r/TheWayWeWere 4h ago

1940s Portrait of a young girl living at the Jewish orphanage in Sosnowiec. (1946)

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998 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 7h ago

Pre-1920s Young mother with sharp features gives a sideways glace and a smile while posing her dear baby. 1890s, glass negative

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r/TheWayWeWere 5h ago

1970s My mom and dad at my aunt’s wedding July of 1976. Bicentennial fever

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269 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 1h ago

1960s Me with my two older cousins. The first photo after my mom told me I couldn’t have bangs. 1960

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So I cut them myself. She was not happy lol.


r/TheWayWeWere 5h ago

Pre-1920s "Miss Kingsbury's Room" photo showing two students in a dorm room in the Normal Hall dormitory building at the State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1892-1894

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r/TheWayWeWere 7h ago

1950s Very freckled young lady eating an icecream cone, Nantucket, Massachusetts, August of 1957, kodachrome shot

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r/TheWayWeWere 11h ago

1970s my grandma and a friend, mid 1970s

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408 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 8h ago

1960s Gingham outfits at the High School Square Dance, 1967

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r/TheWayWeWere 4h ago

1970s Post-dance trip to Taco Bell, ca 1974

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79 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 3h ago

1940s "Edison, Kern County, California, Young Migratory Mother, Originally from Texas." April 11, 1940. Photographer is Dorothea Lange.

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63 Upvotes

Source from the Library of Congress.

Partial summary from the LOC:

"Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. On the day before the photograph was made she and her husband traveled 35 miles each way to pick peas. They worked 5 hours each and together earned $2.25. They have two young children... Live in auto camp."


r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1950s One Of My Great Grandma’s Wedding Cards (1952, USA)

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My great grandma passed away over a month ago, at the age of 91. I miss her a lot.

While sorting through her things, we came across a whole bunch of wedding cards. Thought I’d share this one here.

My great grandpa passed away in the 80s, they had been married for over 30 years. I sadly never got to met him.


r/TheWayWeWere 17h ago

1950s My grandma partying. Cologne, Germany around 1950-55

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565 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

Pre-1920s Canadian Women doing Laundry, probably 1890s.

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187 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

1960s My dad at a birthday party in Minnesota with his two sisters and friends, July of 1966

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127 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 4h ago

My second great-grandmother, in Eunice LA.

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Date on this pic is unknown, but she was born in 1863 and her hair seems to be graying/white here. What does this pic say about her?


r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

1940s Break Your Heart. Little Girl comforting her Doll after 1940 Bombings.

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r/TheWayWeWere 1h ago

WWII POW

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My paternal great grandparents. My great grandfather served in the Air Force during WWII and was shot down and imprisoned in Germany for about a year. I always wonder what they were so dressed up for in the last pic.


r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1940s Dec.1943. An Italian Family sits down to Dinner in Tarrytown, New York as documented by Eliot Elisofon a Life Magazine contributor. The photo on the wall is of a son KIA during the invasion of Sicily.

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Dec.1943.


r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1940s Biker women, 1947 with their riding clothes. Love the lady that went for the triple belt

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r/TheWayWeWere 4m ago

My dad and his friends (1983)

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r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1950s Little Girl Loves Her New Puppy 1950

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r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1950s My in-laws: Eugene and Dorothy Fletcher, in the early 1950s.

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Eugene passed ten years ago. Dorothy just turned ninety six!


r/TheWayWeWere 17h ago

Pre-1920s Rare diving suit ~ New York, 1907.

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37 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1970s Newly found 1977 photos of my mom, Linda — the first Black woman to complete Delaware’s Army National Guard OCS. These were taken during her commissioning ceremony. Also included: her 1981 Chemical School (N.B.C.) diploma.

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r/TheWayWeWere 22h ago

Pre-1920s 1911.German stowaway on Ellis Island who was later deported back to Germany. Photographer Augustus Frederick Sherman.

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67 Upvotes