This family photo was photographed by Gainesville, GA photographer, Nathan C. White, circa 1910-1918. From my glass negative collection.1yr ⋅ memorylanepr ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Harry's van. Late 70's. Headed upstate NY for a weekend camping trip.3yr ⋅ Durhamfarmhouse ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An aircraft worker dancing with his date at the Lockheed 'Swing Shift Dance' in 19422yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
(1948) A group photo of store detectives hired by Macy’s. They posed backwards to protect their identities2yr ⋅ johnnylgarfield ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Get a load of all that Avocado Green! GE kitchen appliances ad from the 1970s4mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mother and daughter on the island Uto in Sweden ca. 1910-1915. This is an original colour photo, not a colourisation. More info in comments.2yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Coffee shop at the Royal Palms Motel in Bakersfield, California 19663yr ⋅ HellsJuggernaut ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In 1958, car seat safety was rudimentary, with seats not being equipped with any straps. Instead, these seats depended on the mother extending her arm to prevent the baby from toppling forward.4mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A great-grandmother, Thelma Blanche Schambers, with her great-grandkids in 19764mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Rural life in England, photographed by William Morris Grundy In 1855. This is part of a series of images that provide a surprisingly high-quality snapshot of how life was in the countryside. The rest of his series is linked in the comments.5mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me 60 years ago. I was on a short camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains south of Mount Whitney.2wk ⋅ Logybayer ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
She was 16 when I was born. NY, 1977. Two years later she left me with the neighbors and ran off to Kentucky.3yr ⋅ cinnderly ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mad Magazine artists Al Jaffee and Will Elder, in the lunchroom at the High School for Music and Arts in New York City, 1936.1wk ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
“I was afraid that my roof would collapse in the blizzard of 1979, so I shoveled the garage roof snow to the ground. The snow pile was as high as the gutter, so made a slide that took the kids down and all the way to the back of the lot,” says Greg Lopatka of Downers Grove, Illinois.1yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandfather and friends in the Amache internment camp in Colorado, circa 1942. He was about 15 when this photo was taken; he passed away last month at 94.2yr ⋅ simpforthemoon ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Sikh gentlemen outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner, London in 19354yr ⋅ blomster6 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Found glass plate negative, ca. 1900’s. Possibly a school class.2yr ⋅ Baby-Got-Books-1989 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I have no title for this found Kodachrome slide from the late 1950s. Source is from The Anonymous Project2yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Great Aunt from 1940. She was the friendliest person i ever met. Grew up poor but always reminisced about those days.3yr ⋅ dontcallmejimorjimmy ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Reddit seems to love my Taita (grandma), so here is another one of her from 1950’s Beirut 🌸🇱🇧4yr ⋅ afterlife121 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Man at Coney Island wearing a souvenir cap circa 1960. Photo by Harold Feinstein1mo ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Test pilot George Aird flying a English Electric Lightning F1 ejects from his aircraft at a low altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. September 13th 19621yr ⋅ NickelPlatedEmperor ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1910′s. Children sleeping in a store front during a New York City heat wave, on the Lower East Side.10mo ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great grandfather and his brother peddling produce in Boston, 1897. They emigrated from Russia where they were persecuted for being Jewish. He grew this to a business, supplying the university, hospitals and restaurants.8mo ⋅ Dr_Ponzu ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
People photographed at West Palm Beach in Florida, US in ca 1910. Credit: Marinaarts10mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A young boy greets his father, a soldier allowed to return home for Christmas, 1944.3yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The Farm, Summertown TN. Circa mid 70s. One of the original hippy communes and still around today. I spent a 3 day weekend there in 1978 after reading about it in National Geographic.10mo ⋅ mrxexon ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Flora and Sikes, 1905 - on the back it said Love's Old Sweet Song1mo ⋅ Slow-moving-sloth ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Tourists having refreshments and sunbathing at the top ofthe great pyramid, 1938.6mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Child waiting for his parents to come home. Glasgow tenement, 1971.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Clinton Branch Elementary lets out for summer break. St. Louis, Missouri, 1968.2yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Christina Goldsmith tenderly kissing a Weimaraner puppy, which she took from a litter of her father’s stock (he was a top breeder of Weimaraner hunting dogs). Photo by Bernard Hoffman, 19502yr ⋅ panuchazo ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My daughter standing by the airplane I made for my three children in August, 1975.2yr ⋅ 55pilot ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Saundra Brown, the first black woman on the Oakland, CA Police Force. 1970.10mo ⋅ Puzzleheaded-Monk862 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Students leaving school in a snow storm in Nashville, TN (January 1979)4yr ⋅ Meunderwears ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This 1876-77 photograph shows a (gypsy) family living a nomadic life in London.2mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
High school graduation photo, Utah, 1928. Her name was Estella Lenora Berg.1mo ⋅ PatTheKVD ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This Italian woman is curiously inspecting the kilt of a Scottish soldier. The soldiers are standing near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome in 1944.1yr ⋅ DualCay0te ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The Great St. Bernard Hospice in Switzerland has existed for nearly 1,000 years as a safe haven for needy travelers and pilgrims. Photo is from 1913.1yr ⋅ DualCay0te ⋅ 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.4yr ⋅ crapidrawatwork ⋅ 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. 1947/20204yr ⋅ pseudangelos ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandma decided to travel the world later in life, and talked her best friends into going with her. She took more than 30 trips in her 40s and 50s.2yr ⋅ BlueEyedDinosaur ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1948 Stanley Kubrick photo of children at an orphanage in Mooseheart, Illinois.1yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
New Year's Eve 1954 - my grandmother in the mirror taking my mom's picture before she went out.2yr ⋅ Latte_Love1111 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Carrie Kirk, a 101-year-old, formerly enslaved woman, attending a literacy class in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938.4yr ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Titanic Survivors Charlotte Collyer and her 8-year-old daughter Marjorie after they finally made it back to America - 1912 (more info in the comments)2yr ⋅ pumpkinmum ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Silent movie actress Marie Doro, proper attitude and definitely a historical hottie. Born in 1882, Doro was well known for being intelligent, cultivated and witty, you can see all three of those attributes in that expression and pose.1yr ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dad running up his airplane engine on the front lawn of his house. St. Louis, 1930. He built and flew this airplane powered by a modified Model T Ford engine. The name on the nose was his girlfriends name (later, my mom)8mo ⋅ 55pilot ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Around 1952. I think mom took this photo cause I was pouting. A friend colorized it later. I wore bib overalls until about 5th grade.3yr ⋅ BigJohnWingman ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My granddad would be turning 100 today if he was alive still. Here he is in his late 20’s/early 30’s on the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk.4mo ⋅ weebslug ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother, great grandmother, great-great grandmother, great-great-great grandmother, and my great-great-great-great grandmother.2yr ⋅ SadClownPainting ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A large family inside their one-room home in Plains, Georgia, 19763yr ⋅ Str33twise84 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Young Dutch mother with her baby in a wooden pram, The Netherlands, 1929.1yr ⋅ rumine2 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A little girl with her banana seat bike in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (1970s)4yr ⋅ blomster6 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great grandparents on their way to see the Queen, 1960s Barbados5mo ⋅ tinksaysboo ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A group of breaker boys photographed at Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. located in South Pittston, Pennsylvania. Photograph taken by Lewis Hine in 1911.3mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-grandparents in the late 1930s (Italy). Sadly they both died of tubercolosis about ten years later. My grandfather became orphan at 11 years old.2yr ⋅ admaiora_ ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Esbon High School District Champion girls’ basketball team. Kansas, 1925. I think at least some of the girls are wearing bloomers.1mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In 1959, Volvo invented the 3-point seat belt, then gave a free license to all other car manufacturers to use it.5yr ⋅ Anyoldcrap ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Happy 125th birthday to my Grandfather, Joe Moore. This photo booth pic is from about 1915. 🎂❤2yr ⋅ ThePassedPast ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Dad when he was about 5 year old | Podolsk, Moscow, USSR | c.19551yr ⋅ LicencedToPaint ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandfather and his dog, taken in 1916 in Centreville, Ontario2yr ⋅ throughthenarrowpass ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A line of young men enlisting for the Military after Pearl Harbor incident c.19411mo ⋅ JonesdSI6cp5 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My parents on their wedding day. He was newly returned from World War 2. 1940s8mo ⋅ Earl_I_Lark ⋅ 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)3yr ⋅ SemiOddBeing ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1955. Lower East Side. NYC. An elderly lady and her dog watch the world go by from her apartment window. Photo by Erika Stone/Getty Images3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Julie's 21st. Just 7up and cherry juice - don't get excited. January 19633yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Woman stands on a farmer’s shoulders to emphasizes the height of their corn crop, Minnesota, 1916.5yr ⋅ lattesbitches ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother's first studio photo, 1946. She was 22 and gifted me this photo on my 22nd birthday3yr ⋅ lkuolpip ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
„Princess Sunshine“, Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, looking out the window of her playhouse. She died at 8 years old.2mo ⋅ Limesnlemons ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandparents in the early 1960s in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. They were smitten from the age of 15, and stayed together all of their lives.3yr ⋅ Dearestbrittany ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere