. The photo here is from 1885.1wk ⋅ Vasey6067 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In the winter of 1898-99, Breckenridge was buried under more than 20 feet of snow. Life went on.1yr ⋅ ArchdukeOfNorge ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Caroline and Charles Ingalls (Laura Ingalls Wilder’s parents) 1880.9mo ⋅ FiddleheadFernly ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Midsummer celebration at Skansen, Stockholm in the 1970s. Glad midsommar!3yr ⋅ gratisargott ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A woman churning milk to butter while reading a book, 1897.11mo ⋅ NickelPlatedEmperor ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandfather on the left with a brew. Clearly, he would have beat those Socs’s asses. Taken during the 1950s in Cedar Rapids, IA.1yr ⋅ HowWeGonnaGetEm ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandma in June 1956. She just turned 87 and is still beautiful inside and out.1yr ⋅ McGeeK28 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
May 1943. Pimlico Racecourse main parking lot, near Baltimore, Maryland1yr ⋅ anamarcorporate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
After a walk down the mountain with Great Granddaddy to get a Coke, 19691yr ⋅ JaniePoppy ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Chinese Jews in Kaifeng in 1938. The Kaifeng Jews were a centuries-old Jewish community that settled in China, possibly as early as the 12th century.6mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My sweet dad, looking very dapper on his mum’s wedding day in 1950. Dad was 4 years old. The family lived very rurally in Ceredigion.1yr ⋅ dullidulli ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This woman on the beach has a very contemporary look about her despite the fact the photo is from the mid 1920s2yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Young couple at a soul club in Memphis, photographed in 1971 by David Reed.1yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Dad and his little sister in 1964 with his 57 Chevy. He was only 16 years old. It was a black and white photo originally. I colorized it a couple years ago for my parent's anniversary. He took my mom out on their first date in that car.2yr ⋅ ohiopimp ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Still obsessed with this photo of my grandparents - mid 1950s, Jersey Shore1yr ⋅ shehadtheworld_ ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Boys packing cones at the Sanitary Ice Cream Cone factory, Oklahoma, 19171yr ⋅ InfamousLeopard383 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The US imposed a nationwide 35mph 'victory speed' limit during WW2 to save gas and rubber (Nat'l WW2 Museum)1yr ⋅ m262 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My parents kissing on their honeymoon in Switzerland in 1979. I think they look like Red and Kitty Foreman.3yr ⋅ szaagman ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me and Rommel, chilling. Notice the Pontiac Firebird silk transfer tee, tacky 1970s decor.1yr ⋅ Slick1ru2 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I am Iranian American, and the man and woman in this picture are my grandparents in 1957 in Tehran, Iran. My grandmother is still alive, and it comforts me that she’s so happy watching the Iranian people taking their beautiful country back in her lifetime.1yr ⋅ Kitchen_Pollution_76 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me (on the right) and my sister back in the 80's in San Jose. I used to wake up super early on school days just to work on my hair. When my senior year new schedule included swimming for 1st period, I saw a doctor for my allergy to chlorine, and he gave me a doctor's note excusing me from swimming3mo ⋅ Apprehensive-Jury437 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mom as a stewardess for United in 1942 (the 1st yr you did not have to be a nurse, since the planes weren’t pressurized.) She flew on a DC3 which is in the Smithsonian. If you got married you had to quit. She always loved to travel.1yr ⋅ BellaZoe23 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, performing in stage, 1905. Colorized by me.1yr ⋅ ectheow3 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
