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Traditional Mongolian man in 1913.
[History] Traditionnal Mongolian woman, Mongolia, 1913 (colorized)
Traditional Mongolian woman in 1913.
A market in Cairo, Egypt in 1923.
A shoe salesman in Cairo, Egypt in 1923.
A young Egyptian boy in 1922.
An Egyptian girl in 1922.
Egyptian guards in 1922.
An Egyptian man in 1922.
Japanese fish merchant in 1897.
Traditional Japanese woman in 1895.
Japanese Samurai in 1893.
Little Italy in New York City in 1905.
Busy New York City Street, US in 1905.
New York City, US docks in 1890.
Native American man in the 1890s.
Native Americna girl in the 1890s.
Denver, Colorado in the 1880s.
Civil War veteran telling kids stories in Philadelphia, US in 1935.
Russian family in 1894.
Indian soldiers meet a French boy in Marseilles, France in 1914.
Delivering blocks of ice in Chicago, US in 1918.
W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923.
Boxers after a fight in 1908.
A family in the South of the US in 1932.
Gas station in Washington D.C., US in 1924.
Car crash in Washington D.C., US in 1921.
The streets of Paris, France in 1908.
Woman selling flowers in Paris, France in 1909.
Famous Tattoo Artist George Burchett in East Sussex, England in 1930.
People in a village in Ireland in 1913.
Soldiers from the North during the US Civil War in 1864.
Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan from Russian in 1910.
Models pretending to box in 1938.
A street in Atlanta, US being guarded in 1864.
Streets of London, England in 1928.
Girl drops off mail in London, England in 1928.
Chinese tea farmer in Russian in 1915.
Russian peasant girls with picked berries in 1906.
Tea workers in Russian in 1907.
Armenian women in 1910.
Bakers selling bread in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia in 1912.
Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman daughter Christina in Dorset, England in 1913.
Family during the great depression in the US in 1936.
Senegalese troops as part of the French Army in France during WWI in 1916.
British troops feeding a horse during WWI in 1915.
PsBattle: These four men from the 34th Battalion in their gas masks (1915 France).
Australian troops with their gear in 1915.
Indian soldiers in their trench wearing gas masks during WWI in 1915.
German soldiers treating wounded dispatches carrying field dogs during WWI in 1915.
British soldiers reviewing a map in a trench in France during WWI in 1915.
French soldiers in Paris in 1914.
German soldiers in 1940.
Americans examine a destroyed German tank in Italy in 1944.
American soldiers embark for the Normandy landings in 1944.
German soldiers advancing in Russia in 1942.
German soldiers in a town in France in 1941.
American pilots in 1943.
Americans in a bombed out Italian town in 1944.
US Marines in the Pacific during WWII in 1943.
Russian soldiers in WWII in 1943.
Russian soldiers in WWII in Berlin, Germany in 1945.
Russians and Americans posing somewhere in Germany in 1945.
Japanese hospital in China in 1940.
Japanese preparing for an assault in China in 1940.
Tunisia in 1943.
Russian soldiers parade in Moscow in 1947.
lunatoro
A Mongolian woman here, I would not title the first picture as a "Traditional Mongolian man" he is a Mongolian monk tho.
ChocolateTeacosy
Traditional comment in Russian in 2017
Falanxzealot
Interesting that every piece of armour in that 1893 samurai group shot is kebiki odoshi. All of those pieces are pristine family heirlooms
RoeJollins
For most of the non American photos, that’s pretty much how I imagine most people in those countries still look to this day.
rivercity60
When I see pictures like this all that goes through my mind is; he’s dead. Her, she’s dead. Them, dead. Those guys, dead.
ThatGuyYouDespise
Great pictures, it bugs me that they're not in chronological order.
SirPyjak
if it's one thing we lost in time it was style, most of these people look better than most modern types
TheMeII
That Russian guy has to be stuffed by now.
RackhamTheRed
#30 no wonder they came up with the idea of leprachauns...
JonSnowNotedWindmillExpert
Some are actual colour photos, not colorised: http://twistedsifter.com/2015/04/rare-color-photos-of-the-russian-empire-from-100-years-ago/
DaFunOne
Pretty sure that's been worked on. I've seen the original in black n white.
redjayhawker
Puts added perspective on our past. I did not want that post to end- unbelievable.
richman888
Awesome
PileOfWalthers
That's not fucking Denver, Colo.
The mountains are close, but not THAT close.
PileOfWalthers
Also, in the 1880s, Denver looked like this
irlborat
That one German dude's shoulder must feel like ass. Rheinmetalls are back heavy as hell.
Huor
I think some of these are mis-captioned. For instance the girls with ice I've seen labeled as being in the UK during WWI (taking male jobs).
thesunemperor
The British soldiers feeding a horse are actually French-Canadians of the 22nd Battalion CEF! Thanks for the awesome collection!
MillennialsRuinEverything
Does that samurai have a triforce on his flag?
squirrelfartsy
Saw that too!
WayneNewton
Your Denver Colorado pic is inaccurate. That is Telluride, CO
pontiacgirl75
Is it just me or does that one Russian soldier on the last pic looking towards the camera look like a total hottie?
yamatto
TIL that russian women always looked like dudes, even before the steroids for olympic purposes.
bluelinevalhalla
In the samurai one. The guy on the far right is dead and propped up with a stand right?
Trimule
Civil war vet is probably 1925 not 1935 - doesn't look almost 100 years old -boys clothing and bus look 1920's
JoeTheGuy
Great pictures, but in 1912 Sarajevo was a part of Austria-Hungary
Shargan8
Today, half of Vienna is Sarajevo, so joke's on them!
QueenSavcy
In the Depression 1936 photo, if you look at the woman's skirt, it used to be a potato sack. I once read that when potato farmers 1/
kwagenknight
Close but that was flour not potato https://www.littlethings.com/flour-sack-dresses/
QueenSavcy
Yes, I mentioned my mistake in a reply up above. :)
QueenSavcy
learned that women were using the sacks to clothe their children and themselves, that the farmers started putting pretty designs on them.
sniperPhil
Wasn't that with the flour sacks and the mill owners doing that?
justanothercarmechanic
Yes, also on her dress it said "our" I'm guessing for flour. Plus the kids overalls are the same material
Salpinus
Do they still do that in the US? Pretty designs on potato sacks that is
mac821
Potatoes usually are packaged in plastic now
Salpinus
Heheh, yes. Thought maybe they were transported in sacks or sth before packed into smaller bags. Guess they use crates or sth now?
SuperVroni
i thought it was flour sacks and that was after WWI or WWII? Hm...need to google that^^
QueenSavcy
Oop, you and I are both half right. It was flour sacks but during the Depression. :)
Captainbetray
Nice pictures. But we all know there was no colour back then.
itsnotthatbad21
creaothceann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
AzgarOgly
You better know it was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky, among others.
BlueTyphoon
yeah just ask Mabel https://youtu.be/t-acOW_E04Q?t=44s
otiumCatulli
They also walked funny, like really jerky
Ilikeyogurt
The mom and her three kids during the depression makes me wonder if things got better for them, specially for mom. Her feet are swollen :(
spiderqueendemon
I cannot speak for that family specifically, but my grandma was about ten years old the year that picture was taken.
spiderqueendemon
For her family, and for many others, things did get a lot better. For others, it never did, but the standard of living still lifted them.
spiderqueendemon
Worst-case scenario, those kids are elderly, poor and live in a trailer park or an urban neo-tenement. Best-case scenario, with grandkids.
spiderqueendemon
If they did really well, they might live in an independent-living or assisted-living condo sort of place, where family visits often.
spiderqueendemon
People forget that success is half hard work and half luck.
RabbiKirschbaum
Each and everyone in these pictures is dead.
shutthefrontdoor
How do we know you're not dead?
pigleythree
there are kids in some of the later photos, they could easily be alive now
TheMeII
Not neccessary. WW2 vets are rare but not unheard of.
nombre11
Great to see black owned businesses in the south
comehomefransbrauder
Just spit my coffee out. Thanks,.
HallelujahBarron
What is negro sales?
IdislikeuPeople
HieronymousFlex
Slaves.
paleface
What you are seeing in this photo is a place where human beings were auctioned off and sold like they were cattle.
Salpinus
Serious note though. It's amazing and sickening how short a time it is since people were sold as cattle in the US.
Salpinus
Of course this still happens in the world (but illegal if nothing else) and cheap labour in 3rd world countries ain't much better. Still tho
Abysse
You make it sound like it was only in the U.S.
Salpinus
Not my intention :) it was only due to the picture. Perhaps should've phrased myself better to clarify.
ArcherPointingFromTheComments
That is 100% not Denver
Traja01
Came down here to say that.
ArcherPointingFromTheComments
Yup
yawningdementedclown
Eureka, CO ?
WayneNewton
Telluride
NextStopAfterNeptune
Yeah, 100% instantly called bullshit on that one
WayneNewton
That is Telluride.
WayneNewton
You can look at pic of modern Main Street Telluride and tell that it is the same
shutthefrontdoor
Prove it
PileOfWalthers
In the 1880s, Denver looked like this
And the mountains aren't THAT close.
themooseof603
mountains are all wrong for Denver
CynicalBacon
Maybe Vale?
shutthefrontdoor
Maybe you've never been to that part of town.
ColoradoGirrl
You do know that Colorado isn’t all mountains right? Denver is in the Great Plains.
themooseof603
I mean it's a large city but mountains rarely sneak up on you
CynicalBacon
Yeah. Denver isn't in between the mountains, it's to the east of them. I believe it's the Rockies but I'm not sure what town.
PileOfWalthers
Sauce pic http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/eureka.html
PileOfWalthers
Elsewhere, it's captioned Eureka, Colorado.
Yprox5
Prove it
CynicalBacon
If you give me a few hours when it's daylight I can take another crappy picture of the distant mountains
CynicalBacon
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