When thinking about the past, it feels like a surreal reality that sometimes could be more difficult to imagine than the future. But seeing photos from 1800 and 1900 feels even weirder since it is actual proof of it happening. And more importantly, people’s lives don’t seem to be boring or dull. On the contrary, they look risky, weird, fun, and simply put – entertaining to my futuristic human eyes. I am sure, if these people had the internet back then, we would be greeted with quality memes from past times. So, after all, we are not that different, just with other possibilities.
But I don’t want to romanticize the olden times. They did have pretty harsh legislation, and it wasn’t easy if you did not fit into the ideology of that time. And even though we have our own challenges nowadays, I’d rather be here and now. Though it feels interesting to see how the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower looked when they were still under construction, as well as simpler things, such as people’s fashion, their lazy Sunday afternoons, and even dogs doing chores.
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Thankfully, a Facebook page called ‘Old Photos‘ keeps us posted on the past, and today we want to invite you to delve into these vintage photos part 2. Feel free to check out part 1 here, and for more, you can also visit our posts of important historical images and old photos in real life.
#1 A Couple Dancing On Ice-Skates On Whitestone Pond, Hampstead, London, 1933
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#2 Net Fix And Chill, Irish Fishermen, Ireland 1910
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#3 A Saloon That Allowed Children Their Own Child-Size Beers, Wisconsin, 1890
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#4 Do We Have Such Accurate Halloween Costumes These Days?
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#5 Its Not About Where You Are, Its Who You’re With
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#6 Photographer Above The Skies Of Berlin, 1912
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#7 Tattooed Family In 1910
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#8 A Ghostly Yet Mesmerizing Image From 1900
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#9 Soldiers Peel Onions While Using Gas Masks To Stop Them From Crying, 1941
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#10 A Cat’s Life On The Farm, 1951
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#11 Tourists Drink Tea Atop The Great Pyramid, 1938
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#12 Frank Lentini, An Owner Of 3 Legs, 4 Feet, 16 Toes, And 2 Functioning Sets Of Genitals
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#13 Kiowa Couple Lone Wolf And Etla, 1860
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#14 Women Boxing On A Roof, 1938
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#15 Witches From 1875
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#16 Annie Oakley Shooting A Gun Over Her Shoulder Using A Hand Mirror, 1899
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#17 Even The Window Cleaners Wore Suits 100 Years Ago
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#18 A Policeman Judges An Ankle Competition At Hounslow, London, 1930
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#19 Apache Woman And Child, 1898
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#20 A Woman At A Cafe In Paris With Her Pet Cheetah, 1932
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#21 A Snow Lady, 1892
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#22 Grandma Patching The Only Pants Of Her Grandson, 1907
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#23 J W Waldron’s Smith & Bicycle Works In Brighton, England. C. 1900
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#24 Yellow Magpie, Arapaho Man, 1898
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#25 Two Ladies Leaving A Polling Station, London, 1929
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#26 Northumbrian Miner At His Evening Meal, 1937
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#27 Old Fashion Playground
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#28 First Photograph Of A Tornado Near Garnett, Kansas. April 26, 1884
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#29 Rear View Of Young Couple Snuggling Behind The Wheel Of His Convertible As They Watch Large Screen Action Behind Rows Of Cars At A Drive-In Movie Theater
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#30 Daredevil Jammie Reynolds In 1917
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#31 A Young Edwardian Lady From 1910
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#32 Woman Stomping Grapes In Frascati, Italy In 1957
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#33 A Beautiful Little Girl In New York, 1958
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#34 US Mail, 1912
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#35 A Family In Front Of Their Summer Home. Stockholm, Sweden, 1867
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#36 The Hand And The Torch Of The Statue Of Liberty Being Built In A Paris Studio Around 1876
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#37 Albert Einstein Plays His Beloved Violin, 1941
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#38 1850s Young Fashionable Teen With A Slight Smirk
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#39 Atlantic City Beach, 1890s
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#40 Real Japanese Samurai, 1866
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#41 Drunken Women Fighting On A Rooftop. London, 1902
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#42 One Of The First Original Selfies, Taken With A Stick, 1934
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#43 Female Worker Bottling Ketchup At The Original Heinz Factory Circa 1897. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us
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#44 A Lazy Sunday Afternoon, 1908
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#45 New York City, 1888
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#46 Anne Frank Pokes Her Head Out Of Her Family’s Flat In Amsterdam, 1942
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#47 A Cameraman Filming Over Baker Street , London 1930
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#48 Two Amphicars Crossed The English Channel In 1965
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#49 Mother Home Schools Her Children In Transylvania, Louisiana, 1937
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#50 A Boy And His Owl, 1933
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#51 New Parents Of Quadruplets, Late 1880s
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#52 Golf Ball Collector, 1920s
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#53 A Young Man Enjoying His First Dance
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#54 Inuit Man Warms His Wife’s Feet, Greenland, 1890’s
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#55 No One Is Helping These Guys Clean The House!
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#56 A Rare Look Inside Of A Barbershop, 1869
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#57 London Nomads, 1877
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#58 Niagara Falls In 1912
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#59 Britsh Tourists In Front Of The Great Sphinx, 1910
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#60 Empire State Building Construction Workers In The 1930s
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#61 The Earliest Known Photo Of Abraham Lincoln, 1840
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#62 Bricklayer, 1928
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#63 The First Class Gymnasium On Board The Titanic
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#64 Queen Elizabeth II In 1945
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#65 A Portrait Taken Of A Woman While She Was Mid-Sneeze
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#66 A Salesman Has His Motorized Roller Skates Refueled. Connecticut, 1961
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#67 Forge Workers Beside Part Of The Titanic’s Anchor Chain
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#68 Hershey Kisses Being Individually Hand-Wrapped, 1935
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#69 Conjoined Twins Of Mustaches, 1890
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#70 A Group Of Montana Men Advertising For Wives, 1901
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#71 A Policeman Holds Up Traffic To Allow Four Egg Chicks To Cross A Bridge, 1966
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#72 Testing Of New Bulletproof Vests, 1923
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#73 A Horse Smiles, Circa 1958
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#74 Newsgirl And Newsboy. New York, 1896
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#75 McDonald Brothers In Front Of Soon To Open 1st Ever Mcdonald’s, 1948
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#76 Nocturnal View From Notre-Dame Overlooking The Hotel-Dieu, Paris, 1933
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#77 Stylish Victorian Woman
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#78 Two Women Train At A Boxing School In Berlin, Germany, 1909
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#79 Newsies And Other Child Laborers Gather Outside A Newspaper Office. February, 1910
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#80 Chicago, 1929
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#81 Mother And Son, Ireland, 1890
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#82 Workers Reinstall Clock At The Information Booth In Grand Central, New York, 1954
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#83 A Fireman From The London Fire Brigade, Wearing A Smoke Helmet, 1908
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#84 Protesters March During Prohibition, Chicago, 1920’s
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#85 The Eiffel Tower Is Shown Under Construction In 1887
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#86 Two Girls Standing Outside Of A Snow Fort, 1910
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#87 Leola King, America’s First Female Traffic Cop, 1918
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#88 Construction Workers Taking Lunch Break On The Edges Of The Building They’re Working On, London, 1929
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#89 Women Having Tea, New Zealand, 1890
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#90 A Woman Riding An Autoped
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#91 A Scottish Farmer Shoeing A Horse, 1921
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#92 Vancouver, Canada, 1907
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#93 Father And Son Goofing Off, 1910s
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#94 A Family Auto Camping In Oregon, 1918
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#95 A Man Looses His Umbrella On A Windy And Snowy Day, 1962
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#96 Man Standing On Lap Of Colossal Figure Of Ramses, 1856
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#97 Some Of The First Volkswagen “Beetles” Produced In West Germany, 1945
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#98 A Rare Look Inside The Original Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Factory, 1924
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#99 The Oldest Known Documented Wheelie, 1936
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#100 A Graduation Ceremony, 1895
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#101 A Lector Reads A Newspaper To Workers In A Cigar Factory, 1900s
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#102 This Is How People Went To The Beach In 1910
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#103 A Family Is Forced To Leave Their Home During The Great Depression, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, June, 1938
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#104 Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s
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#105 Family Of Cherry Pickers, 1940
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#106 Butter-Making In Appalachia, 1917
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#107 Teacher Tantie Huckabee At The Palmetto-Covered One-Room School Near Taylor Creek And Lake Okeechobee, Florida In The 1890s
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#108 Two Women Crossing The Street During A Blizzard, New York, 1903
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#109 Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Man In History, With His Family In 1935
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#110 A Young Woman In A Skirt Working Out With Boxing Gloves And A Punching Bag, 1890
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#111 Singer Johnny Hallyday Admires A Bizzarrini 5300 Gt In Paris, 1960
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#112 Wearing The Latest Style At Longchamp Race’s Paris France, 1919
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#113 Driver Of Combine Threshing Oats, 1940
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#114 Steelworker Touching The Tip Of The Chrysler Building During The Construction Of The Empire State Building, 1931
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#115 Sherwood Logging Camp, 1900
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#116 Mrs. Dyson In Her Kitchen. Saint Mary’s County, Maryland In 1940
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#117 New York, 1935
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#118 The Bathing Hour, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1900s
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#119 “The Old Lady And Her Pets”, 1886
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#120 12 And 14 Year Old Boys Packing Cones At The Workshop Of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone. Oklahoma, 1917
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#121 Traffic Officer Operating A Mechanical Traffic Signal, Philadelphia, 1922
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#122 American Woman Welders During World War II
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#123 Firefighters Trying To Stop Fire At The Equitable Life Building During A Snowstorm, Manhattan, 1912
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#124 Woman Talking On A Hand Crank, Oak Telephone, 1900s
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#125 Inside A Train, 1800s
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#126 Dr. Elizabeth Bruyn Sits In The Rear Of Her Horse Drawn Ambulance In The United States, 1911
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#127 Learning To Ride A Bicycle, 1895
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#128 Ferris, 7 Years Old, Newspaper Boy In Alabama, 1900’s
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#129 “Lets Bury Dad!”, 1915
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#130 Oglala Girl With Her Puppy Sitting In Front Of A Tipi, Pine Ridge Reservation, 1891
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#131 New York Hair Salon, Early 1970s
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#132 Saturday Afternoon In Florence, Alabama, 1942
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#133 An Old West Saloon With A Tough Looking Clientele
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#134 Studebaker Motor Car In Repair Shop With Garage Mechanic. San Francisco, 1915
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#135 Writing Out A Parking Ticket In Manhattan, 1952
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#136 View From The Top On The Opening Day Of The Empire State Building, 1931
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#137 Texaco Station, General Store & Post Office, 1940’s
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#138 Women Learn To Shoot, 1915
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#139 A Coca Cola Company Delivery Truck In Knoxville, 1909
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#140 Three Homeless Boys Sleep On A Stairway In A Lower East Side Alley, New York, 1890s
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