20th century life

Collection of photos and documents depicting day-to-day life in the 20th century, including family photos that I am in the process of digitizing. Photos are tagged by decade and location, if known.

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Two German women sitting on a park bench surrounded by destroyed buildings, Cologne, Germany, 1945.

@Lee Miller

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Mike

Liepāja, Latvia

ca. late 1920s-early 1930s

[joeinct]

Off-Duty US Navy Sailors, Sanno Hotel, Tokyo, Photo by Greg Girard, 1979

[heavenlycreatures]

Romania, 1997 (photo taken by my mother)

[undr]

John Bulmer. Woman and a cat walk through a cemetery in Wakefield West Yorkshire. 1964

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Riga, Latvia

September 1937

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Gerda, George, and Nina

1930s

[natgeofound]

A regular at Le Louis IX in Paris, “Caramel” keeps a client company, May 1988. Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic

[scavengedluxury]

Children at a civil defense drill. Photo by Oleg Nikishin, Kineshma, Russia, 1999.

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Angelica, Eva, and Ferdinand

1953

[meschkinnes]

Woman in forest, ca. 1915

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

“Hazel Newcomb holding Jimmy“

circa 1910s

[sovietpostcards]

Flower sellers at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia (1964) (via)

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Sylvia and Bill

New York, USA

1955

[meschkinnes]

On the way home from school, Drouin, Victoria, 1944

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Richie and Rita

Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Summer 1949

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Gerda and Gerhard

Liepāja, Latvia

Mid 1930s