Historic Old Photos That You Won’t See Anywhere Else

Biting into a slice of ice cold watermelon is as refreshing today as it was a hundred years ago.

139 years ago today the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public.

1st Lt. William Dominick Matthews. He was a member of the Independent Battery, U.S. Colored Light Artillery, who served at Fort Leavenworth and helped protect eastern Kansas during Price's invasion in 1864

New York's skyline of the 1920s.

Civil War Veterans wore physical and emotional scars in this 1915 photograph.

“Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina.” By Dorothea Lange - July, 1939.

There is modern beauty in this photograph of Lota Cheek taken 99 years ago.

Formal portraits rarely featured smiles, but they can be found in photographs of daily life during this period. (1912, South Carolina.)

June the 6th, 1944. No words can describe what these men went through, and no words can thank them enough.

The early days of the selfie. (1900)

Betty White in her Los Angeles home with her dog, 1952.

In 1898 Frank Rinehart photographed dozens of participants of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska. Among them was this mother and child that Rinehart simply titled "Wichita".