Days Gone By

May 26 2012
7:15 pm

Actress Mildred Davis with her pet dog, 12 August 1921.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 12 hours ago
#1920s #mildred davis #actress #pets #dogs #cute #vintage #portrait #pekingese #hats

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May 26 2012
10:45 am

New York City school children on the first day of school, 1915.

Source: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection

Posted 21 hours ago
#1910s #new york #new york city #NYC #USA #children #friends #cute #bows #vintage #history #school

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May 25 2012
12:48 am

Fred and Adele Astaire, ca. 1906.

Posted 2 days ago
#1900s #fred astaire #adele astaire #vintage #portrait #children #cute #actor

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May 23 2012
11:14 pm

Jacob Riis, Sister Irene and children at New York Foundling orphanage, New York City, 1888.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 3 days ago
#1880s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #new york foundling #orphanage #orphans #children #cute #sad #poverty #sister irene #nun #new york #new york city #NYC #USA #jacob riis

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May 22 2012
8:07 pm

Portrait of a Father and Smiling Child, USA, ca. 1855.

Source: Getty Museum

Posted 4 days ago
#1850s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #father #fatherhood #children #family portrait #baby #smiling victorian #USA #babies #cute

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May 14 2012
7:24 pm

Nurse and Child, USA, ca. 1850.

Source: Getty Museum

Posted 1 week ago
#1850s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #USA #nurse #children #african-american #cute #babies #baby #daguerreotype

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May 14 2012
5:08 pm

Dr. Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend, Artist’s Wife and Their Three Children, Germany, June 1851.

Source: Getty Museum

Posted 1 week ago
#1850s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #germany #family #children #sleeping #cute #happy #smile #motherhood #mother #hermann biewend

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May 14 2012
12:35 pm