r/TheWayWeWere • • 10h ago

1960s Voter Registration, My grandfather, 1963

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Jerome Smith Looks at Bullet Holes in Fannie Lou Hamer’s Door, 1963


r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

1950s Halloween party, 31 of October 1955.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

1950s Portraits of 1950s Hungary

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

1970s Young couple posing for a photo together, NJ, 1970.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 20h ago

1960s Pure late-1960s motherhood: laundry on the line, stroller on the grass, and kids looking cute

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 53m ago

1950s Sharing my Christmas list with Santa, 1958

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 39m ago

1960s Trick or treating 1960s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 18h ago

Pre-1920s Joyful Victorian era family, 1890s but location unknown

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 15h ago

1920s Great grandfather's PRR ID badge, Altoona, PA rail shops, 1920s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 14h ago

1970s October 27, 1971: Ann Landers column - Minneapolis Tribune

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 14h ago

1970s Power couple 1970s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1970s Grandma with the only new car they ever bought (Ft. Lauderdale, 1979)

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1543 SE 13th St., Ft. Lauderdale used to be a laid back little neighborhood with modest ranch houses, kumquat and grapefruit trees that backed up to the canals. It's no longer recognizable.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1h ago

My work I. D. In 1983 Washington, DC. Where I was making $13,000 a year. During the 98th Congress. Members of Congress were paid $75,000 per year.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 23h ago

1970s Me standing next to my mom's 1971 Nova. 1973.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pre-1920s My great grandmother Irene, 1919, age 16

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My great grandmother Irene in 1919, age 16. She captioned this "With love, Irene."


r/TheWayWeWere • • 20h ago

1940s My maternal grandparents 1948

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s my great grandma posing with the car / chicago c. 1951

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1940s My father and his best friend enjoying the outdoors - 1946

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1970s My dad second lining in New Orleans, early 1970s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 19h ago

67 World's Fair in Montreal

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 21h ago

The laughing boy with the fun loving parents

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

The World of 70s Hungary

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 22h ago

New to you again

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 23h ago

Pre-1920s Eerie 1848 photo of Organ Grinder surrounded by “Ghost” children . Full-length daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified young organ grinder on a cobble-stone street as several children pass by, late 1840s. (Photo by Cromer’s Amateur/George Eastman Museum/Getty Images)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pre-1920s More Sleeping Situations From Jacob Riis’s ‘How The Other Half Lives’ 1887-1889

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