Women Librarians delivering books on horseback in 1930's Kentucky1yr ⋅ MyIpodStillWorks ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My family Christmas morning posing in our brand new matching bathrobes, 195910mo ⋅ dittidot ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandparents on their wedding day, 1940s. Her dads face is likely because she was 16 and pregnant.1yr ⋅ SqueakySnapdragon ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Cashiers At The Piggly Wiggly Continental, Encino, California, 19629mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A disguised witness testifies in a drug courtroom. Washington, 19522yr ⋅ Then-Guarantee-6445 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mom's welcome home fondue party for my dad after returning from his third Vietnam tour (1968)4mo ⋅ withac2 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Helped my uncle pack today. This is from one of his clients saying RIP to thier computer he was replacing. Over 30 years ago!1yr ⋅ FermiFam ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Parents In 1950. I think they were in one of their friend's wedding party. Loved the way they looked. Probably my favorite portrait of them. Both of them lived into their nineties and were very much in love until the end ...3mo ⋅ razzlefrazzen ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great grandfather in the 60s i think, he's 90 this year and still kicking!1yr ⋅ MikaWaifu ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Yesterday we said goodbye to my sweet grandmother. She was 100 years old.5mo ⋅ Ilovethe90sforreal ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Our local high school’s unfortunately named photography club, circa 1920. Minnesota.1yr ⋅ owlbthere ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An infantryman is comforted by a fellow soldier after witnessing the deaths of his comrades in the Central Highlands in 1967. (AP Photo)7mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A summers day, 112 years ago. Autochrome taken by Paul Bergon c.19102yr ⋅ pumpkinmum ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great grandparents in 1970 outside the home they’ve owned since 19455mo ⋅ mishkaow ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A Filipino baby and her family on display inside a New York City “Human Zoo” in 1906.1yr ⋅ Shadowyisotropy25 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Maternal Grandparents straight jivin’ in Mexico City, late 1940s3yr ⋅ WargreymonIsCool ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-great-great grandparents on their wedding day in 1901, Germany.1yr ⋅ kaykaw ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me and my twin with our grandfather, who helped raise us because our mom was a single mom. He really stepped up. 1970s.1yr ⋅ Definitely_Denise ⋅ 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~4yr ⋅ HappyyItalian ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Portrait of Dothan, Alabama baby Nina Bernice Brunson at around six months of age, in early 1907. She died of whooping cough at ten months of age. Now there are vaccines.7mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1925 arranged marriage of Italian immigrants to the US. Wedding photo of my wife's grandparents. According to my wife, her Nonni was bitter until she died about being forced by her family into marrying a man she did not love.1yr ⋅ gcupwanderlust ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Dad and I taking a nap. He is sleeping while my Mom takes the photo. And the wallpaper is awesome. 1977 and I am 6.1yr ⋅ fredfreddy4444 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother and her brother in their hometown, Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany. c. 19241yr ⋅ MisterMcFlyXXVI ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The first surviving photograph of a woman 1836 -Dorothy Catherine Draper was originally taken by her brother Dr. John W. Draper (1811-1882) in his Washington Square studio at the New York University, within the first year of Louis Daguerre’s announcement in Paris of his invention process.1yr ⋅ FiddleheadFernly ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Just a photo of the Christian Universal Ministry basketball team, 1980...1yr ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Grandpa wrote down everything he spent from 1923-1982. June 1, 1923: Straw hat cleaner, $0.158mo ⋅ dbomp ⋅ 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 in Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina, 1911. photo by Lewis Wickes Hine [5000 x 4005]1yr ⋅ EZX0 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This photo was taken in Maine, circa late 1800s. It was in poor condition but I think I got the best out of it. It’s a great example of Victorian fashion. From my glass negative collection.1yr ⋅ memorylanepr ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Daughter of Charles B. Lewis, miner, holding her kitten. She is sitting in kitchen of her home in company housing project. Union Pacific Coal Company, Winton Mine, Winton, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1946.5mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In 1950, A.C. Gilbert released a toy laboratory set that contained actual uranium.10mo ⋅ MKE1969 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Times when we had many Mary Poppins' around us. Special shoutout to accessories as well.( Fashion at Longchamp Racing, Paris, 1908.)1yr ⋅ MasterShifu_21 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Banana Wagon. Fruit vendor on Franklin Street, Houston, Texas, 1943.1yr ⋅ DualCay0te ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Great Grandmother’s Portrait probably taken sometime in the 1920s2yr ⋅ freezingman00 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A little boy in a sailor suit striking a confident pose. Gothenburg, Sweden ca. 1875-18832yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dad (far right) heading to the drive-in to see Star Wars with the guys, 19773yr ⋅ CuervoGold ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In-flight first class service on Air India in 1971. Welcome to the Emperor Ashoka lounge.1yr ⋅ Unable-Airport-9121 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandpa saved the break up letter from his high-school girlfriend, taped in an old scrapbook. He married my grandma a little over a year later. (1952)4yr ⋅ rhymnocerous ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My parents in 1980 at 19 and 20 years old. A year later, I was born. My dad kinda looks like a Weasly brother...3yr ⋅ MissRothmar ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Soviet children in sleeping bags on the way to their dorm room, 19303yr ⋅ John-Piece ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A little girl being reassured by her father at the photographer's. The original intention was probably to crop him out of the final photo. More info in comments. Stockholm, Sweden ca 1864-1877.2yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Which way to the OK Corral? Three tough hombre's just spoilin' fer a fight. July 19553yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandpa. He helped supply Big Rock Candy Mountain with animals for its little zoo in its beginning.8mo ⋅ susieallen ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A Waitress in a Diner taking a Break, New York, 1955. By Elliott Erwitt1yr ⋅ abaganoush ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Passengers aboard a Boeing 307 aircraft operated by Pan American World Airways, 1940s.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The last known photo of my grandfather’s cousin, Darrell Samuel Cole, a US Marine who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions on Iwo Jima, and namesake of the destroyer the USS Cole [Photo circa 1944]1yr ⋅ moonrider69420 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Young men in line to enlist in the military just after Pearl Harbor, December 194111mo ⋅ MalibuHulaDuck ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
(USSR, Leningrad, 1955) My grandma Tonya and her brother, my grand-uncle Nikolai, a year after he'd been released from Gulag after Stalin's death.1yr ⋅ kuZorba ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mom (left) and her high-school friends in the early 80s showing off their cars. Michigan3wk ⋅ a_complex_kid ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An unkown celebrity signing autographs circa late 1940s. Taken by photographer and photojournalist Arthur Fellig, also known as Weegee6mo ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandma (still alive at 96) and her dad baling hay on the family farm in Clintonville, WI. 1940s.2wk ⋅ 0nesandzer0es ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Likely a relative. Found in a family photo album. 1890s, maybe? The hair!9mo ⋅ darklyshining ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The O’Halloran sisters – Annie, Honoria, and Sarah. Photographed in 1888. They used poles, boiling water, and anything else they could find to fend off the officers evicting their family from their homestead in Bodyke, Co Clare during the Irish Land War, 1887. (More info in comments)5mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Three medical students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, in 1885.7mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Teddy Girls in 1955 - their subculture centred around a still-bomb-damaged London.2yr ⋅ CourtneyFish-Lately ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A very serious portrait of a man and his dachshund. Stockholm, Sweden in the 1910's2yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Here comes the Bride, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1950's. Photo by Charles Williams.1yr ⋅ FlamingoEvery5528 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My maternal grandpa with his maternal grandpa, Western New York, c. 19553yr ⋅ complxalgorithm ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My newly married grandfather adapting to his new way of life (details in the comments section)...1yr ⋅ Throwawayiea ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My future dad and aunt surprising my gram with something that made her smile - early 1960s1yr ⋅ m33gs ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
At Johnny's 11th birthday party. All wearing hats decorated with comic strip characters. The birthday boy is the one with the Hairbreadth Harry hat. Washington, D.C. (1922)1yr ⋅ DualCay0te ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1961-62 officers of the Future Homemakers of America, with our chapter advisor, in Fayette, Missouri (I'm on the far left in the front row)2yr ⋅ leslieanneperry ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Women's bowling team from a Pelican Lanes ladies league posing in similar dresses. Maybe awkward is the word to describe this photo? c19651yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Polish Texan uncle (black hat), his Polish immigrant mother, and the band he was apart of.1yr ⋅ jockmcgraw ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Bride Leaving Her Recently Bombed Home To Get Married, London, Nov 4, 1940.7mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Two of my great grandmas sharing a moment at my grandparents’ 25th anniversary - 1970s.11mo ⋅ laiiovlyvacuous ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
c. 1950 Brothers settle in for Howdy Doody after having their bath.1yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
That hair is... a choice. I don’t know how he maintained that without using hairspray. Texas, circa 1900.3mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States, photographed by Jack Delano in January 1941. Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram8mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Photograph of a Native American lady named O-o-dee of the Kiowa people, taken by photographer George W. Bretz in 1894. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution2yr ⋅ KatyaRomici00 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I collect pictures of strangers. This is from 1976 and it says Steve and his underpants on the back.3yr ⋅ StudsMulecock ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me (bottom right) and some friends taking a group selfie (NYC, 1969)2yr ⋅ raffishraconteur ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
April, 1974: Miner waiting to go to work on the 4 P.M. to Midnight Shift at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine near Richlands, Virginia. Photo by Jack Corn via U.S. National Archives.2yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-great-great grandfather. The picture was taken around the year 1890. He was a sea pilot on the west coast of Sweden around the Gothenburg area.1yr ⋅ Redditman30000000 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Photos of sixteen year old German anti aircraft soldier of the hitler youth. 1945 More info and link in comments.2yr ⋅ chipsandsourcream1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dad turned 94 today. Here he is in 1949 when he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands.1yr ⋅ amusesings ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In honor of Mothers Day: here’s a collage of all my direct female ancestors for whom I have a photo: one mother, two grandmothers, four great-grandmothers, four 2X greats, and one 3X great.1yr ⋅ Louise_canine ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
