Students participating in cooking class at Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, 1935.
Bathing machines
Bathing machines were 18th–19th century wooden carts that let women change and enter the sea unseen, preserving strict modesty rules while men bathed freely on the shore. Rolled into the water by horse or human power, these carts sometimes had canvas tents for extra privacy, with bathers signaling for retrieval by raising a small flag.
Coca-Cola delivery wagon. Jackson, Mississippi, 1900.
A young boy and his dog from 1889.
Harley-Davidson motorcycle ambulance, 1920.
A man and his bicycle, ca. 1920.
Lady taking a mirror selfie with a Kodak camera, 12 February 1909.
Unemployed at their huts in a Hooverville in New York City, 1935.
Piano especially designed for people confined to bedrest, Great Britain, 1935.
Women demonstrate what could be purchased for $1.34 in 1918 and 1945.
A boy pouring a bucket of coal into a heating stove in their classroom, Claiborne County, Tennessee (1940).
Men gamble over a game of Faro inside a saloon. Arizona, 1900.
A couple with a Ford Model T in the early 1900s.
Beach view of Essex, England in August of 1918. With ladies in their bathing suits.
Thea Alba doing her Multi-tasking Act, Berlin, Germany, 1 January 1925.
Womens high jump at the London, Olympics, July of 1908.
United Airlines stewardesses checking their weight, 1930s.
Requirements for the first hires were strict. They had to be graduate nurses, unmarried, no older than 25, no taller than 5 feet four inches, and weigh no more than 115 pounds.
Young lady smiles in her fancy shirt, circa 1890s.
Paris, circa 1900.
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