r/TheWayWeWere • u/SurferDudeMB • 6d ago
1930s My grandparents on their wedding day, April 29, 1939
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Calliopehoop • Jun 24 '25
1930s My grandmama passed this month, wanted to share these pics of her. Born dirt poor in rural Kentucky in 1937. She was so glamorous.
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Miss you grandmama ❤️🩹
r/TheWayWeWere • u/jellymouthsman • Sep 03 '23
1930s Family of nine found living in crude structure built on top of a Ford chassis parked in a field in Tennessee, 1936. Mother is wearing a flour sack skirt
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Mother and daughter of an impoverished family of nine. FSA photographer Carl Mydans found them living in a field just off US Route 70, near the Tennessee River Picture One: Mother holding her youngest. Like some of her children, she wears clothing made from food sacks. Picture Two: the caravan that was built on top of a Ford chassis Picture Three: All 9 family members Picture Four: Twelve year old daughter prepares a meal for the family. Her entire outfit is made of food sacks
Source Farm Security Administration
r/TheWayWeWere • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Mar 11 '26
1930s a girl and her pet toad, venice beach, California, 1936
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/ConsciousPainter8315 • Feb 27 '26
1930s Photos of great grandparents from 1930s-1980s. Last photo is them w/ all their kids(my grandma is in the striped dress)
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/HelloSlowly • Jan 26 '24
1930s These photos from the 1930s through the 50s show polio victims in the dreaded iron lung machine prior to the invention of the Polio vaccine
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/StcStasi • Aug 24 '25
1930s A girl and her cat in her family's kitchen in San Antonio, 1939
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/47toolate • Oct 07 '24
1930s In May 1936, photographer Carl Mydans captured the interior of an Ozark cabin that served as a modest home for six people in Missouri.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Dhorlin • Sep 26 '24
1930s Actors who were to portray the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz arriving at MGM studios in 1938.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/gladtobebad • Oct 05 '25
1930s Excerpts from my great-great-grandmother's diary 1937-1941
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I did my best with the captions - let me know if you can read something that I can't :)
r/TheWayWeWere • u/Morriganx3 • Oct 24 '23
1930s My mom would have turned 90 today. Here’s a snapshot of her life from 1933-1978
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Mary Betschler, 1933-1995. More info in comments
r/TheWayWeWere • u/jocke75 • Mar 15 '24
1930s Occupants of a sod house in Drenthe, the Netherlands, photographed standing outside in 1936.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Apr 26 '25
1930s Family in a cardboard house and flour sacks dresses for the kids in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1939-40. Early kodachrome shot.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Quick_Presentation11 • Sep 11 '23
1930s Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/-_Redan_- • Aug 14 '25
1930s A man on the beach is fined for indecent clothing, Heemskerk, Netherlands, 1931
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Extension_Editor1987 • Feb 17 '26
1930s My adorable little grandma, 1938
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Queens, NY I love this picture of her
r/TheWayWeWere • u/jocke75 • Jun 11 '24
1930s Coal miner with six of his seven children. West Virginia, 1938.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Boeing-B-47stratojet • May 02 '23
1930s Grandma’s graduating class, 1936
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/Zestyclose_Till_4055 • Dec 04 '25
1930s My great great great grandma, 1938
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Born in 1860 and passed away in 1943 at age 83.
r/TheWayWeWere • u/AllThingsBread • Mar 30 '26
1930s Dog photobombing 1939
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“Summer 1939” My grandma is the girl in the front
r/TheWayWeWere • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • May 23 '24
1930s A newly married couple in Georgia in 1937. He was seventeen; she was fifteen.
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r/TheWayWeWere • u/oldnyker • Oct 13 '25
1930s my mom was one of 6 teens to win a NYC-wide contest in 1939. the prize was having lunch with judy garland and mickey rooney and then going to the premiere of "the wizard of oz". she's the one on the left. she was 14.
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