The good old days are the greatest. There is no better setting to feel nostalgic than through vintage photographs.
The following pictures are from a subreddit called “The Way We Were,” where users post vintage images and scans of old papers about the past. So, if you want to go on a trip down memory lane or learn about how things were in the past, there’s enough information here to bring back old memories!
More info: Reddit
#1 “Sits Down Spotted”- Crow Nation, Fort Keogh, Montana, 1881. Photo By L.A. Huffman
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#2 A Young Woman Posing For A Studio Portrait, Kentucky, Circa 1890-1910
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#3 My Mother Rose, June 16, 1959
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#4 Kids Protesting The Dst. New York, 1939
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#5 My Grandma And Uncle In Iran, April 1971
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#6 Young Woman Dressed For An Evening Out, Detroit, 196
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#7 “Cairo Mary,” Bouncer At Shanghai Reds (5th And Beacon In San Pedro, Ca) Escorts A Customer To The Door. 1953
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#8 My Grandfather And His Horse, Ruby. 1940’s
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#9 My Kitty … Harlem, NY, 1949
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#10 Children In A Traditional Minobashi Raincoat Going To A New Year’s Event, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 1956
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#11 An Elderly Woman Reading A Book With A Cat On Her Lap, 1944
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#12 My Great Grandmother In Her 50s Probably Taken Around The 70s Or 80s
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#13 A Photo Of Central Park In NYC During The Great Depression (1933)
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#14 Adelaide Springett, Who Was So Ashamed At The State Of Her Boots She Took Them Off, Stand For A Photograph In London, 1901. Photo By Horace Warner
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#15 Three Young Ladies Posing With A Friend. Circa 1930
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#16 Mother And Son. Lisdoonvarna, Ireland C. 1890
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#17 Four Generations, Circa 1905, Location Unknown
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#18 The Fate And Feet Of Three Chinese Girls – A Bare Footed Slave, A Girl With Bound Feet, And A Christian With Unbound Feet – Ca. Early 1900s
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#19 My Grandfather And Friends In The Amache Internment Camp In Colorado, Circa 1942. He Was About 15 When This Photo Was Taken; He Passed Away Last Month At 94
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#20 A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, Ca. 1930. “I Left School To Earn $21 A Week. My Teacher’s Pay Is $17.78 A Week.” Photo: Paul Thompson
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#21 Isaac And Rosa, Emancipated Slave Children From New Orleans, 1863
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#22 Butterfly Boy, New York City, 1949
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#23 My Jute Weaver Great-Grandmother And Children (Including My Granny Standing At The Back). Dundee, Scotland 1915
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#24 1930 – My Second Great Aunt Sara (Right) And Her Mother Manuela (Sitting) And Aunt Emilia. Caja Espíritu, Huancavelica, Perú. The Only Photo That Exists Of Mama Manuela.
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#25 (1964) Engineer Karen Leadlay Working On The Analog Computers In The Space Division Of General Dynamics
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#26 A Casual Portrait Of A Woman Smiling, 1880
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#27 A Man With His Cat, Early 1900s
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#28 This Kid Is A Water Heater For Halloween, Circa 1979
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#29 Little Girl Roaring At A Stuffed Grizzly Bear At The Sportsman’s Show In The Chicago Coliseum. Chicago, Illinois, 1967
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#30 High School Life In The 1970s
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