50 Funny and Interesting Vintage Photos of Everyday Life in the U.S. From the Early 20th Century _ US

These interesting vintage photos captured everyday life in the U.S. from between the 1900s and 1940s:

Women and their proposing beaus
Children playing with puppets
Girls basketball 1931 style
Couple with big feet arcade photo
Hawaiian Hula beauties
Turn of century girls in a play
A graceful gal of the 1920s
Man photographs a swan on the banks of a pond
Dog poses with his owner on steps
A very common pose back in the day
Women smoking cigars
Young women hold fancy china ready for their tea party
Children on their sled
Geraldine Reed in 1933
Women putting their heads together at the beach
Young men boxing by the railroad tracks
Girls in a play…at the turn of the century
A costumed and poised girl poses in a cap circa 1910
A boy and girl climb the Eiffel tower in this arcade photo
The basketball season of 1924 and 1925 was a tough one…as seen by these gals
Theater postcard of the 1920s
A young women checks her make up
Women in theater costumes
Two women walk with backs to the camera
1920s Flapper’s with a basketball
Hey…that stinks!
Sign of the times
A young woman poses with the Queen Elizabeth ship
Teens and a car …before and after
Girl with a cow on the farm
A boy poses with a McCaw
California …here I come
Funny group on carousel
Great lines angles and especially curves this girl has it all wrapped in sweetness
Young girls have fun at construction site
Teenage girls frolic near the water in 1910s
Homely girl wades in the ocean
Vintage antique store and woman’s billowing dress
Japanese push cart vendor. This fellow needs to take a rest, now and then…and he can still make money standing still as well….5 yen just to sit in his cart for a photo.
Circus acrobatic girl does a split
Take a pet to the hospital …and cheer somebody up
Photo cut outs
Girls with music sheets
Not going anywhere … too soon
Fun vintage images bought at the 28th annual DC photo show. They posed this pose a lot back then
Young woman poses with her airplane in the 1940s
High school cheerleaders practicing
Fishing contest at the Jefferson Memorial in late 1930s
Pageant 1920s flapper style
Pageant 1920s flapper style

(Photos via John Mathew Smith)

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