Great Old Photographs From Back When Cameras Were Newfangled!

A traditional family in Alaska, this image of a reindeer drawn sled was taken in 1900.

In 1910 these children, probably about 5-10 years old, spent their days laboring in the fields picking cotton.

Forestry service officials in 1910 removed the wheels for a car and rode the train tracks looking for forest fires.

Hundreds of men gather in New York's Union Square in 1914 to hear a speech by anarchist Alexander Berkman. Can you tell that hats were very much in style?

Children in 1936 Mississppi in the middle of the Great Depression.

Gorgeous image of a cowboy camp in 1939.

This young man was a lucky survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

An anonymous and long forgotten man rides a camel in the vicinity of Mt. Sinai.

Outlaw Jesse James photogrpahed in 1864. I can already see the attitude.

Inventor of the telegraph Samuel F. B. Morse. The huge beard, vast array of medals, bizarre jacket. He must have been an interesting man.


