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“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” — Robert Doisneau
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Hitler pin cushions were very popular during the war
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Woman documenting her mourning holding a letter or photo. Circa 1870 tintype.
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Unknown Aussie soldier, WWI, from the Australian War Memorial collection.
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Unknown young man, late nineteenth century
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The National Biscuit Company started selling Oreos on March 6, 1912.
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Smoke and Booze...why don't they look happier???
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Tim Leighton Good question, Carol.
Dee Dee Have you ever noticed that a lot of those old time pics they never smiled. It's like they were told not to....
Dee Dee Have you ever noticed in those old time pictures they never smile. It's like they were told not to...
Jamie Miranda My grandfather said, after seeing a picture of him when he was a little boy..with his mom and dad, that they really were told not to smile. Even as children if they got caught smiling they were told to cut it out. "life is hard, there aint no reason to smile about it" is what he was told as a kid. ...
Belle Coyle There's more to it than that. It took time for a picture to be taken, holding a smile for 5 minutes isn't as easy as it sounds. Plus they were emulating what they knew, which were paintings...not too many people smiling in those either.
A typical telephone-exchange switchboard, ca. 1943. "War calls come first."
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Washington, D.C., 1926. "Industrial Exposition. Frank R. Porter -- booth at auditorium." There's a "desk radio" and a table-top crystal set. With neighboring displays on telephone etiquette and the Morris Plan Bank. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Beautiful Edwardian girl in beautiful Edwardian dress.
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Howard Johnson's fabulous sign
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Therese Oneill I hear so much about what a wonderful place HoJo's was back in the day...I've never even seen one. Maybe it's an east coast thing.
Carol Shepko They had the best New England clam chowder.
Linda Austin We had them in Texas, and they had the most amazing mint chocolate chip ice cream!!!
"Sarah Bernhardt making a photograph record." The Boy’s Book of Inventions. Roy Stannard Baker, 1908.
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Repairing the Hull of the Graf Zeppelin during the flight over the Atlantic, 1934
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Black Cat Enamel Stove Polish Products, USA (1920). [I wonder if cleaning a stove was as much fun then as it is now.]
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September 1938. "Farm wife washing clothes. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas." 35mm negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.
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Ice Conditions at Niagara Falls, Winter 1888. Collection Francis J. Petrie
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"Stenographers' room, Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co., Detroit." It's always helpful to have a calendar in the room when dating a photo, and here we've hit the jackpot. In fact the main focus of this room seems to be calendars, with paperweights a strong second.
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Washington, D.C., 1912. "Government Printing Office -- views." The G.P.O. a century ago. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
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A group of cross-dressing women in 1910
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A woman bids her boyfriend goodbye, as he leaves to fight in World War I. 1914.
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Household Utensils: Includes (top to bottom): Bread cutter, coffee roaster, carpet sweeper, knife cleanser, wringer and mangle, spice box. [Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management: A Guide to Cookery in all Branches. 1907.]
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“Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. & Mrs. Fair” / Oct 1920 / Real Photo Postcard
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Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894-1978), Cornelia Street Kitchen, 1944, Toned gelatin silver print
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Girl in native dress, Carniola Austro-Hungary, 1900 photochrom
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Fan Ho “The Search,” 1960 From Hong Kong Yesterday.
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The Dentist and His Patient [★] by AtypicalArt
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Betty Smith Glad I didn't live back then....
Rollerskating to work, during the General Strike, UK, 1926
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Francis Frith, The Pyramids of Dahshoor [c. 1858]
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Patricia Glover He resembles Nicholas Cage!