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Early 1960s
“This picture is from the early 1960s, and shows my dad (the little white baby) surrounded by a crowd of friendly Yemeni people.”
(thanks Cathryn!)
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1921
Protesters against prohibition laws quote scripture in a 1921 anti-Prohibition parade in New York.
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1920s
The couple above are contestants in a marathon dance, one of the many crazes the public eagerly took up during the 1920s.
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1920s
Soviet demonstration with a large sculpture of a pig.
(via ratak-monodosico)
(Source: zolotoivek, via carnarium)
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Mid 1950s
Note the cat on his lap.
From the submitter: “I hooked a coat hanger over his collar to form shoulders, and newspaper stuffed into his trousers.”
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1910s
Standing on a mountain of already donated volumes, an amiable barker calls for still more books from passers-by outside the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.
