50 Funny and Interesting Vintage Photos of Everyday Life in the U.S. From the Early 20th Century _ Throwback American Life

   

These interesting vintage photos captured everyday life in the U.S. from between the 1900s and 1940s:

Women and their proposing beaus
Children playing with puppets

 

Girls basketball 1931 style

 

Couple with big feet arcade photo

 

Hawaiian Hula beauties

 

Turn of century girls in a play

 

A graceful gal of the 1920s

 

Man photographs a swan on the banks of a pond

 

Dog poses with his owner on steps

 

A very common pose back in the day

 

Women smoking cigars

 

Young women hold fancy china ready for their tea party

 

Children on their sled

 

Geraldine Reed in 1933

 

Women putting their heads together at the beach

 

Young men boxing by the railroad tracks

 

Girls in a play...at the turn of the century

 

A costumed and poised girl poses in a cap circa 1910

 

A boy and girl climb the Eiffel tower in this arcade photo

 

The basketball season of 1924 and 1925 was a tough one...as seen by these gals

 

Theater postcard of the 1920s

 

A young women checks her make up

 

Women in theater costumes

 

Two women walk with backs to the camera

 

1920s Flapper's with a basketball

 

Hey...that stinks!

 

Sign of the times

 

A young woman poses with the Queen Elizabeth ship

 

Teens and a car ...before and after

 

Girl with a cow on the farm

 

A boy poses with a McCaw

 

California ...here I come

 

Funny group on carousel

 

Great lines angles and especially curves this girl has it all wrapped in sweetness

 

Young girls have fun at construction site

 

Teenage girls frolic near the water in 1910s

 

Homely girl wades in the ocean

 

Vintage antique store and woman's billowing dress

 

Japanese push cart vendor. This fellow needs to take a rest, now and then...and he can still make money standing still as well....5 yen just to sit in his cart for a photo.

 

Circus acrobatic girl does a split

 

Take a pet to the hospital ...and cheer somebody up

 

Photo cut outs

 

Girls with music sheets

 

Not going anywhere ... too soon

 

Fun vintage images bought at the 28th annual DC photo show. They posed this pose a lot back then

 

Young woman poses with her airplane in the 1940s

 

High school cheerleaders practicing

 

Fishing contest at the Jefferson Memorial in late 1930s

 

Pageant 1920s flapper style

 

Pageant 1920s flapper style


(Photos via John Mathew Smith)