If you don't know history, you are doomed to repeat it. Or so they say.
Black and white photography is a gift that keeps on giving. In its original grainy form, it offers us a clear picture of what life was like before the invention of color photography, and when it's given new life with color it helps remind us that while things have changed, people have mostly stayed the same.
So while we haven't invented time travel just yet, historical pictures are the closest thing we have to transporting ourselves to the past.
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Female Students From Afghanistan In Kabul, 1975
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1920: Women Line Up To Vote For The First Time In New York After The Passage Of The 19th Amendment
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In 1940, The Lascaux Cave Paintings, Estimated To Be 17,000 Years Old, Were Discovered In Southwestern France
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Barack Obama Dressed As A Pirate With His Mother Stanley Ann. 1960s
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The Bread In This 1952 Episode Of I Love Lucy Was Real And Custom-Made By A Los Angeles Bakery. After Filming, It Was Shared With The Cast, Crew, And Audience
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A 'Conversation Pit' From The 1960s
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The Port Of Carthage, In Modern-Day Tunisia, As It Would Have Appeared In The 3rd Century Bce And How It Looks Today
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Charging An Electric Car In The Garage, 1911
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Mom With Her Psychedelic Baby Pram, London, 1967
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This Behemoth Of A Flip Cut, 1960s
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A Samurai With Long Bow, From Satsuma Domain. Japan, 1860
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Tuskegee Airmen In Italy, 1944
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A Well-Dressed Young Lady In The 1930s. Almost Looks Like It Could Have Been Taken Yesterday
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Two Women Showing Uncovered Legs In Public Place For The First Time, Toronto, 1937
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An American Soldier Who Lost His Legs In World War 1
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Duke Kahanamoku, The Man Who Made Surfing Popular Around The World, Hawaii, 1920
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Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956
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Before Smartphones And Online Streaming, 40 Years Ago - Sony Watchman (1984)
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An Azerbaijani Wedding, 1965
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This Is Ash From The Erupting Mt. St. Helens Raining Down On Robert Landsburg. He Took This Photo, Rewound The Film, Tucked The Camera In A Backpack And Laid Over It While Being Buried In The Ash. His Body Was Found 17 Days Later
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A Mother And Her Child In Spitalfields, One Of The Worst Slums In London, 1903
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Mother With Children 1800 Years Ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt
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This Photo Was Taken In The Late 1800s And Shows An Ancient Maya Zoomorphic Stone
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'If You Talk Too Much, This Man May Die!'; Fort Hood, January 1943
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 11. April, 1945. He Would Die Of A Cerebral Hemorrhage At The Age Of 63 The Following Day
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A Woman Walks Her Dog At The Bois De Boulogne In Paris, 1910
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American Servicemen Salute A Soviet Traffic Controller At The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 1945
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“Graf Zeppelin” Flying Over The Pyramids Of Giza, Egypt, 1931
