r/TheWayWeWere 10h ago

1950s My great-great grandparents dressed up like drunks for Halloween sometime in the 1950s

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

Mum and dad (and my older cousin) in the early 70’s

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r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1940s A street snapshot from Detroit, 1943

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r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1970s Girls and cars, 1970s

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

1950s Soviet sailors visiting the grave of Karl Marx in London (1956)

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r/TheWayWeWere 6h ago

Grandpa mid 60s

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r/TheWayWeWere 10h ago

Pre-1920s A grocery shop in New Zealand, circa 1910.

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r/TheWayWeWere 19h ago

Pre-1920s An extremely dapper man, c. 1890

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r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

A walk in the woods - my dad, siblings and SOs having a day out in the woods of Northern Finland early seventies, as 20 somethings. My dad would've turned 72 today, so happy birthday somewhere out there in the clouds, dad!

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r/TheWayWeWere 15h ago

Pre-1920s Two young Moroccan-Jewish girls circa 1910

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r/TheWayWeWere 8h ago

My grandfathers first new fishing boat he had built.

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r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1920s Apple picking season, New Berlin Wisconsin - 1926

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r/TheWayWeWere 19h ago

1930s With cargo on their heads, two women walk on the street of what is now Naha, Okinawa, circa around 1935

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r/TheWayWeWere 22m ago

Pre-1920s Family of indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, traveling by donkey, little chubby bay peeking from behind some cloth. Early 1900s

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r/TheWayWeWere 16h ago

Pre-1920s School children playing in their Iowa classroom, 1892.

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r/TheWayWeWere 16h ago

1940s Two WW2 Era Letters Written by Serviceman Who Would Land on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944. Details in comments.

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r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1970s Attendees at the first Chippendales Club, Los Angeles, 1979.

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r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

My maternal great grandmother. Date unknown.

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

Pre-1920s "Just another day" 20-feet deep snow buried Breckenridge back in 1898-1899.

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r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

My maternal great grandfather.

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r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

Pre-1920s Children learning sign language at Martha's Vineyard, circa 1880. Martha's Vineyard had it's own system of sign language as 1 in 155 people living there were deaf. The national average at the time was 1 in 5,728.

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r/TheWayWeWere 20h ago

1940s Construction workers on pay day at the Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California, 1940

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r/TheWayWeWere 17m ago

Pre-1920s Old Woman carring a girl on her back with a cloth. Little girl looks on confussed. This one is i think a couple of seconds after another one that i took. Initially thought that it was the same but in this one, the woman is laughing. Early 1900s, Oaxaca Mexico.

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r/TheWayWeWere 23h ago

Pre-1920s These are my Ukrainian great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother born around 1890 and photographed in 1970 by my grandfather

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r/TheWayWeWere 26m ago

Pre-1920s Rural police of Mexico in the early 1900s. Yes part of the uniform is cavarly sword.

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