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)
