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
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