Days Gone By

Jul 7 2012
11:17 am

Charles J. Martin, his wife Esther L. Martin and their son James U. Martin, 1920s.

Posted 11 months ago
#1920s #charles martin #vintage #portrait #history #family

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Jul 5 2012
9:55 pm

Portrait of a family in Los Angeles, California, 1930.

Source: German Federal Archive

Posted 11 months ago
#1930s #LA #california #children #family #john and kate plus 8 #los angeles #overpopulation #portrait #southern california #vintage #great depression #USA

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Jul 5 2012
6:12 am

F.M. Sargent, Chief Joseph, leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce with his family, circa 1880.

Source: Washington State Archives

Posted 11 months ago
#1880s #19th century #vintage #portrait #history #family #family portrait #children #native american #american indian #native people #f.m. sargent #USA #nez perce #wallowa

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Jul 4 2012
4:04 pm

Dorothea Lange,On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on the relief because he once lived there, February 1939.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1930s #california #children #dorothea lange #family #great depression #history #imperial county #migrant worker #poverty #vintage #san diego

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Jul 4 2012
6:08 am

American author Thornton Wilder as a child at the Wilder family cottage at Maple Bluff, Wisconsin, 1900.

Source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #thornton wilder #children #family #wisconsin #vintage #history

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Jul 3 2012
10:44 am

Rudolf Bruner-Dvorak, Woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina wearing a niqab, ca. 1906.

Source: Scheufler Collection

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #vintage #portrait #history #rudolf bruner-dvorak #children #family #niqab #bosnia-herzegovina #bosnia #muslim #islam #religion

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Jul 2 2012
10:15 pm

Detroit Publishing Co., A Sami indigenous northern European family, ca. 1896.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #vintage #portrait #history #sami #saami #native people #family #tipi #children

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Jul 2 2012
1:54 pm

Archduke Leopold Salvador of Austria with his wife Infanta Blanca of Spain and their ten children, Vienna, Austria, 1915.

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #vienna #austria #leopold of austria #blanca of spain #spain #viennese royal family #royalty #family #children #vintage #portrait #history

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Jul 1 2012
6:34 pm

Walther Dobbertin, An Indian trader and his family in Bagamoyo, German East Africa, 1906-1918.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #1910s #vintage #history #bagamoyo #german east africa #tanzania #east africa #africa #walther dobbertin #indians #indian #family

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Jun 30 2012
12:21 pm

Otto Hees, Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, and family, 1889.

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #brazil #latin america #south america #latin american history #otto hees #emperor dom pedro II #brazilian royal family #royalty #children #family #family portrait

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