Old photos can transport you back to the past like nothing else. Whenever you’re nostalgic, you can just open a photo album and let those memories flood you. It might also tell a story if you’re not the person in the picture.
The subreddit r/TheWayWeWere creates bittersweet, nostalgic emotions, similar to opening up a photo album. In the group, people share their most cherished moments from the past in a photo format. Without further ado, check out our collection of these memorable pics.
#1 Native Woman And Child. King Island, Alaska. Photo Taken Between 1915 And 1925
Image credits: Paul-Belgium
#2 My Grandmother In Her First Portrait, 1886
Image credits: dittidot
#3 Farm Boy With A Newly-Born Lamb :: 1940
Image credits: GaGator43
#4 Lace Making In Brittany France 1920
Image credits: NickelPlatedEmperor
#5 Young Woman Dressed For An Evening Out, Detroit, 1968
Image credits: Paul-Belgium
#6 My Grandparents’ Marriage (1951, Tripoli, Libya). Today Is Their 72nd Wedding Anniversary And They Are Still Going Strong!
Image credits: Djangoinspired
#7 Biracial Family Circa 1900
Image credits: oldsoul8789
#8 My In-Laws In The Early ‘70’s
Image credits: a-Black-Hole
#9 Damascus, Syria Mid 1970s
Image credits: NickelPlatedEmperor
#10 The Closed Bed, Or Box Bed, Was A Traditional Piece Of Furniture. In Houses With Only One Room, The Box Bed Allowed A Certain Intimacy And Helped To Keep Warm During The Winter. Due To Fashion And The Cost Of Their Manufacture, Box Beds Were Gradually Abandoned In The 19th And 20th Centuries
Image credits: dannydutch1
#11 Teddy Girls In 1955 – Their Subculture Centred Around A Still-Bomb-Damaged London
Image credits: CourtneyFish-Lately
#12 There Were No Mobile Phones In The 1970′s, So Students In This Girls’ Dormitory Often Lined Up To Make Calls To Friends And Family
Image credits: GaGator43
#13 A Little Girl Sits On The Lap Of Her Great-Great Grandmother, Mississippi, C. 1936
Image credits: FlamingoEvery5528
#14 Couple, Photo Booth, 1960s
Image credits: oldsoul8789
#15 Mommy’s Girls, C. 1940’s
Image credits: FlamingoEvery5528
#16 Proud Community Grocery Store Owner, Harlem, 1940
Image credits: dittidot
#17 My Grandfather In His Recliner Next To The Old Wood Stove. 1980. He Was 86
Image credits: mks113
#18 My Grandmother At 16 , The Japanese Had Already Invaded Guam And At 14 She Was Assigned To Take “Care” Of Japanese Officers
Image credits: Aeutlutian
#19 My Mother Working As A Secretary In Los Angeles County, 1980
Image credits: plizardi14
#20 Young Couple At A Club In Mali. Photo By Malick Sidibé Dec. 24, 1963
Image credits: John-Piece
#21 Woodcutter Spending His Saturday Night At A Bar In Craigville, Minnesota (1937)
Image credits: AxlCobainVedder
#22 Dancing In Paris, Circa 1951
Image credits: itsacalamity
#23 My Mom On Her Wedding Day, 1947
Image credits: dittidot
#24 Beach Party, 1970s
Image credits: oldsoul8789
#25 Navajo Girl Wearing Silver And Turquoise Squash Blossom Jewelry, 1950
Image credits: GaGator43
#26 Greenland Tots. 1973
Image credits: reddit.com
#27 My Grandpa Getting Shaved In Ww2 By His Buddy
Image credits: A_Specific_Hippo
#28 Woman Talking On A Payphone, 1980s
Image credits: NickelPlatedEmperor
#29 My Dad As A Baby In 1928. This Little Guy Lived To Be 94! He Had A Very Good Life
Image credits: amusesings
#30 My Mam, Her Whole Life Ahead Of Her, 1970s
Image credits: lynzibeebuzz
#31 My Great Grandmother’s Portrait Probably Taken Sometime In The 1920s
Image credits: freezingman00
#32 My Dad And His Sisters, Late 1950s. Dad Was The Last To Go- We Lost Him Last Week. ❤️
Image credits: WhatRUrGsandPs
#33 Television Shopping In 1974
Image credits: DiosMioMan2
#34 Dating On The Fire Escape, 1946
Image credits: GaGator43
#35 At The Puppet Show, Paris 1963
Image credits: Le_Rat_Mort
#36 My Life’s Journey, From A Kid In The 1950’s To Current Day. I’ll Be 68 This Year. It’s Been A Great Ride
Image credits: parkjv1
#37 Te Ata,“Bearer Of The Morning”, Of The Chickasaw Nation Was Born In 1895, Near Emet, Oklahoma. She Was A Storyteller For 60 Years, Relating The Myths, Legends And Chants Of Her People, While Also Pursuing A Stage Career
Image credits: GaGator43
#38 My Mom, 1972. She Would Have Been 69 Today
Image credits: AnthrallicA
#39 My 17 Year Old Mom On Her Wedding Day In 1966
Image credits: Dakiki424
#40 Verrazano Narrows During Construction, Early 60s
Image credits: cjc883
#41 Schoolgirls In Hyde Park Protest Caning, 1972
Image credits: DW_78
#42 Me Posing With My Sweet Grandmother Sixty-Four Years Ago Today On The Occasion Of My Fifth Birthday, 1958
Image credits: dittidot
#43 Model Wearing Sweater With Heart Pierced By Jeweled Dagger. (1947) Photo By Nina Leen For Life. Colorized
Image credits: ectheow3
#44 Happy Family Taking Home Their Book Haul From The Cincinnati Library Bookmobile In 1940
Image credits: BeardedGlass
#45 5-Year-Old Harold Walker Picks 20 To 25 Pounds Of Cotton A Day, Oklahoma, 1916
Image credits: dannydutch1
#46 ‘irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954
Image credits: DualCay0te
#47 A Boy And His Dog Ready To Go Camping, Southern California, July 1969
Image credits: eightbells
#48 The Panama Slide In Coney Island After It Was Built In 1908. Very Popular At Time, Especially With Adults!
Image credits: Paul-Belgium
#49 Star Trek Show Crew With Enterprise Ship Prop 1964
Image credits: whicky1978
#50 My Grandparents Wedding Photo From The 1940s. Poor Farmers They Couldn’t Afford A Real Wedding Dress, So Grandma Wore Her Best Sunday Dress Which Happened To Be Navy Blue
Image credits: reddit.com
#51 Debutante Ball. Harlem, Early 1960s
Image credits: GaGator43
#52 This Woman On The Beach Has A Very Contemporary Look About Her Despite The Fact The Photo Is From The Mid 1920s
Image credits: MyDogGoldi
#53 I See A Lot Of People Post Flattering Photos Of The Past, This Ain’t One Of Them. Here Is My 5 Year Old Grandmother (Bottom Left) And Her Family In 1924 In Tucker County Wv That I Found In An Ancestry.com Search
Image credits: a_complex_kid
#54 Children Wearing Straw Capes On Their Way To A New Year’s Event In Niigata, Japan In 1956
Image credits: ExploreMoreMysteries
#55 A Couple Of Victorian Travellers, 1890s
Image credits: pumpkinmum
#56 They Never Should Have Eliminated Nap Time. 1950s
Image credits: Dhorlin
#57 In 1903 My Great Grandparents Family Went On Holiday From Long Island To Florida. In A Journal They Wrote Several Times About The Heat. You Can Almost Feel Their No-Ac Exhaustion In This Photo
Image credits: ThePassedPast
#58 Christmas, 1964, Poor But Happy
Image credits: Glasspar52
#59 My Grandmother, An Appalachian Woman At Heart Always, Born In 1945
Image credits: themamasaurus
#60 The Crowded Beach Of Atlantic City Photographed In 1908
Image credits: jocke75
#61 Class Photo, Missouri Rural School In The 1920′s. Many Bare Feet
Image credits: GaGator43
#62 The Unexplained Photo, Circa 1955
Image credits: Slow-moving-sloth
#63 Rural American Life In The First Half Of The 20th Century, By Mike Disfarmer, Whose Life Was A Mystery, And Whose Work Was Only Discovered Posthumously
Image credits: satsumasilk
#64 My Grandma, Born 1920, Was In Her 20s Here. She Worked As A “Rosie The Riveter” During Wwii!
Image credits: exoinsect
#65 My Parents In The Mid 1940s. I’ve Always Loved This Picture
Image credits: MargieVH
#66 Summer 1979. Me And The Old Man Sitting Down For Lunch
Image credits: Spare-Cap-3152
#67 My Paternal Grandparents Swimming, 1951
Image credits: karluizballer
#68 Both Men And Women That Came Along To The Many Divorce Ranches In Nevada, Were Referred To As “Dudes”. These Two Dudes Were Staying At The Flying Me Ranch In Washoe Valley, During Their Respective Divorces. 1947
Image credits: reddit.com
#69 Continuous Matter Of Servitude – Airlines Terminal, Atlanta, Ga 1956, 2am Est
Image credits: JaeSolomon
#70 Fireman Rescues Torah Scrolls From A Burning Synagogue, 1940’s
Image credits: 5_Frog_Margin
#71 This Is A Picture Of My Great Grandparents On The Night They Got Engaged. Circa Early 1900s I Believe?
Image credits: SmugChinchilla
#72 Teenagers At An Elvis Presley Rock Concert In Philadelphia, 1957
Image credits: jocke75
#73 A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, Ca. 1930. “I Left School To Earn $21 A Week. My Teacher’s Pay Is $17.78 A Week.” Photo: Paul Thompson
Image credits: Paul-Belgium
#74 The Oldest Photo In My Family, Taken Around 1845 Of My 5th Great Grandparents
Image credits: lajollahc
#75 My Mom – Italy, 1963
Image credits: admaiora_
#76 Adorable Series Of Mother And Daughter Photographs From 1900
Image credits: pumpkinmum
#77 My Grandpa (Right) Being A Goof With One Of His Shipmates, Wwii
Image credits: DarkestLore696
#78 My Dad – Family Trip Across Canada 1974
Image credits: GroovyFrood
#79 July, 1942: Children Leaving School. Dunklin County, Missouri
Image credits: morganmonroe81
#80 My Grandma In The 1940’s. She’s 99 Years Old Now And Still Going Strong
Image credits: dianasaurus-derp
#81 My Great Grandparents On Their Wedding Day, 18 Days Before Pearl Harbor. She Was 22, He Was 20. Both Lived Into The Next Century
Image credits: a_complex_kid
#82 Corona Del Mar High School Students, Newport Beach, California, 1969
Image credits: DualCay0te
#83 With Her Husband At War, Mom Works On The Woody, Ca. 1944. (Life Magazine)
Image credits: GaGator43
#84 Forced Perspective On The Beach, Circa 1943
Image credits: Slow-moving-sloth
#85 At The Beach. 1920’s
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#86 Sandwiches For Sale. London, 1972
Image credits: dearlyRedefine557
#87 My Mom Is Back, This Time Wishing You A Happy First Day Of Winter, And To Confess That She Took All The Tinsel During Christmas 1958
Image credits: ThePassedPast
#88 Me At Age 17, 1953, Colorised (I Have The Original On My Profile)
Image credits: Nadezhda-Markovna
#89 Photos From Previous Owner Of Our 1953 Home
Image credits: titanunveiled
#90 A Young Girl Holds A Skunk At Summer Camp, 1963
Image credits: MyDogGoldi
#91 1930. My Father, Age 25. He And My Mother Were On A Sight-Seeing Trip From Canton, Ohio To Niagara Falls. (I Think For Their 1-Year Anniversary.) They Stayed Overnight At These Cabins
Image credits: Logybayer
#92 My Parents When They First Met
Image credits: concrete_kid21
#93 Mom Keeping An Eye On Us Kids While On A Family Road Trip, 1963
Image credits: dittidot
#94 My Grandfather (Center) On His Family Farm In The Catskills With Some Friends Circa 1915
Image credits: jphilipre
#95 North Carolina Tobacco Queens In ‘Tobacco Bikinis’, 1950′s
Image credits: GaGator43
#96 My Great-Grandfather’s Mugshots, After He Was Arrested For Bigamy. December 1926, Australia
Image credits: maiaatlantis
#97 My Father And His Dog “Thunder” In 1929
Image credits: Logybayer
#98 A Moment With My College Dormmates, 1972
Image credits: dittidot
#99 Seventeen Year-Old On Her Wedding Day (1956)
Image credits: GaGator43
#100 Coal Miner’s Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom ,1938
Image credits: ExploreMoreMysteries
#101 Father And Son Goofing Off, 1910s
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#102 My Great Grandparents, Together Since High School. This Was About 1945, She Passed Away Last Year
Image credits: mysticalmestizo
#103 Mugshot Of My 18yo Grandad From 1925
Image credits: Spare-Cap-3152
#104 This Great Photo Was Taken Near Allentown, Pennsylvania. I Am Certain Of The Date Because It Is Written On It, February 13, 1905. This Is One Of My Favorites And I Made Wallpaper Out Of It I Liked It So Much
Image credits: memorylanepr
#105 Opal Cooper Baking And Canning In The Kitchen Of Her Farmhouse Near Radcliffe, Iowa, September 9, 1957
Image credits: notbob1959
#106 People Of New York City At Lunchtime, Photos Taken Circa 1977-1980 By Charles H. Traub
Image credits: Slow-moving-sloth
#107 My Dad At 22-Years Old Cruising With His New Wife (My Mom) In 1958. [oc]
Image credits: ThePassedPast
#108 My Grandma When She Was About 40 And A Few Months Before She Passed Away When She Was 90
Image credits: jferg4802
#109 My Parents In August 1964
Image credits: ecobot
#110 Yearbook From 1929. The Way High Schoolers Were
Image credits: boolishness