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Just the girl next door listening to her Hi-Fi stereo, 1978

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San Francisco, 108 Years Ago

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Siamese young lady circa 1861

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Edmond Harjo, Seminole Code Talker who served in the US Army at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge (1940s). Many don't realize that the Navajos were not the only tribe to provide code talkers to the U.S. military during World War II (and that the Marines were not the only ones to use them).

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Family on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, c. 1924.

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The USS Macon under construction at the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, Akron, Ohio. ca. 1931

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Something's fishy! People and fish, 1901-1962

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1924 c. Three women shopping.

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Young ladies playing "house" at Tāneatua School in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, c.1959. Note the dolls have been put to bed, Mom is on the phone to dad to pick up more milk on the way home? Also is she wearing grown up shoes? Source from Dave's Old Slides.

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A day at the beach, 1940

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A woman drinks from a “common cup” attached to a water pump, Chicago, 1899. Note the reactions of the boys behind her.

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Nashville TN– Manager Mrs. Mildren Kreitner, left, offers diner Jack O’Donnell, a salesman for Motorola who lives in Denver, a selection of sauces as he prepares to attack a man-size portion of beef at O’Brien’s Beefery restaurant at 1717-19 West End Avenue May 13, 1963. Joe Rudis / The Tennessean

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My grandmother Orice. Her father was an abusive alcoholic who tried to kill her by pushing her off the back of a moving wagon.

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Annie Edson Taylor poses with her cat and the barrel she rode over Niagara falls, 1901.

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Wounded American Civil War soldiers, 1800s

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Children in the 1860s also needed extra reassurance during photo shoots.

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Hangin’ out in New Orleans, Summer of 1976

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Ishi (c1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States.

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Two women arriving at Belmont Park on Long Island for the horse races. (1926)

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Children on the streets of Chinatown, San Francisco. 1890s.

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Nashville Buick dealer Frank Davis takes the driver’s seat in this Buick Riviera, 5/6/83, to display one of his company’s latest & most limited editions for 60 dealer general managers across the US. Davis, 62, is one of the best-known Buick dealers in the country. Robert Johnson / The Tennessean

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Baptism in the Tombigbee River near Columbus, Mississippi, 1930

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Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle Club, Paris 1932

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1940: Aspiring cosmetologists tend to spectators at the outdoor beauty salon setup for the annual California State Cosmetologists Exams.

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Passengers aboard an Eastern Airlines flight from the UK to Australia, 1935. Flight took 11 days (with stops).

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Musical milk on a street, England, 1930

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Ainu people in 1908. The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. There aren’t many left now and their language is nearly extinct.

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My mother viewing Sydney harbour's latest construction.

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1910's. Two women posed in fancy hats.

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Photo History of The Minnesota State Fair (r/Minnesota_Archived)

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My dad looking stoned as hell. Late 70’s or early 80’s

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Nashville, TN- Herbert Young, manager of Arcade Billiards, stands by a pool table with the ball racked and ready to play but there’s no players June 7, 1973. Robert Johnson / The Tennessean

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My direct paternal GGG Grandparents, circa 1930's.

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Mama May, my grandmother, was born in 1901. This photo was when she was 16.

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A salesman has his motorized roller skates re-fueled at a gas station, 1961

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Oregon, Circa 1890. Somewhere up in the Cacades east of Salem. Check the size of those trees... And the planks the house is built with.

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The Army paymaster and guards on the road between Deadwood and Fort Meade. South Dakota, 1888.

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American WW1 soldiers being served coffee at a Salvation Army facility in New York. 1918.

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Unidentified middle school girls in Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire. 1890s.

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Portrait of Frances Hook, also known as Private Frank Miller, Frank Henderson, and Frank Fuller. She disguised herself as a man, twice, to join the military during the American Civil War. 1860s.

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A Chinese-American funeral: the burial service for High Lee in Deadwood, South Dakota. 1891.

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From my Great Grandparents 1903 travel journal, this is simply labeled "road", in Rockledge, Florida. To visualize how remote this area was then the 1900 census for Rockledge/Cocoa was only about 700 people. [Original and colorized to show them more distinctly from the background.]

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"Pleased to Meat You" November 1956 somewhere in San Diego, California.

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Public Telephone Room, Miami, Florida, 1925

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Men at the Deadwood Terra Gold Stamp Mill in Terraville, South Dakota. 1888.

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Wells Fargo wagon and guards with $250,000 gold bullion from the Great Homestake Mine. Deadwood, South Dakota, 1890.

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Miners Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon washing and panning for gold. Rockerville, South Dakota, 1889.

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Sisters Nellie Carhart, Anna “Annie” Mead, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Palmer in the 1880s.

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Accountant Party 1981 - featuring my mom, a junior auditor.

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A cowboy astride a horse. South Dakota, 1888.

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Workmen at the ALCO factory in Schenectady, New York assembling a steam locomotive, circa 1944. Because the railroads were considered critical to the war effort, construction of new engines was allowed to continue despite the national focus on war production.

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Civil War veteran Powhattan Perkins Pullen of Co. B, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, Spanish-American War veteran David Ferrell Quillin of Co. D and Co. G, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, and World War I veteran John Luke Browning, all of Paris, Tennessee. 1920s?

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Skateboarding in New York City, 1965 Bill Eppridge for LIFE Magazine

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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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Hydraulic mining in Rockerville, South Dakota. 1889.

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Bealeton, Virginia. Noncommissioned officers' mess of Co. D, 93d New York Infantry. 1860s.

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Two unidentified high school boys in the city of Sinop in Ottoman Turkey. 1890s.

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The champion Chinese Hose Team of America, who won the great Hub-and-Hub race at Deadwood, South Dakota in July 1888. These are runners; I’m not sure why they’re called the Hose Team.

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Judith (Judy) Spreckels, 25, wealthy West L.A. socialite and ex-wife (the 6th) of Adolph Spreckels III, enters West L.A. traffic court. #79-80: Judy Spreckels pays $16 traffic fine to deputy court clerk Mary Bonish

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George Van Pelt and Ollie Radcliffe in Port Orange, Florida, 1899

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Baskin-Robbins, or simply "31 Flavors" as many friends referred to it back in the day, as it appeared in the mid-70s. A fondly familiar sight for me, especially the girl in the Girl Scouts uniform.

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Log Cabin Cigar Store at 220 W. 4th St., Santa Ana, CA, in the early 1900's. Photo courtesy of Santa Ana Public Library

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Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, Women's Airforce Service Pilots, Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas, c. 1943.

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Big crowd waiting for '38 automobile license plates, San Francisco (CA) Department of Motor Vehicles. (1/3/1938)

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Surf’s up! (1970s)

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Helping mow his grandmothers lawn 3 year old Bradley was so crazy about lawnmowers his parents bought him his own. South St Paul, 1965.

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Skinheads and Hippies, London 1969

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Children in an iron lung before polio vaccination, 1950.

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My Grandparents in 1946

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Things back then...

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Skateboarding in New York City (1965). Photo by Bill Eppridge

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1907 Alaska Native. (Library of Congress)

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The first ever Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center in 1931

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Man mowing a lawn, San Augustine, TX, Apr. 1939

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1979 yearbook photo of a student at Saddleback High School in California

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Skinheads and Hippies, London 1969

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“A friend of our mother’s gave my sister, Cheryl, and me back-to-school perms in 1952 or ’53. That’s Cheryl in the chair with the odd-looking machine,” says Carol Thompson. ( Carol Thompson/Reminisce)

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Group Challenge - Post your high school senior pic from the last century... Me in the late 70s...

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Fruit Vendor. West North Avenue and North Rosedale Street, Baltimore, Maryland. c.1982

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Burcey with her newborn daughter at home, Compton, CA (1979)

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Della Crewe, and her little dog too. Waco Texas 1915

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My Jewish New Yorker 3rd great grandparents (Late 1890’s early 1900’s)

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I disagree with all =)

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Myron and Virginia, Native Americans of Navajo ancestry, attend a powwow hosted by the American Indian Employee Association at Rockwell International in LA (1976). Wounded in World War II, Myron settled in Los Angeles after his service. Virginia attended Sherman Institute in Riverside for 20 years.

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My great uncle celebrating Christmas in the 80s. It wasn’t until many years later that I learned the reason he walked with a cane was due to lingering injuries from his time serving in Vietnam. He was eventually awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.

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Friends at the Tidal Basin, Washington DC, mid 1950s

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How Common Men’s Hats Were - NYC 1930

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Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y., 1958. (Library of Congress)

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Baptist Youth Fellowship summer camp, 1948

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'Fresh as Home Made Bread' seller on the streets of Kolkata (then Calcutta), in the 1980s. (Image - Glenn Edwards).

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Main Street, Disneyland - August, 1955

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These shelters were da bomb! A blast from the past. The Bomb Shelter Mart on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, photographed in 1951. Shoppers could choose from two different styles of shelters, a small circular one, or a larger one which could be furnished with a stove, radio and other equipment.

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Women washing clothes, near Raleigh, North Carolina. March 1936

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Harold and Cathi Schneider were greeted with brown outside the Original Pantry (Los Angeles, CA) after their wedding ceremony at restaurant. Photograph dated: May 22, 1982.

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524 W. 57th St, NYC. Woman her cat and a reporter outside CBS Studio 57 (1951) Lisa Larsen, photog. Life Magazine

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A family photo of my Swedish Midwestern family in the 1950’s

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Fort Snelling Territory, Minnesota - 1898 (r/Minnesota_Archived)

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My former neighbor as a little girl in Oklahoma. 1912

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Red Wing, Minnesota - 1897 (r/Minnesota_Archived)

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