21 Fascinating Pics From Way Back When

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Teenagers at an archery party in Briarcliff, New York, 1956

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Diner in West Virginia in 1930

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Woman and her dog in her one room house, Texas, 1938

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Motherless family, the oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family. Yakima Valley, Washington 1939. by Dorothea Lange

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Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast, 1930s

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School girls practice childcare using a doll, 1935

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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.

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Gun safety being taught in an Indiana school, 1956

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Christmas dinner near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage and pie. 1936. Photographer – Lee Russell

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A man sleeps on his dance partner after dancing 1,491 hours during an undated marathon.

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People watching a television set for the first time at Waterloo station, London, 1936

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School house photo in Texas, 1930’s.

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Sharecroppers in front of their cabin. Boone Arkansas. October 1935

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Moving Day. 1920’s

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A waitress in a diner taking a break, New York City, 1955

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A young couple spending an evening in Las Vegas (1957)

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Swimming at the Tidal Basin beach c.1918

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School dance, 1956, photo by Wayne Miller

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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 Hine

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Elementary school class taking an imaginary trip to the moon, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1966

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Cop, musicians and a dead drunk, a New York diner scene. circa 1940s