🤯 INCRÍVEL: 87 Rare And Interesting Photos From A Time We Will Never Get The Chance To Experience In Real Life 😲
As much as we enjoy modern photography, there’s nothing quite like the impact of historical black-and-white snapshots of events. There’s something intensely appealing about vintage images, and we wanted to share our love of old-timey photography with you.
After going through the vast archives of the internet, our team at Bored Panda has compiled this list of rare and engaging historical photos from 100 years ago to show you what life was like back then. Keep scrolling to travel back in time!
It’s hard enough to take an amazing photo that will wow people for generations. On top of that, you need to preserve your physical photo in a way that will allow it to stand the test of time. If you just shove the printed images in some random corner of your attic, there might not be much left of them in a few years.
The American Museum of Photography warns that some of the biggest dangers to physical photographs include things like insects, rodents, and direct sunlight.
Other dangers, however, are more subtle than rats or bugs nibbling on your (delicious) photographs. For example, humidity can encourage mold growth. What’s more, adhesives can degrade over the years. And sulfur compounds given off by wood or rubber can trigger fading.
So, as a general rule of thumb, you may want to avoid storing the photos you care about in your attic, basement, or garage.
The reality is that some of the products that are sold in frame shops and by retailers can contain materials such as highly acidic wood pulp or Polyvinyl Chloride than can lead to the long-term deterioration of your photos.
Instead, the American Museum of Photography suggests that you opt for so-called ‘archival’ products, materials that are designed for long-term stability. In other words, you want to opt for materials that are great at withstanding humidity and temperature fluctuations, as well as protect from bright light.
The poor children have been traveling for weeks and food was nowhere to be found; this boy received a piece of bread from a soldier. Weert, Netherlands, October 1918.
SSM Morgan enlisted in the AIF and was appointed as 6761A (later 6761) Company Sergeant Major (CSM) on 3 September 1917. On 21 November 1917 he embarked aboard HMAT Nestor in Melbourne as a member of the 20th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion. On 17 April 1918 he was transferred to the 14th Battalion. On 6 November 1918 he embarked aboard HT Marathon to return to Australia. Note he is wearing a militia uniform and is accompanied by a dog wearing a forage cap.
According to the University of Chicago’s library, popular methods of photograph storage can be harmful. Ideally, you should keep your photos in a cool, dry, and dark place, and avoid albums with self-adhesive or magnetic pages.
Your albums should have acid-free pages, and you ought to avoid pressure-sensitive tape and rubber cement. Any boxes that you store your photos in should also be acid-free!
Your photos will survive longer if you store them in acid-free buffered (pH 8.5) or unbuffered (pH 7) paper enclosures or stable plastic sleeves. The latter can be made of uncoated polyester, polypropylene, or polyethylene.
Something to keep in mind when you’re out buying storage materials is to check whether they pass the Photographic Activity Test or PAT. Manufacturers should indicate this in their catalogues. Besides, you can always ask the salespeople for advice!
In the meantime, the University of Chicago suggests that if you plan on placing your photographs in boxes or sleeves, they should be slightly larger than the materials themselves. However, they should not be so large that the contents will slide about, damaging them.
If you want to label your photos, you can use a soft graphite pencil on the back. Don’t use markers or pens.
When you’re handling your vintage photos, make sure to clean your hands. Use both of your hands to support the photographs so that you avoid creasing, wrinkling, or tearing them, and do your best not to touch the image area. Our skin, including that on our fingers, has oils that can permanently stain the photographs.
If your photos are damaged, don’t repair them with tape, as this can permanently damage them. Instead, reach out to a conservator for their services.
Believe it or not, we now have a name for this dog. He was Leitrim Boy, out of Galtee Boy and Carlow Nora. Leitrim Boy was born on Tuesday, 12 November 1907, and so would have been 9 years old when this photo was taken (or 63 in dog years!).
Meanwhile, things look very different for storing digital images. For one, as the Guardian stresses, storage formats, file formats, operating systems, and software change all the time.
So, to keep your family moments and artistic snapshots safe, you need to keep moving the data to new storage systems “before the old one fails or becomes unreadable.”
And, secondly, you have to keep converting your documents to whatever file format becomes the new dominant one before the old one ends up being abandoned.
League soccer match for the Dutch championship between HBS and Go Ahead Eagles (result 4-2). Photo: moment of play in the Go Ahead goal area. To the right Go Ahead goalkeeper Leo Halle. Houtrust stadium, The Hague, the Netherlands. March 1925.
If you’re opting for hard drives or optical drives, it might be best if you keep backups, in case they get damaged.
However, if you choose to store your photos ‘in the cloud,’ you have to remember that all of this data is not actually under your control. For example, you might get locked out of your account one day. Or someone might hack into your account and delete your data. Or your account might simply get shut down because you stop paying for cloud storage.
As per the Guardian, you should be wary of any cloud services that don’t preserve your original photos exactly as you upload them.
In our experience, saving the most important files and data (and memes!) ought to be done ‘in layers,’ across multiple devices and methods, with plenty of backups. It’s time-consuming, sure, but it helps us sleep soundly at night.
A parachute is being tested at the central workshops at Malmen, around 1920. A man has landed on the ground with a parachute in front of him.
We’d love to know what you think, Pandas! Once you’ve looked through these photos and upvoted your favorite ones, why not share which ones impressed you the most and why in the comments?
Do you think that you’d like to live a century ago if you could? Why (not)? What do you think the world will be like in another hundred years? What are some historical facts that you recently learned that you’d like everyone to know?
Played by Mrs. Mary Semple Scott in skit at 1920 National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago.
This shop window must have been like a magnet to the children (and adults!) of Bridge Street, Waterford – Licorice Allsorts, Mixed Gums, Fry’s Shilling and Raspberry Cream Choclate… Really gorgeous array of early 20th century goods on display here.
“The 1920’s: A becoming midi-dress, low slung belt, and veil set well down on the forehead. Shoes and stockings were purchased by the Nurses, with no refunds – the style was her own choice, within a limited range”.
At a rural locality in the 1920s in South Australia, four men are involved in transferring bagged grain from a cart to a railway wagon. While two horses wait, two men are moving bags on the cart to a weighing machine, which another man attends; the fourth is wheeling a weighed bag over a wooden ramp with a hand-cart.
Wearing closed raincoats, from left to right: Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and Georges-Marie Haardt. In jackets and black hats: André Citroën and his wife. On the right, with a cane, General Estienne. Photograph taken in March 1923 at the Gare de Lyon upon the return of the first crossing of the Sahara by automobile.
This camp was inaugurated by the Juniors and the Red Cross Chapter in cooperation with the county and the Tuberculosis Association. Fifty boys and girls were in camp this summer.
Mrs Meadows and Emily Rankin stand with a baby’s pram full of flowers and decorated with Australian flags. The Commonwealth Star on the flag has six points, one each for the Australian States. The seventh point was added to the Star in 1908, representing the Territories of the Commonwealth. Emily has a Red Cross symbol on her sleeve.
First Staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Chichen Itza Project. From left to right: J.O. Kilmartin, engineer, U.S. Geological Survey; Monroe Amsden, assistant archeologist and paymaster; E.H. Morris, archeologist in charge of excavations, Ann Axtell Morris, artist, and S.G. Morley, Associate of the Institution in charge of the Chichen Itza Project. May 21, 1924.
Reading from left to right; Kathryn Duguid, St. Louis, Missouri; Mary L. Wold, Seattle, Washington. The Duguid Sisters were on duty in the General Hospital at Vladivostok doing Civilian relief work and Miss Olson and Miss wold were with the refugee hospital on Russian Island working in the infirmary and dental clinic respectively.
Cannot read or write in his own language or in English. Never been to school. Returned to Fall River in May 1916. Applied for employment certificate June 17, 1916. Refused on account of not being able to read or write. Will have to attend school until he is 16 years of age. Presented baptism certificate from Santo Christo Church, Fall River, as evidence of his age. Sister had to talk for him. Could not understand or speak English.
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