A hodgepodge of interesting retro photos from the US (20 photos)

We present to you an interesting selection of colorized retro photographs from the United States. These shots can easily be called a portal to different decades of the 20th century. Let's take a look at the details of American life, everyday life, and everyday life. Enjoy!

Washington, D.C., circa 1901.





A girl rubs her eyes while sitting on the steps of her home after a long day at work. Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911.



Young Olga Schubert (5 years old) is tired, with reddened eyes that she rubs with her palms every now and then. She spent the entire day hard at work, peeling shrimp in a canning factory, like thousands of children in America of that era, whose childhoods were spent in sweat and fatigue for a few cents a day. Child labor was only abolished in 1938.

Maids with a child. Mississippi, USA, 1940.





Children of the Griffin. Alabama, USA, 1936.



The "Children of the Griffin" are participants in a land use demonstration project in western Alabama, near Greensboro. They are all believed to be third- or fourth-generation descendants of a union between a white woman and an African-American man. Most of them are light-skinned and therefore reject life in black communities, but white society does not accept them either.

Japanese people strolling against a backdrop of cherry blossoms. Washington, D.C., 1932.



A longshoreman at the Fulton Fish Market holds a giant claw and a lobster. USA, 1943.



A man leans on a fence next to a field of grazing cows to admire the view of the Blue Ridge Parkland among the mountains in Doughton Park, North Carolina, circa 1930.



American scientist James Stuckey and volunteer Judy Creeden demonstrate the ability of the human body to function as a conductor of electric current during a lecture in New York City sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1966.



Farmer's sons. Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939.



Philadelphia, circa 1905.



Skier in Sun Valley. Idaho, USA, 1945.



Ballerina Gillian Brodie dances on a farm. Here she performs on a milk can, 1959.



Cable car, San Francisco, 1946.



Straightening hair with an iron, 1964.



Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, 1986.



Model Patricia Shield as a lifeguard, 1940.



Children playing on a swing in the Pacific Northwest. USA, 1939.



Coney Island, New York, 1964.



Central Park. New York, 1942.



View of South Street, New York, 1933.