History is often stereotypically presented as a dull subject (though many of you, alongside myself, may disagree vehemently). But what really brings those obscure dates and names to life are photos showing us what people like you and I might have looked like back then, and that’s exactly what the Historical Pictures and Old Memories group on Facebook does.

There’s so much to wonder about as we scroll through these photos. What were these people like? What were their daily joys and their daily challenges like? What might they think of the joys and challenges we face today? If we lived at the same time as they did, do you think you might have been friends?

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One recent digital trend that we are lucky to enjoy for some of the photos on this list is digital colorization and restoration, but more on that in a bit.

#1 A Man In Traditional Dress In Kestri, Greece, 1912

Image credits: Александр Горелов

#2 Actress Miss Gabrielle Ray, Circa 1900

Image credits: Peter Carew

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#1 A Man In Traditional Dress In Kestri, Greece, 1912

#2 Actress Miss Gabrielle Ray, Circa 1900

#3 Scientists Studying Moon Phases On Models In Preparation For Us Manned Flight To Moon, 1962

#4 Charlie Chaplin Was Ahead Of His Time, 1922. This Is One Of The Earlier Distracted Boyfriend Situations On Film

#5 A Native American, Belonging To The Ojibwe People, Spear Fishing In A Lake Somewhere In Minnesota, United States. Photograph Taken In 1908

#6 Anne Frank At School

#7 1948 – Scottish Ballerina Moira Shearer Plays Dancer Victoria Page In The Classic Film ‘The Red Shoes’

#8 Police Officer, Germany, 1925

#9 A Young Family In Martin Place, Sydney – Australia, (1950s)

#10 Formal Portraits Rarely Featured Smiles, But They Can Be Found In Photographs Of Daily Life During This Period

#11 A Group Of Breaker Boys At The Woodward Coal Mines In Kingston, Pennsylvania, Pose For A Photograph. Photograph Taken In C. 1900

#12 Bell Labs Experimental Video Phone 1960s

#13 A Young Joseph Stalin In 1911

#14 A Baby Learning How To Walk In A Wicker Frame As Mom Does Laundry. 1910s

#15 Albert Einstein Posing For A Photograph In Zurich, Switzerland At The Age Of 24 In 1903

#16 A 1936 Drought Refugee From Polk, Missouri, Awaiting The Opening Of Orange Picking Season In Porterville, California

#17 Lisa Fonssagrives At The Eiffel Tower, 1939

#18 Algeria Algeria ?? 1940_1960 Muslim Couple And European Couple Two Stories Civilization Religion But One Country

#19 Star Wars Cast Out Of Costumes: Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) And Kenny Baker (R2-D2). 1977

#20 Damascus Gate, One Of The Main Gates Of The Old City Of Jerusalem. Ottoman Empire, 1890

#21 A Family Plays On A Unique Four Person Homemade Swing In Finland, 1954

#22 Ernest Hemingway On The Steps Of His Cuban Estate Finca Vigia, Nuzzling One Of His Beloved Polydactyl Cats; San Francisco De Paula, Circa 1954

#23 A Man Selling Brooms And Baskets. Japan, 1890-1896

#24 Whirling Horse, A Sioux Native American Man. Photographed By Gertrude Käsebier, C.1900

#25 A Young Kiowa (Kiawah) Woman In Native Dress

#26 4.5 Megabytes Of Data In 62,500 Punched Cards, 1955

#27 Assembling Sears & Roebuck Catalogs In 1942

#28 Children Playing In Paris 1938

#29 Worker And Supervisor At A Car Factory, Moścow, Soviet Union, 1954

#30 Bruce Lee Teaching His Son, Brandon, Martial Arts At An Early Age. 1960s

#31 Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

#32 A Newsstand On 23rd And 6th Avenue In New York City Photographed In C. 1903

#33 A U.s Rural Mailman In 1914

#34 Participants In The Miss Beautiful Eyes Beauty Pageant, Paris, 1930

#35 A 22-Year-Old Theodore Roosevelt Photographed During His College Years At Harvard. Taken In C. 1880

#36 An Early 20th-Century Sail Wagon In Brooklyn, New York

#37 A Car Teeters At The Top Of A Paternoster Parking Elevator As A Result Of A Broken Bolt In Denver, Colorado, 1970s

#38 A Ford Model T Descending A Hill In San Francisco, Circa 1921

#39 Japanese Mother And Child, 1866

#40 Newly Married Couple On Their Wedding Day, Germany (1901)

#41 Automated Ordering At The Track Fast Food Restaurant. Los Angeles, California, USA. 1949

#42 Lunch In A Kindergarten On The Seashore. Sevastopol, May 1944. Evgeny Khaldey

#43 Dog Child, A North West Mounted Police Scout, And His Wife, The Only Handsome Woman, Members Of The Blackfoot Nation, Gleichen, Alberta, Ca. 1890

#44 In The Victorian Era, The Woman’s Hair Was Considered An Important Part Of Her Appearance And It Marked Her Status And Her Femininity

#45 37th President Of The United States, Richard Nixon, And World Famous Singer, Elvis Presley, Meeting And Shaking Hands In The Oval Office In The White House In Washington, D.c. On 21 October 1970

#46 28-Year-Old Robert Leroy Parker, Better Known As Butch Cassidy, Photographed In 1894

#47 Alex Majoli A Patient And A Care Worker Lie In The Sun. Leros, Dodecanese Islands, Greece. 1994. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos

#48 Digging Graves As A Hobby (1916)

#49 Actress Julie Adams Being Treated After Hitting Her Head During The Filming Of “Creature From The Black Lagoon”, 1954

#50 Men Stand In 45-Ton Steel Pipe Over The Hoover Dam, 1935

#51 Picture Circa 1900s Showing Knife Grinders Also Called Ventres Jaunes (Yellow Stomachs Referring To The Yellow Dust Released By The Grinding Wheel). Laying Down Was Done To Prevent Backs From Being Hunched All Day

#52 A Corvette Mako Shark II, 1965

#53 Bandstand And Promenade. Newcastle, Co Down, Northern Ireland C1910

#54 A Great Look At An Officer With His Indian Motorcycle In 1924, Washington D.c

#55 A Captured Russian T-28 Tank With A Finnish Crew Driving Through The Village Of Lappee, Finland On The 8 July 1941

#56 A French Soldier Giving A British Soldier A Shave In A Dugout In Boezinge, Belgium On 19 August 1917

#57 Tokyo Subway Pushers 1968: Stationmasters And Station Staff Push Passengers Into Train During Rush Hour At Shinjiku Station In Tokyo

#58 Manchester City Player Mike Summerbee Demonstrating The Built- In Record Player Of His New Volvo P1800 (1967)

#59 A Swedish Bride, C.1880

#60 30-Year-Old John F. Kennedy In 1947

#61 A Well-Dressed Young Lady In The 1930s

#62 Mike Tyson, Eddie Murphy And Charlie Murphy, 1991

#63 Concorde’s Cockpit. One Of The Most Complex Cockpits In History. Concorde Required A Minimum Flight Crew Of Three, With A Flight Engineer Working Alongside The Two Pilots

#64 A Happy Family Taking Home Their Book Haul From The Cincinnati Library Bookmobile In 1940

#65 1948 Tucker Torpedo Model 48 4-Door Sedan

#66 Mrs. Handy With Vegetables She Has Just Canned. Scotland, Maryland In 1940

#67 Egyptian Men With A Fallen Statue Of Ramses II, The Late 1800s

#68 Nellie Brown, An African-American Cowgirl, C.1880s

#69 Australia 1900: The Circumstances Of This Photo Are Lost To History. The Description Simply Says “A Woman Holding A Stuffed Rooster, Sydney, Approximately 1900”

#70 1976 Photo From The Restaurant Windows On The World, Which Sat Atop New York City’s World Trade Center’s North Tower

#71 Burger Chef, C. 1970

#72 One Of The First Photos Taken Of Tutankhamun’s Tomb When It Was Opened After More Than 3,000 Years

#73 A Street Scene In Chicago, Illinois, Photographed By Bill Strum In 1947

#74 26th President Of The United States, Theodore Roosevelt, Who’s Term Spanned From 1901 When Mckinley Was Assassinated, To 1909

#75 Miniature Golf At Tailors Shop Bettmann

#76 4c Phantom Of The Alabama Ang Over St. Louis, 1993

#77 A Yarding Crew With A Donkey Engine Used For Yarding Or Gathering Logs Together After They Are Cut. Somewhere Deep In The Woods Of Washington – 1900

#78 President John F Kennedy Visitng Austin Texas In The Early 60s

#79 Bedouin Men Smokıng A Nargila (Waterpipe) At Their Desert Camp, Ca. 1900

#80 Spacelander: “The Bicycle Of The Future”. The British Industrial Designer Benjamin Bowden Showing Off Spacelander In 1946