History in Photos The rural kids in the 50's rode bikes to school. You took whatever path was best for you. This lad looks like he is carrying some freshly picked green peanuts for a snack when he gets home.  Camping out in 1918.  This was the 30's, and this sharecropper's son was working behind the plow, barefoot and all. You can bet there was a mule on the front of that plow.  Early Version of American Gothic Photo posted by: Dianne Bowders My grandparents pose in an early version of American Gothic, with a groundhog killed on their Manchester Twp. farm. Note: Photo taken circa 1914, from our family photo album.:  A.G. Wallihan, photographer. Augusta Wallihan Grocery Shopping. Albumen print, circa 1895. Standing over one of her many trophy mule deer, subsistence-and-sport huntress Gusty Wallihan appears every inch the frontier matron with her dres sy bonnet, prairie-pattern cartridge belt, floral-embroidered gauntlets, hunting knife, and Remington-Hepburn rifle.:  At least this one won't be quite as dangerous as the old single wheeled models. Check out the baby riding behind them look in the trailer over the back wheel. They have their baby in there!  Changing street lamps 1910's style. This was the approved way to change the street lamps in 1910. Cool!  Old Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking center. Awesome.: A single Paddy Wagon. Never knew they had such a vehicle! This is way cool.  Mobile Home - Photographic Print - 1926: Here is an early motorhome, built in 1926. I think this is so very cool looking! I'm surprised the light chassis would handle it.  Dupont Car Camp Recreational Vehicle, 1910s: We've all been aware of the traditional tent wagon. This is a tent vehicle built in 1910.  Vintage treadmills, 1920: These are vintage treadmills in the 1920's.  1920's Refrigerator: This is a 1920's refrigerator. Only the elite could afford such a thing, and most still had the old ice boxes.  First hair dryer - about 1920, holy moly: A hair dryer in the 1920 Salon. What a contraption!  Chester E. Macduffee next to his newly patented, 250 kilo diving suit, 1911  Circus: A postcard from the 1800's advertising a knife throwing act with the traveling circus. How would you like that job?  A strongwoman balances a piano and pianist on her chest. (1920): That's some chest that can do that!  London, in the 1920's, this was a telephone engineer. What a job!  Two young girls in a West Germans street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the Eastern sector, separated only by a barbed wire barricade. It was a common occurrence for families, who had once only lived on the opposite side of the street from one another, to become separated by the ever growing Berlin Wall.:  A Gibson Girl in her corset in the early 1900's. Those poor women. This was one fad that really hurt a lot of women for life.  Lillian Russell. A plus size beauty in the late 1800s. She was around 200 lb at the peak of her career. She was considered "The American Beauty." Weighwatchers would want to enroll her today! The End of History in Photos |