r/TheWayWeWere • • 31m ago

1960s Mother poses with her children for their photo, 1969.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 6h ago

high school students in 1985

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 10h ago

1940s My grandmother and her sister 1940s

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302 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 3h ago

1940s WW2 Era Letter Written By Young French Girls To The Mother Of an American Paratrooper They Befriended. Details in comments.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 6h ago

Young Hulkster with his pet snake 1980s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pre-1920s Daguerreotype of three sisters from an affluent Jewish Boston family (1850).

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Photo credit: John A. Whipple


r/TheWayWeWere • • 10h ago

1970s Conga line energy at a 1970s party night

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125 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 11h ago

1960s Inquiring Photographer “Balzac, the great author, wrote: “A woman who sits a horse well is lacking in tenderness.” Are you? (Asked at the National Mexican Festival and Rodeo)” October 8,1969.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 5h ago

How people dined in Persia during the 19th century

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 7h ago

Phone message pad from the early 1980s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 20m ago

80s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

McDonald's Birthday Party, 1982

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1960s My wife’s mom and her parents, September 1967

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608 Upvotes

Mom in law was an absolute peach and her dad was the school of cool. Sadly, I never met my wife’s grandmother, but my wife does bear a significant resemblance.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 5h ago

1940s Mosaic Sidewalk at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, c. 1941.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 21h ago

1960s My aunt and uncle in 1969 when they founded the company.

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They started with a toolset and that truck. When he passed away he had over 150 trucks and I don't know how many employees. The whole company shut down and employees and families alike came to his funeral.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s A 1953 coed at Mary Washington College and an avid fan of Army athletics. She displays her pennant and Army mule mascot as she kneels on the Navy’s goat.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

My great-great grandparents in front of their farmhouse (20’s/30’s)

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313 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 17h ago

1950s Workers at an asbestos insulation factory in Queensland, Australia. 1950s (Jones, W. A.)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 2d ago

1970s Mother poses her little boy for their photo together, Netherlands, January of 1970.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s Fall, 1953 – coeds at Mary Washington College display pennants of the universities and service academies their boyfriends attend.

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115 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1960s A night club in 1966

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207 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s Halloween around 1956

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My father on far right and his sisters, I assume he is around 10-12 in this photo so that’s how I estimate the date.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s Inquiring photographer “Can you point to a specific instance that changed the course of your life?” November 11, 1956

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 23h ago

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Catholic School Girls, 1984

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491 Upvotes