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Simpler times.

Grandmothers smoke and drink in the kitchen, 1960.

American families, c. 1900.

Left: Chief Heap Hungry of the Assiniboine tribe and his family on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana.

Right: The Lopez family of Del Rio, Texas.

Girl...

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Simpler times.

How to be cool, c. 1953.

Women.

Saturday night in Detroit, 1941.

Men.

German prisoners captured by the US Army in Kuckhoven, in western Germany, February 1945.

Good eats, cheap.

Turkey and mashed potatoes on Clarence Swenson’s Tha...


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Simpler times.

Mom’s new kitchen, 1950s.

Babies.

Bath time, 1900.

Women.

Casting call for the television show Love Boat, 1985.

Men.

Los Angeles jail’s ‘drunk tank,’ filled with intoxicated drivers, a few days before Christmas 1950.

J...

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American families, 1850.

Left: A Cheyenne family dries animal hides at its camp in Colorado.

This is the oldest photo of Native Americans taken on location in the American West.

Right: A Boston family poses for a formal studio portrait.

Girls.

Left: a...


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Simpler times.

The dining room, 1960.

Girls.

This girl was born in New Orleans to an enslaved woman and was the property of her white father.

She was brought North in 1863 with others, after they were emancipated, to pose for photographs to be sold to raise funds for the education of Louisiana’s freed people.

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