A Selection of Interesting and Unusual Photos from the USA (21 photos)

All the photos were taken in the 20th century and show well how Americans lived in different decades. All the photos were colorized and restored.





Child workers at a packing plant. Baltimore, Maryland, 1909.

Nobody cared that they were children. Labor force, and that's all. In the early 20th century, life was not easy in almost all countries of the world, and the abolition of child labor in the United States occurred only in 1941.



Chicago, 1907.





"Hollywoodland". USA. 1920s. The world-famous sign on the Hollywood Hills was erected in 1923 and originally read "Hollywoodland". In 1939, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce bought it and the word "land" was dropped from the name, and "Hollywood" became a symbol of the nascent film industry.



Shepherds sleeping on the grass under sheepskins, USA, 1937.



A line for food at a Red Cross station during the Great Depression, with a poster in the background: "There is no other way of life than the American way." Ohio, 1937.

I assume the line is made up of non-white Americans, because in the 1930s, segregation meant fewer blacks were hired. Sure, all the low-grade service jobs were for them, but the rest of the jobs were for whites. And since even whites had a hard time finding jobs during the Great Depression, all blacks could do was stand in line for free stuff.



Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

A mobile log cabin on a truck, carved from a single large hollowed-out log. Seattle, Washington, 1920s.

In one of the selections I already posted photos where poor Americans made houses from sequoia stumps. In this case, such a log house was used as a cabin for lumberjacks.



A miner's family in the backyard of their house. West Virginia, 1938.

Of course, it's hard to call it a house, there was a time for that.



Miss Martha Sue McCown of Norwalk, inspects the damage to her Ford Galaxy after she drove it at high speed onto a median. USA, 1962.

Cars of that era were something different and more robust. "The car is fine, just replace the damaged driver and it's ready to go!"



A giant inflatable Pinocchio from the 13th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, 1937.

The first Thanksgiving Day Parade took place on November 27, 1924, when Macy's employees took to the streets to celebrate the first Macy's Christmas Parade. The parade became so popular that it became an annual tradition.



A one-class school during the Great Depression. Alabama, USA, 1937. This is a poor rural school, the barrel in the center, if anyone does not understand - it is a potbelly stove. On the board is a drawing of a wolf with Little Red Riding Hood, and the teacher writes about a little kitten. In such a school, you can not skip class.



Mobile geological laboratory - a prototype of the lunar transport vehicle MOLAB. General Motors, 1965.

The rigors of working outside the atmosphere have often led to some rather strange designs for NASA vehicles, but few have been more alien than this mobile lunar field laboratory from the heyday of the space age. Too bad it never made it to another planet.



A Ford tractor clears snow from a street in Washington, D.C., 1925.

Whether the workers managed to clear the road is unknown; the bucket is nowhere to be seen.



A group of tourists in Las Vegas watch a nuclear bomb test from the front row in 1953.

Almost everyone is naked, facing the explosion, so that the nuclear tan can spread evenly. And the hotel with the telling name "The Last Frontier". The test site is located in the United States in the south of Nevada in Nye County, just 105 km northwest of Las Vegas. In the 1950s, nuclear bomb tests were often carried out there.



On the day of the repeal of Prohibition. USA, 1933.

The woman in the gray coat prepared thoroughly, choosing a larger glass.

But during the Prohibition, any trip to get a drink turned into an adventure. And alcoholism was a kind of civic position.



A train leaves the Wabash Station, Chicago-Kansas City, in Delmar, 1923.



Photographer: W. S. Person

A streetcar in San Francisco, 1947.

The steep hills of the city are an important feature of San Francisco's geography, greatly influencing transportation, construction, and urban planning. There are 42 hills in the city.



Lights, camera, action. Filming on the back lot of a Hollywood studio, 1920s.

A dirty yard, a crooked fence, an artificial palm tree... The birth of the legendary American film industry.



A soup kitchen for the unemployed and destitute during the Great Depression, 1930s.

The period spanned from 1929 to 1933 and was so named because it left millions of people without a livelihood.



An electric car on the sidewalk in Venice, Los Angeles, circa 1920. Venice is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, located in the West Side area of ​​the city.



A boy selling apples along a road in North Carolina, circa 1934.

A cute little boy in trendy denim overalls and bare feet helps his parents earn a penny on the highway.