Photography has come a long way since its invention, and for many people, it offers a great way to save and record memories and special moments in their lives.
But we can also use photography as a way to explore our history and the history of the world (post-camera invention, of course) and learn or discover new things.
Take a trip through the epochs of history with these fascinating photos of people and places from our collective past.
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Teenagers listening to records 1957
2
Somewhere in Los Angeles c1959
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1915 Creighton University football team
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A girl and her cat, San Antonio, TX, 1939
5
Visiting Disneyland, 1968
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Elite Egyptian women at french tailor shop in Cairo, 1890s
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Boeing 747 and an International Gathering of Stewardesses, 1970s
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East Kentucky Appalachian girl, 1964
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Los Angeles International Airport. 1970’s.
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A sailor from the USS Oriskany proudly showing off his tattoos, 1950s
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Children’s Playground in New York City, early 20th century
12
Katherine Johnson, “human computer”, famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962
13
Three generations having a picnic c1953
14
A former chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family, seventeen children and five elders, live on Hitchen’s farm, Seaford, Delaware, 1910.
15
Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969)
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A group of children posing in their classroom, 1900s.
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A Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardess in go-go boots, 1970′s.
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A girl and her cat, San Antonio, TX, 1939
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Children on a mule pulling a plow, Ozark Mountains, 1930’s
21
Just Married, New Hampshire, 1958
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Passengers aboard a Boeing 307 aircraft operated by Pan American World Airways, 1940s.
23
Diner in Alpine, Tex. 1939
