23 vintage pictures showing the everyday atmosphere of the past

1/24/2020

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History Story: 23 vintage pictures showing the everyday atmosphere of the past

Many years ago, when life was different and cameras were rare, taking pictures was a very special thing. These 23 amazing photographs will show you the precious moments people of the past once had.

#1 Comedian Violet Carlson and cat in the dressing room, Sydney, 1930s

#2 Frank Leighton almost goes in the "drink" on a launch picnic for performers, Sydney, 4 April 1937

#3 Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama Beach, ca. 1938, a photograph by Sam Hood

#4 Australian Olympians Eileen Wearne and Clare Dennis with Jacquie Lyn of the 'Our Gang' Show, Los Angeles, 1932

#5 Soldier's goodbye & Bobbie the cat, ca. 1939-ca. 1945

#6 Children's birthday party at the home of Mrs Lucy Jane Moran, Todman Ave, Kensington, Sydney, 1930s

#7 Young women enjoying a day at the beach at Southport, 1940

#8 Eileen Dunne, aged three, sits in bed with her doll at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, after being injured during an air raid on London in September 1940

History Story: #8 Eileen Dunne, aged three, sits in bed with her doll at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, after being injured during an air raid on London in September 1940 — wikimedia Public Domain Mark

#9 Orphans going to Coney Island, 1911

#10 San Antonio Aeroplane used for army messages, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

#11 Jack Bliss, a professional baseball player in Major League Baseball, 1912

#12 Hulda Lundager with her cat and her doll in Mt. Morgan

#13 Children in play clothes, between 1885 and 1910

#14 A troupe of performers known as The Huming Birds, Ireland, 1924

#15 The fisherman and a giant tree after the storm, Ireland, ca. 1897

#16 Christening Day, Sion Lodge, Ferrybank, Waterford, Ireland, ca. 1895

#17 A prisoner under escort at the South Western Front during the Irish Civil War, 22 July 1922

#18 Children under a sign designed to protect them on the Pigeon House Road, Ringsend, Dublin, 1969

#19 Baby elephant, a gift to Dublin Zoo from the governor of Madras, March 1936

#20 Mr. Power, a successful cider manufacturer, with his family, 16 November 1906

#21 Children in costumes, Ireland, 23 December 1930

#22 An Indian Prince, the date is unknown

#23 A Tibetan family in 1870

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Nicholas Miernicki

#8 The little girl injured in the bombing raid looks like she needs someone to hold and talk to her for a while. I'm the father of now grown girls and I know that look and what to do.

Vance Jenkins

I'd so much prefer to have lived during these times than those in which I'm in. Would have been so nice to have been born around the turn of last century - I'd be gone now and wouldn't have to witness all the ugliness happening today.