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

Smog testing with human subjects, 1956

 

One of the first Pro Football teams: The Akron Ohio ‘Centuries’ in 1910

 

In the Mid-20th century, ship cats traveled on boats to weed out rodents and were given passports signed with their paw prints

 

A man having his hair brushed by his wife, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 1948. Photo by Leonard McCombe

 

The “Iter Avto” (1932) – One of the earliest analog car navigation systems

 

The Interior of One of the First Passenger Airliners Ever, the 1919 Farman F.60 Goliath

 

Future Model/Actress Pam Grier posing as the runner up for Miss Colorado. Way before she was an star, (1967)

 

Cigar/Cigarette girl in the lobby of the Dallas, TX Courthouse, 1920s

 

Manhattan before most skyscrapers, 1931.

 

Officials ride in one of the penstock pipes of the soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam; 1935

 

Haircutting in front of plantation store after being paid off on Saturday, Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta 1939.

 

Bookmobile travelling to sparsely populated areas of northwestern Ontario, Canada in order to increase literacy amongst rural children in 1958.

 

Women finishing their shift at todd Eiri dry dock in, Pennzylvania, 1943. during WWII

 

Woman working with gigantic shell in the National Shell Filling Factory No. 6 in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, UK, 1917

 

Pay slip for a half month period in Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company, Exeter Mine, Big Sandy Housing Camp, Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia 1946.

 

Workers standing beneath the massive propellers of the RMS Titanic during its construction, showing their true scale

 

The O’Hare Family From Liverpool and Their 16 Children, 1949

 

Paris, France in 1957

 

A college dorm in the 70s

 

Child Picking Cotton, 1908.