A photograph is a captured moment of the past that we can relive over and over again. Through a photo, we learn the history not only of our family, but also of an entire country or people. Photographs store not only faces, but also emotions, smells, voices, and places that we may never visit again. Photo albums themselves are a vault of memories that help us understand who we are and what our ancestors were like.
“My grandmother on her wedding day, 1970s”
“My grandma competing in Miss Arkansas sometime around the 1940s/1950s. She got second place.”
“My great-grandfather used to workout with Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
“This is my grandma Dorothy. She was a dress designer in the 50s which always made this photo more funny to me.”
“My grandmother did magazine modeling in the 1940s. Here’s one of the old photos I’ve found.”
“My great-grandfather circa 1920s”
“The picture was taken sometime in the 1960s when my grandmother was a majorette.”
“Portrait of my great-grandmother in 1929”
“My grandfather taking a selfie, 1965”
“My favorite picture of my grandmother from the early 1970s”
“My great-grandmother at age 17, circa 1928. All women loved to dance and perform at parties at that time”
“My great-grandfather in the 1930s”
“A photograph of my grandmother as a teen, late 1890s”
“My 18-year-old great-grandmother in 1907”
“Korean fashion back in the day. This is an old photo of my great-grandfather and one of his sons in Korea!”
“My grandmother in the 1920s. She reminds me of old Hollywood in this photo.”
“A picture of my grandfather at 17”
“My great-grandmother poses for her engagement portrait — photographed by Louis Fabian Bachrach in Baltimore, 1926”
“My fourth great-grandmother possibly in the mid to late 1860s”
“A photo of my grandfather in the 1960s”
“A black and white passport photo of my grandmother taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s”
“My grandmother’s nursing school graduation photo from the 1940’s.”
And these photos show how people of different professions have changed in the past 30 years.