A hodgepodge of interesting retro photos from the USA (20 photos)
We invite everyone to a new hodgepodge of interesting retro photos from the USA, in order to see how Americans lived in different decades of the 20th century. As always, it will be interesting! Welcome and enjoy watching.
Female guards of the Hudson Naval Weapons Plant during marksmanship training. Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1942.
Portrait of an immigrant posing next to a stove with her child in a slum apartment building, New York, 1911.
Two bathers escorted by a female beach police officer in Chicago, Illinois, are arrested for wearing too-short bathing suits, 1922.
A family in search of a better life. USA, 1930s.
Sea baths, 1910s.
A black family on a plantation. Georgia, USA, circa 1907.
Motel owner James Brock pours hydrochloric acid into a swimming pool to free uninvited guests, 1964.
Window washers in New York, 1958.
Packaging olives, 1949.
A car crashes through a Park Avenue barrier. New York, 1944.
A Dornier Do X flying boat in New York, November 1930.
Female students doing strength training. USA, 1940s
A boy and his owl, 1933.
Oil derricks on the beach in California, 1920s.
Marcia Pinkenfield – six months old, who won a very unusual contest and was chosen the most beautiful child in America, 1927.
Actress Joan Blondell rides a train during the filming of a movie, 1931.
Assembling locks by hand at a factory in the USA, 1915.
New York, 1930s.
Museum workers clean the skin of an elephant for an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, June 1933.
Newsboys in Greeley Square, New York City, 1903.