A Look at the Past, At The Way Things Used To Be

Seto groom and bride at their wedding in Värska, Setomaa, Estonia, 1912

 

A rare example where an engineer thought about the mechanic. (1950s)

 

A merchant being pushed in a wheelbarrow down a street in Shanghai, China, 1938

 

2 suspects in police custody following their failed robbery of a Manhattan restaurant, 1956

 

Girl getting a tooth drilled with a portable operated drill, 1900s

 

Girl’s bedroom, Oakland, 1898

 

Navajo herder, 1930s

 

Miner father gives a warm smile to his little baby, Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September 1938

 

Italian woman carrying a box of dry goods in New York, February 1912. Photo by Lewis Hine.

 

2 women working at the telephone switchboard of Junction City, Kansas, 1900

 

The Birthday Party, 1953

 

Two girls sharing a stool in Hollywood at Lee Drugs, 1963

 

5 young ladies wait close to the dance floor on prom night, circa 1950s

 

2 barbers use masks while working due to the Spanish flu crisis, circa 1918

 

Irish mother with her children (7 total — 3 boys, 4 girls), circa 1900

 

Homeless men detained in a London workhouse, forced to chop 448 lbs of wood to pay for their night’s sleep (c. 1900)

 

Children at Leapwood Elementary School, Los Angeles, California, 1970