Article created by: Jonas Zvilius

Life before the digital age has become a distant memory for many who lived it. Thankfully, we have photographs to remind us about those simpler times.

Today, we’re not just doing any other throwback. We’re winding back the clock to the 1890s to give us a glimpse of how massively different things were. These antique snapshots are from a Facebook group aptly named “Photographic Traces from 1890 until 1950.”

If the group name isn’t enough of a giveaway, expect to see historic pictures of a tattoo parlor in the 1930s, a dance class in the 1900s, and a rare image of the ever-stunning Marilyn Monroe in a potato sack dress from the early ‘50s.

Enjoy scrolling, as these vintage photos may also enthrall you.

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#1 Angela Lansbury (‘princess Gwendolyn’ And Her Hamburger….) Eating With Basil Rathbone (‘sir Ravenhurst’)

#2 1942 – Navajo Mother, Rose, And Her Son Ben Chee Henry, Canyon De Chelly, Arizona

#3 A Young Berber Girl With Her Traditional Regalia, From The Ouled Nail Tribe, Algeria, North Africa. Photography By Lehnert-Landrock, 1905

#4 On Easter Morning In 1941, A Group Of African American Boys Dressed In Their Finest Clothes Gathered On The South Side Of Chicago, Posing Atop A Parked Car

#5 Portrait Of A Oilof Family (‘oilof’ Is An Old Spelling For Wolof), Captured By French Photographer Emile Noal (1868-1903) Between 1890-1900 In St-Louis, Senegal (West Africa)

#6 Martin Imboden. The Dancer Manon Chaufour 1930

#7 1890s – Tibetan Lady Ani Chokyi By Photographer Thomas Parr, Darjeeling, India (Albumen Print)

#8 Unknown Photographer. School Teacher At Her Desk 1899. Cyanotype

#9 “The Forbidden City.” San Francisco’s Chinatown’s World Famous Nightclub, Mai Tai Sing And Her Chorus-Line Dancers In A Publicity Shot For “Holiday Magazine” In 1948

#10 La Mariée De Notre-Dame, 1949

#11 Arnold Genthe- Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1914)

#12 A View Of The Acropolis Of Athens, Greece In 1860

#13 Harriet Hoctor (1905-1977) ♥️ American Ballerina, Choreographer, Actress And Dance Instructor In A Back Bending Pose As A Question Mark For A 1925 Photograph By Bloom Studio Of Chicago

#14 1933, Paris – Dutch-Javanese Model Catharina ‘Toto’ Koopman

#15 Dorothea Lange – Young Family Hitchhiking On U.S. Highway 99 In California

#16 Korean War Kiss-Goodbye, Los Angeles, September 06, 1950

#17 Lewis W. Hine – Albanian Woman, Ellis Island (1905)

#18 Actress – Model Helen Bennett In A “Spider” Dress, 1939

#19 Bassano Ltd. The Model Andrea Mijinska 1930

#20 Albert Einstein Joue Avec Son Violon Adoré, 1941

#21 Robert Doisneau. The Lovers, Opera, Paris 1950

#22 Alfred Stieglitz. The Cards’s Players 1894

#23 Actress Myrna Loy In “The Mask Of Fu Manchu.” 1932

#24 Adolf Miethe. Woman By The Sea 1903. Autochrome

#25 Mrs Marlene Dietrich, Photography By Wolff Von Gudenberg In Berlin, 1929

#26 Lee Miller. Self-Portrait, 1932

#27 Edmund Kesting. Portrait With Shadow 1930

#28 Amy Peterson’s Portrait Of A Champagne Inspector, Wearing A Special Mask To Protect Against Accidental Discharges

#29 Bassano Ltd. Gabrielle Ray 1910

#30 Isidora Duncan’s Dance Students, Early 1900s

#31 Cette Italienne Inspecte Curieusement Le Kilt D’un Soldat Écossais. Colisée, Rome En 1944

#32 Jacob Merkelbach. Portrait Of A Woman In Red Dress 1920s

#33 Chorus Girl, 1933 By James Jarché

#34 Jacob Merkelbach. The Dancer Angele Sydow 1917-1919

#35 Claude Cahun. Autoportrait 1929

#36 Subway Entrance, New York By Homer Page 1949

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