"Contrabands", aka escaped slaves, moving their possessions through the Rappahannock River via oxcart. Virginia, USA, 1862. https://ift.tt/2vAZqlH via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/38VfxJi
#vintage #Statue of David by Michelangelo, encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs, during world war 2 (455×674) #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2RPse2N
Party at Andy Warhol's Silver Factory at 231 E 47th Street in NYC (8-31-1965). Photo by Fred McDarrah. https://ift.tt/36JBxVZ via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/3b0DXDd
Sabrett Hot Dog Vendor. Upper West Side, NYC (Circa early 1950s) Louis Stettner, photographer. https://ift.tt/31e01Ww via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2GIzFlL
#vintage #1902 White House reconstruction discovery of an icehouse originally constructed under Thomas Jefferson. [1040 x 769] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/36FzDpz
#vintage #The entrance to the Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland. Recent discovered in an album of a deputy commandant of the camp contained 49 pics of the camp. The commandant was axed in the head during the camp uprising, 1942-1943 [760 x 1013] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2vG7xhb
#vintage #U.S. Army Delta Force special operations soldiers ride on AH-9 "Little Bird" helicopters over Mogadishu, Somalia during Operation Gothic Serpent (c. 1993) [874 x 574] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2OdQn0L
My Gran and Grandad on their 3rd or 4th date in 1931 (she was 20 and he was 25). Taken outside the Carrbridge Hotel, Carrbridge, Scotland. They were married within a year and had their reception in that hotel, my niece had her wedding in the same hotel last year. https://ift.tt/3b0cHVp via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2GCeG4h
My Mum and Dad on the right in 1976 on the run up to a Scotland vs England football match. He would have been 29 and she was 27. They didn’t have a happy marriage so having this photo with both of them smiling is rare. https://ift.tt/2RM6rJk via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2Ue7za0
My Grandmother, Auntie and Uncle at Muir-of-Ord, Scotland late 60s/Early 70s. My uncle was a master butcher who worked till the day he died late last year at the age of 78. https://ift.tt/3b0RnPg via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2RGYYek
Ok - here is the previous year. Our Troupe were 'little Bo Peeps' 1967. Here is us tap dancing on massed pallets after the street parade. Grange Over Sands maybe. I am the one just left of centre. https://ift.tt/36MwtQB via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2vCHg3c
Judge Roy Bean, Justice of the Peace, the Law west of the Pecos, the "Jersey Lilly" - and vendor of ice cold beer to thirsty vaqueros. Langtry, Texas, 1904. https://ift.tt/36JV7l3 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2RLvbS1
My tap dancing class got dragged round all the local summer parades 1968. About one per week for 6 weeks. We had to tramp through the streets with the floats, periodically stop and dance, ending up at a field somewhere. I am the gormless one staring right at the camera. https://ift.tt/2GG8aJL via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2uM71O8
Entrance to Tropical Park in Miami, Florida (1962) Courtesy of the Miami Herald Archives. https://ift.tt/2tTdPcL via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2U8mYsv
#vintage #Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Countess Sophie Chotek, about to set off on their visit to Saravejo on the 28th June, 1914. They would be assassinated later that day, an event which many believe ‘sparked the fuse’ that started WW1. [800x450] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/36DaaNl
#vintage #U.S. Marines in close combat, Mutter's Ridge, near the DMZ north of Dong Ha, Vietnam, 1968 [1280 x 865] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3aTDUJd
#vintage #Charlie Chaplin during the shooting of his first directed full-length film "The Kid" with Jackie Coogan, one of the first child actors in film history. United States, 1921 [680 x 900] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2RXvV5c
#vintage #A US soldier in the Leipzig Monument commemorating the 1813 Battle against Napoleon, in April 1945 [768x503] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2S2r1nC
#vintage #United States Coast Guardsman, Fireman 1st Class, Charles Tyner examines the jagged shrapnel hole in the helmet he wore during Operation Dragoon; the Allied landings in Southern France, 1944. [1100x1400] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2GD8nxo
#vintage #"Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the patriotic ambition to help." (16 Sept. 1918) [3000x2226] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2RCtDJU
These are my great-great-great-grandparents, my great-great-grandparents and my great-grandaunt and -uncle in their best clothes in front of the house i grew up in. Rural Swizerland, ca. 1912 https://ift.tt/3aU7C0y via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/316aVgI
Photo I’ve been restoring of my grandmother (middle) and her friends tea party sometime in the mid to late 30’s. https://ift.tt/2u4GECO via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2t7V5FN
The American Red Cross workers collecting victims of the flu in St. Louis, MO [1918 ] https://ift.tt/37zOeE6 via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2vzNO2z
My 1st Cousin, 3x removed Estelle Poirier, 15 years old. Doffer at Granite No. 1 mill in Fall River, MA. Laceration of index and middle finger of right hand. Caught in card machine. Injured Dec. 21, 1915 and finger grew stiff and had to have cord cut. https://ift.tt/2S3YNsJ via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/313Qlxw
"Killed" photograph of a California produce worker during the Great Depression, clearly not letting circumstances affect his smile. (1930s) https://ift.tt/37BO3IA via /r/TheWayWeWere https://ift.tt/2GLICep