Old photos can transport you back to the past like nothing else. Whenever you’re nostalgic, you can just open a photo album and let those memories flood you. It might also tell a story if you’re not the person in the picture.

The subreddit r/TheWayWeWere creates bittersweet, nostalgic emotions, similar to opening up a photo album. In the group, people share their most cherished moments from the past in a photo format. Without further ado, check out our collection of these memorable pics.

#1 Native Woman And Child. King Island, Alaska. Photo Taken Between 1915 And 1925

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#2 My Grandmother In Her First Portrait, 1886

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#3 Farm Boy With A Newly-Born Lamb :: 1940

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#4 Lace Making In Brittany France 1920

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#5 Biracial Family Circa 1900

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#6 My Grandparents’ Marriage (1951, Tripoli, Libya). Today Is Their 72nd Wedding Anniversary And They Are Still Going Strong!

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#7 My In-Laws In The Early ‘70’s

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#8 Young Woman Dressed For An Evening Out, Detroit, 1968

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#9 A Little Girl Sits On The Lap Of Her Great-Great Grandmother, Mississippi, C. 1936

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#10 Proud Community Grocery Store Owner, Harlem, 1940

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#11 Dancing In Paris, Circa 1951

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#12 Couple, Photo Booth, 1960s

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#13 My Dad As A Baby In 1928. This Little Guy Lived To Be 94! He Had A Very Good Life

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#14 Mommy’s Girls, C. 1940’s

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#15 Navajo Girl Wearing Silver And Turquoise Squash Blossom Jewelry, 1950

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#16 The Closed Bed, Or Box Bed, Was A Traditional Piece Of Furniture. In Houses With Only One Room, The Box Bed Allowed A Certain Intimacy And Helped To Keep Warm During The Winter. Due To Fashion And The Cost Of Their Manufacture, Box Beds Were Gradually Abandoned In The 19th And 20th Centuries

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#17 Damascus, Syria Mid 1970s

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#18 There Were No Mobile Phones In The 1970′s, So Students In This Girls’ Dormitory Often Lined Up To Make Calls To Friends And Family

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#19 Teddy Girls In 1955 – Their Subculture Centred Around A Still-Bomb-Damaged London

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#20 Young Couple At A Club In Mali. Photo By Malick Sidibé Dec. 24, 1963

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#21 Me Posing With My Sweet Grandmother Sixty-Four Years Ago Today On The Occasion Of My Fifth Birthday, 1958

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#22 Woodcutter Spending His Saturday Night At A Bar In Craigville, Minnesota (1937)

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#23 My Grandfather In His Recliner Next To The Old Wood Stove. 1980. He Was 86

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#24 My Mother Working As A Secretary In Los Angeles County, 1980

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#25 Woman Talking On A Payphone, 1980s

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#26 At The Puppet Show, Paris 1963

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#27 My Mom On Her Wedding Day, 1947

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#28 My 17 Year Old Mom On Her Wedding Day In 1966

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#29 Beach Party, 1970s

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#30 The Panama Slide In Coney Island After It Was Built In 1908. Very Popular At Time, Especially With Adults!

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#31 My Grandmother At 16 , The Japanese Had Already Invaded Guam And At 14 She Was Assigned To Take “Care” Of Japanese Officers

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#32 Greenland Tots. 1973

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#33 My Life’s Journey, From A Kid In The 1950’s To Current Day. I’ll Be 68 This Year. It’s Been A Great Ride

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#34 My Great Grandmother’s Portrait Probably Taken Sometime In The 1920s

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#35 Te Ata,“Bearer Of The Morning”, Of The Chickasaw Nation Was Born In 1895, Near Emet, Oklahoma. She Was A Storyteller For 60 Years, Relating The Myths, Legends And Chants Of Her People, While Also Pursuing A Stage Career

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#36 My Grandpa Getting Shaved In Ww2 By His Buddy

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#37 Star Trek Show Crew With Enterprise Ship Prop 1964

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#38 Debutante Ball. Harlem, Early 1960s

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#39 5-Year-Old Harold Walker Picks 20 To 25 Pounds Of Cotton A Day, Oklahoma, 1916

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#40 Television Shopping In 1974

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#41 Dating On The Fire Escape, 1946

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#42 My Mom, 1972. She Would Have Been 69 Today

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#43 Verrazano Narrows During Construction, Early 60s

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#44 My Grandparents Wedding Photo From The 1940s. Poor Farmers They Couldn’t Afford A Real Wedding Dress, So Grandma Wore Her Best Sunday Dress Which Happened To Be Navy Blue

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#45 A Couple Of Victorian Travellers, 1890s

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#46 Fireman Rescues Torah Scrolls From A Burning Synagogue, 1940’s

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

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#48 My Dad And His Sisters, Late 1950s. Dad Was The Last To Go- We Lost Him Last Week. ❤️

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#49 I See A Lot Of People Post Flattering Photos Of The Past, This Ain’t One Of Them. Here Is My 5 Year Old Grandmother (Bottom Left) And Her Family In 1924 In Tucker County Wv That I Found In An Ancestry.com Search

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#50 A Boy And His Dog Ready To Go Camping, Southern California, July 1969

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#51 Christmas, 1964, Poor But Happy

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#52 Schoolgirls In Hyde Park Protest Caning, 1972

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#53 My Grandmother, An Appalachian Woman At Heart Always, Born In 1945

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#54 My Mam, Her Whole Life Ahead Of Her, 1970s

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#55 ‘irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954

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#56 Model Wearing Sweater With Heart Pierced By Jeweled Dagger. (1947) Photo By Nina Leen For Life. Colorized

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#57 The Oldest Photo In My Family, Taken Around 1845 Of My 5th Great Grandparents

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#58 Adorable Series Of Mother And Daughter Photographs From 1900

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#59 This Is A Picture Of My Great Grandparents On The Night They Got Engaged. Circa Early 1900s I Believe?

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#60 They Never Should Have Eliminated Nap Time. 1950s

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#61 Children Wearing Straw Capes On Their Way To A New Year’s Event In Niigata, Japan In 1956

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#62 Rural American Life In The First Half Of The 20th Century, By Mike Disfarmer, Whose Life Was A Mystery, And Whose Work Was Only Discovered Posthumously

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#63 Teenagers At An Elvis Presley Rock Concert In Philadelphia, 1957

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#64 My Paternal Grandparents Swimming, 1951

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#65 My Grandpa (Right) Being A Goof With One Of His Shipmates, Wwii

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#66 This Woman On The Beach Has A Very Contemporary Look About Her Despite The Fact The Photo Is From The Mid 1920s

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#67 Class Photo, Missouri Rural School In The 1920′s. Many Bare Feet

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#68 In 1903 My Great Grandparents Family Went On Holiday From Long Island To Florida. In A Journal They Wrote Several Times About The Heat. You Can Almost Feel Their No-Ac Exhaustion In This Photo

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#69 The Unexplained Photo, Circa 1955

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#70 My Grandma, Born 1920, Was In Her 20s Here. She Worked As A “Rosie The Riveter” During Wwii!

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#71 Summer 1979. Me And The Old Man Sitting Down For Lunch

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#72 A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, Ca. 1930. “I Left School To Earn $21 A Week. My Teacher’s Pay Is $17.78 A Week.” Photo: Paul Thompson

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#73 Both Men And Women That Came Along To The Many Divorce Ranches In Nevada, Were Referred To As “Dudes”. These Two Dudes Were Staying At The Flying Me Ranch In Washoe Valley, During Their Respective Divorces. 1947

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#74 My Mom – Italy, 1963

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#75 My Parents In The Mid 1940s. I’ve Always Loved This Picture

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#76 Forced Perspective On The Beach, Circa 1943

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#77 The Crowded Beach Of Atlantic City Photographed In 1908

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#78 At The Beach. 1920’s

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#79 My Grandma In The 1940’s. She’s 99 Years Old Now And Still Going Strong

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#80 Seventeen Year-Old On Her Wedding Day (1956)

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#81 My Great Grandparents On Their Wedding Day, 18 Days Before Pearl Harbor. She Was 22, He Was 20. Both Lived Into The Next Century

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#82 Corona Del Mar High School Students, Newport Beach, California, 1969

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#83 July, 1942: Children Leaving School. Dunklin County, Missouri

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#84 A Moment With My College Dormmates, 1972

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#85 With Her Husband At War, Mom Works On The Woody, Ca. 1944. (Life Magazine)

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#86 My Dad – Family Trip Across Canada 1974

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#87 My Grandfather (Center) On His Family Farm In The Catskills With Some Friends Circa 1915

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#88 Sandwiches For Sale. London, 1972

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#89 My Mom Is Back, This Time Wishing You A Happy First Day Of Winter, And To Confess That She Took All The Tinsel During Christmas 1958

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#90 My Great Grandparents, Together Since High School. This Was About 1945, She Passed Away Last Year

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#91 North Carolina Tobacco Queens In ‘Tobacco Bikinis’, 1950′s

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#92 Photos From Previous Owner Of Our 1953 Home

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#93 Father And Son Goofing Off, 1910s

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#94 People Of New York City At Lunchtime, Photos Taken Circa 1977-1980 By Charles H. Traub

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#95 My Parents When They First Met

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#96 Mom Keeping An Eye On Us Kids While On A Family Road Trip, 1963

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#97 My Great-Grandfather’s Mugshots, After He Was Arrested For Bigamy. December 1926, Australia

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#98 My Father And His Dog “Thunder” In 1929

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#99 Continuous Matter Of Servitude – Airlines Terminal, Atlanta, Ga 1956, 2am Est

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#100 Coal Miner’s Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom ,1938

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#101 Opal Cooper Baking And Canning In The Kitchen Of Her Farmhouse Near Radcliffe, Iowa, September 9, 1957

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#102 1930. My Father, Age 25. He And My Mother Were On A Sight-Seeing Trip From Canton, Ohio To Niagara Falls. (I Think For Their 1-Year Anniversary.) They Stayed Overnight At These Cabins

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#103 Me At Age 17, 1953, Colorised (I Have The Original On My Profile)

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#104 This Great Photo Was Taken Near Allentown, Pennsylvania. I Am Certain Of The Date Because It Is Written On It, February 13, 1905. This Is One Of My Favorites And I Made Wallpaper Out Of It I Liked It So Much

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#105 A Young Girl Holds A Skunk At Summer Camp, 1963

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#106 My Parents In August 1964

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#107 Mugshot Of My 18yo Grandad From 1925

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#108 My Dad At 22-Years Old Cruising With His New Wife (My Mom) In 1958. [oc]

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#109 Yearbook From 1929. The Way High Schoolers Were

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#110 My Grandma When She Was About 40 And A Few Months Before She Passed Away When She Was 90

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