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
Did you have horsey ride that could catch your finger in the spring? Me - 1973.1yr ⋅ fredfreddy4444 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
And watermelon for desert. Three generations having a picnic c1953. (no clue whats in the Mason jars)1yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Children wearing straw capes on their way to a New Year's event in Niigata, Japan in 19562yr ⋅ ExploreMoreMysteries ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mrs. Handy with vegetables she has just canned. Scotland, Maryland in 1940. Photograph by Jack Delano. The image, information in the caption, and date are from the Library of Congress1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My proud Grandpa in his liquor store - complete with fake wooden panels. 19638mo ⋅ Dork31 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1974, 14 yrs old, no makeup or hair style worries yet! Just still a happy child1yr ⋅ TeresaJWilborn ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. The father is under the truck doing some repairs. August 1936. (Photo by Dorothea Lange)1yr ⋅ MyIpodStillWorks ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Abandoned baby sleeping in desk drawer at Los Angeles Police station, 1971.11mo ⋅ NickelPlatedEmperor ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A typical family at the time. Taken in the Midwest sometime around 1900.1mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Swing dancing at a Double Wedding, Harlem, NY, c. 1940. Photo by Otto Bettmann.1yr ⋅ FlamingoEvery5528 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A De Beer diamond mine worker is X-rayed at the end of his shift. Kimberley, South Africa. October 1954.1yr ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
World’s largest log cabin. Portland, Oregon, USA, 1938. Built in 1905, burned down in 1964.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother, age 15? Born 1898 in Newport, RI. I love this series, obviously shot in a studio.1yr ⋅ Massive_Bedroom_2104 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Annie, 7, and 1-year-old Nellie, sit outside their house in Spitalfields. They were among ten children born to single mother Annie Daniels. Photographed by Horace Warner around 1900. He documented the lives of the children of the area, who in turn became known as the 'Spitalfield Nippers'2mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The crew of the Kmart in Santa Rosa, California, photographed on their opening day in 1970. Photo by Don Meacham, shown courtesy of the Sonoma County Library.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Pinewood Derby racers at the 1968 Cub Scout Olympics in Fort Worth, Texas3yr ⋅ notbob1959 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandparents as teenagers circa 1955 when they got married. He was 17 and she was 16. They raised 5 kids and are still living.10mo ⋅ a_complex_kid ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The crickets...My uncle (pictured) who was an original band member of Buddy Holly and the crickets in Lubbock, Texas. When Buddy went on the road, my uncle chose not to go because his wife (pictured) made it clear his priority was her and his children.1yr ⋅ shewhoissweet ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An Opium Den in 1926 NYC. All users were quite clearly photographed after imbibing the pipe. (More on Opium Dens in the comments)4mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
my great grandma and great step grandpa. what a handsome couple. ca. 1960s2yr ⋅ heartofperiwinkle ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Four prize winners in the 1922 beauty show at Washington Bathing Beach, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Gay Gatley, Eva Fridell, Anna Niebel, Iola Swinnerton.1yr ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandfather and his sister. Despite being technically white, he was barred from whites only establishments due to his complexion while serving in the army in Alabama circa 1950. 2mo ⋅ Salem1690s ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Something a little different: One page of hundreds of letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother during WWII4yr ⋅ Caboose127 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Mom is back, this time wishing you a happy first day of winter, and to confess that she took all the tinsel during Christmas 1958.2yr ⋅ ThePassedPast ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A young man demonstrating against low pay for teachers, ca. 1930. “I left school to earn $21 a week. My teacher’s pay is $17.78 a week.” Photo: Paul Thompson.2yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Lucile Randon circa 1920, a French supercentenarian born in 1904 and still alive at 118 years old.1yr ⋅ NGC3741 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A boy and his dog ready to go camping, Southern California, July 19692yr ⋅ eightbells ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-grandfather with his Japanese friend in Seattle, Washington, circa 19351yr ⋅ AncestryBruh ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
'The Tricycle Gang - Herkimer Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn', 1940s1yr ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A group of Victorians performing the 'Thriller' dance in 1890! (I've compiled a gallery of Victorians mucking about and put it in the comments if you'd like to see it)11mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
These two women were captured in Chicago in the 1910s, and although I'm not certain if they are sisters, they are in other photos in my collection. It's interesting to see how their dress styles differ: one has a more whimsical style, while the other is more traditional.1yr ⋅ memorylanepr ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Children in a traditional Minobashi raincoat going to a New Year's event, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 19562yr ⋅ PatatasFrittas ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Blizzard Of 1888 (March) Madison Ave @ East 40th, NYC. Photo Courtesy of R. Weissman1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A prospector standing outside a log cabin in Pike's Peak, Colorado, United States, in c. 1900. Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram historycolored.com7mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-grandfather’s mugshots, after he was arrested for bigamy. December 1926, Australia.2yr ⋅ maiaatlantis ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Thomas Huxley, the first paleontologist to hypothesize that birds evolved from dinosaurs.11mo ⋅ aaleom ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 (Russia excepted); left to right: Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan. More in the comments1yr ⋅ AdImmediate7037 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandfather in 1968 getting crowned after winning Homecoming King, posing with Homecoming Queen7mo ⋅ Expensive-Shift3510 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Following the current trend, my Great, Great, Great Grandmother Eva Gosda from Prussia. (1819 - 1892)1yr ⋅ terragthegreat ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1976. I was very excited to meet Uncle Frost (Soviet version of Santa Claus) at the New Year celebration. I 'm wearing a home-made costume of a rabbit.2yr ⋅ Sputnikoff ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mother's brother in 1919 or 1920. He was born in 1895 and died in 1966.1mo ⋅ Logybayer ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother (who died last month, 99 years old) out skiing with a friend, in Norway (ca 1950)2yr ⋅ bjaabja ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Young american woman in Florence, Italy. Photographed by Ruth Orkin in 1951.1yr ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Four women posing around bed with a baby. One woman, wearing a nightdress, reclines on bed. Fan is displayed on wall in background. Handwritten on sleeve: Five generations, Ada w/ baby. May, 1905.11mo ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
When mortgage payments were less than $50! (Late 50s/early 60s)9mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A well armed man on the porch of his house during the Chicago race riots, July 27, 1919. 38 people died.1yr ⋅ InfamousLeopard383 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A 10-year-old girl plays in a snow drift as her cat maintains its comfortable perch atop her head, 1952.2yr ⋅ somnum_osseus ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Black families split apart by slavery used newspaper ads to reunite.1yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Friday night around 1981, Mom playing pool at the local dive bar. Dad took the pic.1yr ⋅ rlprice74 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A young family and their '53 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday Coupe. East L.A. (1960)1yr ⋅ DualCay0te ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Talking to the bartender on Saturday night, Birney, Montana, August 19411yr ⋅ InfamousLeopard383 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mom and I with our new Great Dane puppy Herman, Great Falls, Montana, 19623mo ⋅ Schaefer2442 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mom and me on my '71 CB750, on a summer afternoon, so long ago . . . (1972)5yr ⋅ tallyrand ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My birthday party in the first grade. I’m the boy on the far left with wide open eyes.10mo ⋅ Chazzzor1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A night soil man who used to take away human waste to be used in fertilizer. Dunston, Lincolnshire, England 18722yr ⋅ pumpkinmum ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing. 19393yr ⋅ HellsJuggernaut ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Women at a swimming competition on the Charles River, Boston, MA, 19191yr ⋅ InfamousLeopard383 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Note the hand-grenade on the soldier’s hip, front. Possibly Vietnam, they look rather hip for Korea or WW2.1yr ⋅ MaryCone1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Photo of a young French/Chinese woman taken in Colonial Vietnam. 1916.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Anyone order a thigh? Los Angeles, CA, c. 1946. Photography by Elson-Alexandre.1yr ⋅ FlamingoEvery5528 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
