80 Historical Photos That You Probably Haven’t Seen Before

The art of photography has been around for over a century now, but the average image you’ll encounter in your day-to-day life is probably taken on a smartphone within the last year or two. So it can be interesting to explore the world before phones and even the internet and see the past through the actual lenses used at the time.

The “Vintage Photo Booth” Facebook page gathers interesting and historical images from before 1990. So get comfortable for your trip to the past, upvote your favorite pictures, and comment your thoughts and experiences below.

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#1 A Beautiful Family Picture

#2 Two Girls Gallop Full Speed On Sheep In Cornwall, England 1969

#3 They Are The Carter Family Of Toronto, Ontario In 1936. Louise And John William Carter, Immigrants From Barbados, Went On To Have 9 Children Over A 10 Year Period

#4 Aboriginal Boy With Kangaroo Pet, Australia National Geographic | October 1955

#5 Dancing In The South Bronx, New York, 1979

#6 A Cat Named Buffins, Photographed After Winning The Award For “Most Attractive Expression” At A National Cat Club Contest, In Washington, 1958

#7 Sigourney Weaver’s High School Yearbook Photo And Quote In 1967. “Please, God, Please, Don’t Let Me Be Normal.”

#8 Marlon Brando, A Cat Lover, Once Declared, “I Live In My Cat’s House”

#9 The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm, The Pioneering All-Girl Jazz-Swing Group, With Bandleader Anna Mae Winburn, 1940s

#10 “Invisible Dad, Result Of War” By Evaldas Ivanauskas 1926

#11 London Children And Dog….. Approx 1955

#12 12-Year-Old Freddie Mercury At St Peter’s Boys School – Panchgani, India, 1958

#13 Battersea Fun Fair, London, England C.1952

#14 Ms Nora Washington With Catfish She Caught—-With A Cane Pole, No Less—-In The Colorado River, Bastrop, Texas 1950’s

#15 NY Public Library Bookmobile – Bronx, 1950

#16 Audrey Hepburn Photographed By Art Zelin On The Streets Of New York, 1990

#17 La Policemen Disguise Themselves As Women To Catch A Purse-Snatcher In The 1960s

#18 1940s…..i Would Love To Know What’s Going On…..her Joy Is Infectiou

#19 Bowmont Drive Entrance Of Frank Sinatra’s Home In The 1960s

#20 Playing Cards In The Back Of A Car. (1950s)

#21 The Old Cincinnati Library, Before It Was Demolished In 1955

#22 Polka Dotted Beach Pajamas, Deauville – 1930’s

#23 A Covey Of Young Nerds Compete For The *national ‘Space Invaders’ Championship, *hosted By Atari – NYC, 1980

#24 Ida Lupino – Great Dress Of The Times

#25 Elvis And His Mother Gladys

#26 Ladies At The Gateways Club In Chelsea, London

#27 Girl Learning Photography And Cinema In Bali, 1934

#28 Delivering Newspapers In Mexico City, 1977, By Frans Stoppelman

#29 Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Journalist Murray Kempton. He Never Learned To Drive

#30 Fred With Tires From The Body Shop Series, 1984 By Herb Ritts

#31 Bunny Yeager · Self-Portrait

#32 Coal Miner’s Wife And Three Of Their Children. Company House In Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938

#33 June 1938. “Butter Bean Vines Across The Porch. Negro Quarter In Memphis, Tennessee.”

#34 Mia Farrow C. 1964

#35 The Original Ronald Mcdonald Photographed Here In The 1970s. You’re Welcome. Sweet Dreams

#36 Newly Completed World Trade Centre 1973

#37 A Couple Of Students Hang Out In Their College Dorm Room At The University Of Illinois In 1910

#38 The Zoot Suit, Ca. 1940s

#39 The Maryhill Olympics, Glasgow 1980

#40 Found This On Another Site …atlantic City 1939

#41 Photo By Louise Dahl-Wolf, 1939

#42 Marilyn Monroe Attends The Premiere Of The Film “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, 1955

#43 Kristen M. Shared This Photo From 1978. She Says This Is What Her Life Was Like Having Big Brothers

#44 Old School Bike Life Family

#45 Charleston, Sc, Photo By Baldwin Lee, 1984

#46 This High School Girl Has The Jean Jacket And Hair Style That Were Popular In The ’70s

#47 Young Women Sitting At The Bar, Cuba 1950s

#48 Before The Parachute

#49 1942

#50 Priscilla Presley With Her Boyfriend Mike Stone In 1975

#51 Daisy Bikini In

#52 Photograph By Martin Parr, From His Book Bad Weather, 1982, Kenmare Fair, Kenmare, Ireland

#53 Woody Guthrie At Mcsorley’s Old Ale House In 1943

#54 Violinista Con Perro / Violinist With Dog, Ca 1933, Alfonso Sánchez Portela. Spanish (1902 – 1990)

#55 Bob Dylan And Suze Rotolo, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1963 / Photo By Don Hunstein

#56 Packaging Olives For A&p (George Skadding. 1949)

#57 Jackie Kennedy Mannequin, New York, 1961

#58 Girl Talk At The Corner Of East End Avenue And 81st Street, NYC, 1950’s

#59 Diane Arbus, “Woman With Eyeliner”, N.y.c., 1964

#60 The Ford Model Line Up, 1966. (Ford Modeling Agency, That Is.)

#61 Here Is A Woman With Three Young Girls, Out For A Stroll, In Manhattan’s Madison Square Park In 1905

#62 Brando Attends The Funeral Of Black Panther Bobby Hutton, Oakland, 1968

#63 Jane Evelyn Atwood: Paris Red Light 1976–1979 Pigalle, Paris, 1978

#64 1962 – Anne Bancroft And Pattyduke In A Still From “The Miracle Worker”

#65 An Interior View Of The Mess Hall Showing Convicts At Dinner In The Ohio State Penitentiary Located In Columbus, Ohio

#66 Country Wedding, Seine Et Marne, France 1960s, Photo By Yves Troispoux

#67 Brando Attends The Funeral Of Black Panther Bobby Hutton, Oakland, 1968

#68 Untitled Taken In Pittsburgh, 1955

#69 A Contest On Who Had The Prettiest Legs. Cliftonville, England 1936

#70 Walking To Work Along Spring Garden Road. Feb 1960

#71 Masahisa Fukase Yoko 1970’s

#72 Bar Los Siete Espejos (Bar Of Seven Mirrors), Valparaiso, Chile, 1963

#73 At The Caramel Club, Paris, 1963 (Pierre Parente)

#74 They Always Said To Put A Tiger In Your Tank. Glad They Put Them On The Roof This Time

#75 1944 – Flirting: A Young Women Flaunts Her Charm While Sipping A Milkshake With Some Teenage Boys

#76 Romance Is In The Air At Scandinavia’s Most Popular Dance Club, Nalen, In Stockholm, 1956. Photo By John Firth

#77 Washing Day India, C. 1920’s

#78 Angie Dickinson And Director Howard Hawks On The Set Of Rio Bravo (1959)

#79 Paying By Check

#80 Dapper Deputy Dawg

#23 A Covey Of Young Nerds Compete For The national ‘Space Invaders’ Championship, hosted By Atari – NYC, 1980