25 Vintage Photos That Will Help You Appreciate Today

Take a trip down memory lane with these 25 captivating photos from the past, giving us a fresh perspective on the world we live in today, and helping us appreciate the progress we’ve made.

1. The California Limited

  • Santa Fe Rail Road, 1905.

2. The Three Chiefs – Piegan

By Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

3. Tennessee is Ratified as the 36th State

Alice Paul, national chairman of the Woman’s Party, unfurled the ratification banner from suffrage headquarters, Washington, DC. 1920.

4. The Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco, 1937.

5. Farmer

Crossing the street in Eufaula, Oklahoma. 1940.

6. A Sick Man in the Laennec Barracks

A temporary tuberculosis hospital in Paris, late 1910s.

7. An Unfinished Steel Structure

Still standing after an earthquake, San Francisco, 1906.

8. Canal Street T

he main thoroughfare of New Orleans, 1901.

9. Walking Towards LA

Two men on the move, 1937.

10. Para-Fireman

On his way to fight forest fires in 1943.

11. High School Locker Room

Football team after a loss. 1950.

12. Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb

A train in 1900.

13. Trestle Work

Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley. 1869.

14. Subway

On an elevated track, 1915.

15. Men on a Railroad Handcar

Weber Cañon, Utah, 1869.

16. A Roller Skater

Nifty gadgets in 1910.

17. The Main Street of Honolulu

Hawaii in 1902.

18. Food, Beer, and Drugs

Cascade, Idaho, 1939.

19. Women Subway Guards and a Conductor

Looking at a railway car on a Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company line. 1917.

20. A Train Plows Through High Water

Illinois, 1907.

21. The Chrysler Building

Standing tall in 1930.

22. Chinatown in San Francisco

California in 1920.

23. Truck Driver

In a diner, Clinton, Indiana, 1940.

24. Wife of Resettled Farmer

Roanoke Farms, North Carolina, 1938.

25. Buried Farm Machinery

Dust storm aftermath in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936.

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