About Histolines

This probably would have been my grandpa’s profile pic if social media was around in the 40s... https://ift.tt/2Kbjkc9 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2KfEDYB

I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972. https://ift.tt/2YAxwPI via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2KkNloJ

Nuns Laughing/Heckling at a Fashionista 1968 https://ift.tt/2GBiDGv via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2MuddkE

My grandfather, c. 1929, refusing to pose for a lakeside picture with his mom and aunts https://ift.tt/2YmOu9a via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2OvgT8l

My Grandma goofing off, 1963. She passed this morning. https://ift.tt/2MsGJah via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2yrPmtB

My Grandma with her family, 1932 https://ift.tt/2MDSniX via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2ytpGNe

Histolines favorites https://ift.tt/3129Kxu Churchill on 7/31/1940 in England and other historical events on this date #onthisday #otd #history #twitterstorians #dh Histolines

In front of the RCA Building, NYC (1953) https://ift.tt/2SS8iv3 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2OwLGBL

New York circa 1905. Newspaper Row - City Hall Park. Headliners include the Tribune, Times and domed New York World (Pulitzer) buildings. https://ift.tt/2YqSV1V via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2Yh8R7i

Jazz musicians Tommy Potter and Charlie Parker, New York, 1947 https://ift.tt/2SS8cDH via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2ys90FS

Jim Morrison being photographed by Gloria Stavers, 1967 https://ift.tt/2YH8kLH via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2MxTJvz

A very Canadian scene as a smiling Royal Canadian Mounted Police recruit enjoying a Molson Canadian beer in Balgonie, Saskatchewan, July 1978. https://ift.tt/2YglBLt via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2Oyj6zK

The Murphy's Mart team at the then-new Jacksonville, Florida store. G.C. Murphy Co. photo, circa 1975. https://ift.tt/32WWSL7 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2KekaDt

Japanese girls marching in Warsaw during the 5th Word Festival of Youth and Students, 1955 (photo by Jan Kosidowski) https://ift.tt/32YBNjv via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2KbkeE8

Demonstrating how a camera works at Peoples Drug, circa 1979. https://ift.tt/335gi0b via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2Kek4f5

My Dad as a child during WW2 - he was evacuated from Coventry to go and live with complete strangers.. https://ift.tt/31c64JT via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/333L3CC

A letter from my Grandfathers Uncle to his mother in Lucan, Co. Dublin, from the front lines in France. Dated Monday 24.5.1916. Final few lines are talking about the Easter Rising in Dublin which occurred just a few weeks earlier. https://ift.tt/31c5Zpz via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2LRiGlU

A big Malaysian family (1970s) https://ift.tt/2Ovc7aL via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2OE8gsi

#vintage #German soldiers (One of which being my great grandpa) posing on a train, Eastern Europe, ~1941 [2159x1403] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2LOfJm4

#vintage #Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) camp in China in 1935, with permission of the Government of the Republic of China [799x571] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/315nJTg

#vintage #A Black Policeman Protecting KKK Member When Protestors Start Closing in on the Hate Group - Austin, Texas 1983 [600x445] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2LOfF5O

#vintage #Bockscar, a Silverplate B-29 Superfortress of the 509th Composite Group, dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. On the Nagasaki mission, it flew without nose art, and with a triangle N tail marking, rather than the circle arrowhead shown here. 1945. [1200 x 840] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2ylL4nB

#vintage #Allied Ships Unloading Supplies at Sfax, Tunisia For the Allied Forces in the Western Desert, Spring 1943. [2427 x 1772] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2ywbL8V

My Dad and his relatives playing football during the early winter in my home state of Ohio (January 1979) https://ift.tt/2Yd63YZ via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2STxxx6

My great-grandparents wedding in 1948 https://ift.tt/2OtZrRs via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2YGhTuk

Senior quotes from a 1911 high school yearbook. https://ift.tt/2K72pY8 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/333xmE0

I inherited a collection of books dated 1830-33. I don't know who this person is but its clear they loved these books a lot, all of them are signed and very thumbed through. https://ift.tt/2GDqnb0 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2GB52yY

New York City Newstand, Corner of 32nd & Third, 1935 https://ift.tt/2ZrFkVm via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2ZrFdJq

Fan Demand for Memorabilia of Their Favorite Players Gave Birth to the "Baseball Card." This Photo Was Taken in the 1870s; Back When it Took a Camera Around 15 Minutes to Capture an Image. I Bet This Dudes Back Hurt For Days After Holding That Pose For That Long. https://ift.tt/2K5LOUq via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2YuxrNv

Woman working on her subsistence homestead in California during the Great Depression (1936). https://ift.tt/2Yw2pEP via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2Kbc3aV

Woman grinding machined part at the. Curtiss-Wright Factory, Lambert Field in St Louis. (1943) https://ift.tt/2MsdIeQ via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2MpAAf3

U.S. Mail trucks - Parcel Post delivery. Washington, D.C., circa 1917. https://ift.tt/2ykM2jY via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2ylOerv

Soldiers dining at a Fred Harvey’s coffee shop at Union Station (St. Louis). 1943 https://ift.tt/2MowYKg via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2MpDLDn

Corvette assembly plant in St. Louis (1961) https://ift.tt/2yu7937 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2ymWs2r

My Great Grandad and his Brother on my Great Grandad's wedding day. https://ift.tt/2Kf9vZ8 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/32YT3oB

Princess Yvonne And Prince Alexander of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Germany, enjoy some mid-day activities in 1955 https://ift.tt/2Kf9x3c via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/32ZTBdR

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#vintage #Japanese cruiser Haguro under construction in Drydock No. 3 of the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan, 20 Oct 1928 [600 x 600] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2Gwprp5

#vintage #Gas chamber victims being burned outdoors at Auschwitz-Birkenau in when crematoria were overloaded, 1944 [1352x1773] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2ZlyYGP

#vintage #Rotating Solarium at Aix-les-Bains, France. Dr Jean Saidman designed and patented it to use ultraviolet light treatment for a variety of illnesses. The movable platform was 25 meters long and 6 meters wide and weighed 80 tons. Each room had a tilting bed to face the sun's rays. 1930 [1000 × 689] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2GEDaKC

#vintage #Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942. The native helpers were called "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" by the Australians. [505 x 600] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2ZjUuvF

#vintage #The Kaaba and the surrounding city of Mecca in 1887[1200x857] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2GED5qi

#vintage #Photographic portrait of nature photographer Ansel Adams — which first appeared in the 1950 Yosemite Field School yearbook. Photograph by J. Malcolm Greany, circa 1950. [3003 x 3799] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/32Zk1fH

Group of Victorian Era Fashionistas Late 1800s https://ift.tt/2Mo5yEh via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2ypL3yM

Thanksgiving - Mt.Vernon, Al (1976) https://ift.tt/2Gz7sOF via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2MmklPM

The original Penn Station NY https://ift.tt/2MrCFHw via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2yn9HAf

this historic sign in a hotel explains how to use electricity in case you've never used it before https://ift.tt/2Zj0IvO via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2yzmD6l

My great aunt with all of her brothers and parents on her wedding day. Circa 1952 in Dublin, Ireland. https://ift.tt/2yq9Oep via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2MrtQNC

Women carrying bundles of laundry and boxes on their heads. Highway outside Natchez, Mississippi. August 1940. https://ift.tt/2YzPzJG via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2SOEuzg

Teenage girl in Alexandria, Egypt smoking a hookah (1867) https://ift.tt/2ST8me2 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2YuIXMY