More valuable than a thousand words: pictures from the past that speak for themselves (46 photos)

Retro photographs give us a deeper understanding of history. Even if these are ordinary pictures of ordinary people, telling about their lives, they allow you to look at mPhotoMirny years ago - and see what a long way has been traveled since then.





1. Three boys in a cart, Pittsburgh, 1920-1930.



2. Family photo portrait in a mirror, made 100 years ago in Japan



3. Father with four daughters, 1904



4. Young woman from the 1800s



5. Woman in white. 1920s



6. Lady and her horse on a snowy day in 1899



7. Portrait of a father and daughter, 1870s



8. Four generations, one photograph, 1905



9. First time on a bicycle, 1895



10. Progressive High School students learn the intricacies of auto mechanics, 1927



11. Sunday morning in the South Chicago area, 1941



12. Barefoot children at a mobile library, Appalachia



13. A boy with a homemade wooden bicycle, Tarvastu, Estonia, 1912



14. Lemonade street seller, Berlin, 1931



15. Blurry but mesmerizing shot from 1900



16. Making the Titanic's anchor chain at Hingley & Sons, 1909



17. Teenage sisters Gertrude and Ursula Falke. Germany, 1906



18. Two gentlemen of the early 1900s



19. Portrait of a girl from Denmark, 1895



20. Boy on a rocking horse, 1902



21. Children's group shot, Massachusetts, 1904



22. One of the oldest documented rear wheel stunts, 1936



23. Lady with a dog enjoying a walk on the beach, 1910s



24. In the kitchen of a farmhouse in Montana, 1900



25. Even window cleaners wore suits 100 years ago



26. Victorian house being moved by horse-drawn, San Francisco, 1908



27. An elegant lady walking her dog in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, 1910



28. Ships on the Thames, London, 1880



29. "The world's largest log cabin." Portland, Oregon 1938. Built 1905, burned 1964.



30. The bride is dressed before the wedding, 1890s.



31. Victorian family, 1860s



32. Bride and groom, 1860s



33. Field kitchen brought lunch for cowboys, late 1800s



34. Hot dog cart, Boston, 1937



35. Two ladies in a car, 1900



36. A family in front of their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska, 1887



37. Fishing friends, Texas, 1925



38. Women gold diggers pulling a sled with provisions, Alaska, 1898



39. Family in front of their house, 1920s



40. Family in front of their house



41. How barbershops started, 1869



42. Young selectors of breed at the Woodward collieries in Pennsylvania, 1900



43. Passengers in a first class dining car, UK, 1905



44. Family in a campground in Washington, 1861



45. Rest on a fine day, June 1922