Family watching a drive-in movie in their 1941 Buick coupe, 1940s

A couple tunes into the TV, 1950s

Recovering from New Year’s Eve celebrations on the steps of Grand Central Station, New York, circa 1940

Cotton mill girls, Kosciusko, Mississippi, 1913

Gun safety being taught in a rural school, Indiana, 1956

Firefighter wearing König’s smoking helmet with water spray, Hamburg-Altona, Germany, 1900s

Two young women oxy-welding parts of ammunition boxes in South Australia, 1943

The iceman delivering a 25-pound block of ice, Houston, Texas, 1928

Actress Belle Bilton in her role as the Beauty in “Beauty and the Beast,” 1889

A young boy greets his father, a soldier allowed to return home for Christmas, 1944

This is how traffic was controlled before electric lights

Old-school Baltimore soda stand with all prices visible, circa 1920s

A businessman watches Ed Sullivan from a hotel room in San Francisco, December 1958

Logging in Idaho — one man stands over hundreds of felled trees headed to the mill, 1940

Two Tlingit girls photographed near the Copper River, Alaska, 1903

Children sleeping on a New York City fire escape to escape summer heat, early 1900s

Portrait of three ladies modeling the latest fashion by Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix, circa 1908

Lunchtime at Pete’s Bar in Lower Manhattan, 1950

Girls opening their big haul of Christmas presents, 1970s

8th-grade class picture

In the 1930s, bowling alleys used teen pinsetters to keep games moving










