22 Fascinating Historical Photos For a Virtual Field Trip Through Time

Nathan Johnson Published 02/18/2024

Photography has come a long way since its invention, and for many people, it offers a great way to save and record memories and special moments in their lives.

But we can also use photography as a way to explore our history and the history of the world (post-camera invention, of course) and learn or discover new things.

Take a trip through the epochs of history with these fascinating photos of people and places from our collective past.

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Teenagers listening to records 1957

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Somewhere in Los Angeles c1959

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1915 Creighton University football team

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A girl and her cat, San Antonio, TX, 1939

5.

Visiting Disneyland, 1968

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Elite Egyptian women at french tailor shop in Cairo, 1890s

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Boeing 747 and an International Gathering of Stewardesses, 1970s

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East Kentucky Appalachian girl, 1964

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Los Angeles International Airport. 1970’s.

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A sailor from the USS Oriskany proudly showing off his tattoos, 1950s

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Children’s Playground in New York City, early 20th century

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Katherine Johnson, “human computer”, famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962

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Three generations having a picnic c1953

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14.

A former chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family, seventeen children and five elders, live on Hitchen’s farm, Seaford, Delaware, 1910.

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Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969)

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A group of children posing in their classroom, 1900s.

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A Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardess in go-go boots, 1970′s.

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A girl and her cat, San Antonio, TX, 1939

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Children on a mule pulling a plow, Ozark Mountains, 1930’s

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20.

New York City, 1900

21.

Just Married, New Hampshire, 1958

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Passengers aboard a Boeing 307 aircraft operated by Pan American World Airways, 1940s.

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23.

Diner in Alpine, Tex. 1939

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