33 Interesting Historical Images of Relics From The Past

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This briefcase that had a separate compartment for floppy disks:

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This time capsule note from 1998 that mentions Bill Clinton just as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking (back when Clinton was still denying everything):

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This Gameboy from the Gulf War that wrecked my perception of time:

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This stamp of Charles and Diana from 1981:

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This speech for President Nixon in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin couldn't get back to Earth:

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This 1939 vacation ad downplaying Hitler's threat:

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This headline from a 1940 paper:

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And this 1908 postcard that casually has swastikas on it:

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These "easy-to-follow instructions" for making all kinds of drugs from 1973:

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As well as this old drug education kit with the actual drugs it was describing:

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This fill-in-the-blank letter to troops in Vietnam:

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This old cell phone with a clip-on chatboard that now feels very, very dated:

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This list of expenses for a University of Alabama student in 1929, which totals under $100 for a quarter:

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This "Kraft Dinner" from 1979 that proves Kraft has been around for a while, but it used to look pretty different:

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This 1965 church cookbook that lists married women using their husbands' last name:

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This old vaccine card that prove they're nothing new:

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These instructions from a 1911 book of home remedies:

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Along with this display of mobile phones from their inception until today, which shows just how quickly things change:

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This Netflix instant streaming disc for Wii:

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This prediction that computers won't take over the world, actually, from 1980:

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This Crayola box that also looks wildly different:

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And this old McDonald's coupon that's likely from the '60s that proves not everything has changed:

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This old Elvis-branded shampoo someone found from 1985:

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This 1940s list of rules for new mothers that includes not smoking or handling any phones an hour prior to nursing:

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These old food coupons and stamps:

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Aaaand this $57 bill for a birth in 1940:

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This "desirable weight according to height" table from 1959, which does not seem right to me:

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This old note people found when pulling off the old wallpaper in their new home:

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These old medicines that look more like poison:

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This 1919 bill of sale for a Ford car that came out to $325:

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And finally, this old note from a 1908 autograph book: