The American Look in 1945 according to the department store, Lord & Taylor
Picking lingonberries, 1908, Sweden.
Information desk at John F. Kennedy Airport (1956)
A photo of the 1988 Olympic Jamaican bobsled team whose story became the basis for the film Cool Runnings.
1st grade nap time
Macy’s department store detectives posing for a picture with their backs turned so as not to reveal their identity.
Young ladies in bathing suits of the time in the beach of Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia, circa 1890.
Irish woman in a weaver machine doing Poplin with one hand for multiple rolls, circa 1890s
On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to leave the Soviet Union.
Woman on her wedding day, 1931.
Average American family, Detroit, Michigan, 1954. All this on a Ford factory worker’s wages!
School report from 1957
Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 1948
A mother and her 10 daughters, Boston, 1952
100 year old lady grinding coffee in her kitchen, Pitsburgh, April 1953
Saloon from the 1900s
Teenagers’ marriage criteria from Progressive Farmer October 1955
Woolworths, Sydney AU, 1960. An entire supermarket with practically no plastic yet. Everything is in cardboard or foil, wax-paper, tin, glass bottles with metal caps, – and biodegradable wasn’t even a thing.
The Birthday Party. 1953.
Irish family posing with their 7 children, March 1908
An Inuit who warms his wife’s feet. 1880-1890s
NYC, 1971
Halloween 1977
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