30 old portraits of very different people (31 photos)

Category: Nostalgia, PEGI 16
27 February 2023

The Dear Fred Photo Archive is a free website that helps people literally see the history of their kind. Currently in the archive contains data on 22,927 surnames, but it is interesting to flip through it even those to whom they do not say anything. Whether it's a portrait of a Swedish postman 1900 or a picture of a French woman with a baguette half a century later, these shots clearly demonstrate how a variety of people lived in a not so distant past.





1. 5-year-old Anne Frank in a photograph taken by her father Otto



2. A family from the Stoney Indian tribe in Canada, guide Samson Beaver with his wife Leah and their daughter Frances Louise, 1907



3. Protest against the school dress code forbidding girls to wear trousers. Brooklyn, 1940



4. Tea drinking in the Scottish Highlands, circa 1910



5 The Beautiful Bride Of The 1930s



6. The cat "photographs" the children of the Pyro family: 12-year-old Edmund, 8-year-old Ernest and 5-year-old Cecilia. November 1909



7. Loti-Ki-Yah-Tede, daughter of the leader of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. New Mexico, 1905 Photo by Carl E. Moon



8. Rural postman in winter uniform, 1900, Sweden



9. Graduation, 1939



10. Portrait of an Inuit girl, Nancy Columbia. Photo of sisters Gerhard, 1904



11. Settler family, 1880s



12. A girl cuts a sunbeam, England, 1886. Photo by Adam Diston



13. Fijian, 1880



14. Portrait of a girl. James Van Der Zee, 1932



15. A woman walks her dogs in a dog cemetery in Hyde Park, where over 1,000 Victorian pets are buried era



16. Portrait of Cathy Williams, nicknamed "Buffalo Soldier", 1862 year. She pretended to be a man to fight for the "North" in Civil war in the USA.



17. Portrait of Elizabeth Ann Burroughs/Plain/Cruise/Liddy/Finn/Branson in Cooktown, Queensland, 1880-1890



Daughter of a copper mine owner from Cornwall, five times bride, immigrant, resident of Queensland, Australia, mother of three children, washerwoman and temporary resident of the North Island of New Zealand. All this for 55 years of life

18. A Navajo woman weaves a blanket, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photographer: Christian G. Kaad, 1900



19. A girl learns to ride a bicycle, 1895. Photo by William Gordon Davis



20. Kentucky Librarian Riders: In the 1930s, riders delivered books in the Appalachian Mountains.



21. Girl on the beach of Deauville, France



22. Portrait of a Vasco Indian with a painted face, with feathers and beads in his hair.Wilder, 1903



23. Hop pickers on stilts in Faversham, England, 1920



24. The Gaudreau Sisters of East Stanbridge, Quebec, 1912



25. John Merrick and his three daughters, Geneva, Marel and Martha. 1909



26. Frenchwoman with a baguette and six bottles of wine on the streets of Paris, 1945



27. Children-chimney sweeps in Victorian England. 1880s



28. Pearl necklace. 1900s by Frank Eugene



29. High fashion in Longchamp, France, 1911



30. Peasant women carry water to the hut, 1910s

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