These interesting vintage photos captured everyday life in the U.S. from between the 1900s and 1940s:
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Women and their proposing beaus |
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Children playing with puppets |
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Girls basketball 1931 style |
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Couple with big feet arcade photo |
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Hawaiian Hula beauties |
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Turn of century girls in a play |
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A graceful gal of the 1920s |
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Man photographs a swan on the banks of a pond |
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Dog poses with his owner on steps |
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A very common pose back in the day |
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Women smoking cigars |
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Young women hold fancy china ready for their tea party |
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Children on their sled |
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Geraldine Reed in 1933 |
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Women putting their heads together at the beach |
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Young men boxing by the railroad tracks |
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Girls in a play…at the turn of the century |
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A costumed and poised girl poses in a cap circa 1910 |
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A boy and girl climb the Eiffel tower in this arcade photo |
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The basketball season of 1924 and 1925 was a tough one…as seen by these gals |
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Theater postcard of the 1920s |
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A young women checks her make up |
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Women in theater costumes |
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Two women walk with backs to the camera |
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1920s Flapper’s with a basketball |
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Hey…that stinks! |
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Sign of the times |
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A young woman poses with the Queen Elizabeth ship |
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Teens and a car …before and after |
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Girl with a cow on the farm |
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A boy poses with a McCaw |
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California …here I come |
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Funny group on carousel |
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Great lines angles and especially curves this girl has it all wrapped in sweetness |
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Young girls have fun at construction site |
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Teenage girls frolic near the water in 1910s |
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Homely girl wades in the ocean |
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Vintage antique store and woman’s billowing dress |
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Japanese push cart vendor. This fellow needs to take a rest, now and then…and he can still make money standing still as well….5 yen just to sit in his cart for a photo. |
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Circus acrobatic girl does a split |
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Take a pet to the hospital …and cheer somebody up |
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Photo cut outs |
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Girls with music sheets |
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Not going anywhere … too soon |
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Fun vintage images bought at the 28th annual DC photo show. They posed this pose a lot back then |
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Young woman poses with her airplane in the 1940s |
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High school cheerleaders practicing |
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Fishing contest at the Jefferson Memorial in late 1930s |
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Pageant 1920s flapper style |
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Pageant 1920s flapper style |
(Photos via John Mathew Smith)