once upon a time

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an old black and white photo shows the telephone lines in manhattan

These photos of a morass of telephone wires in New York City were taken in 1887 and 88, only a little more than 10 years after the telephone was first patented... (via Library of Congress, Vintage Everyday, Retronaut...

an old black and white photo of people in front of a horse - drawn carriage

The 411 on 911: A Brief and Incomplete Timeline

Bellevue Hospital Ambulance, 1895, NYC

an old black and white photo of people on the stairs with bags over their heads

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three creepy clowns are in a hospital bed with the caption'and suzie never did acid again, the end

40 Vintage Santas

two hands holding old handcuffs with caption that reads meanwhile in canada child handouts like these were used to take first nations children away from

These Photos and Stories Will Make You Sad (20 pics)

These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the U.S. government to restrain captured Native American children and drag them away from their families to send them to the Indian boarding schools where their identities, cultures and their rights to speak their Native languages were forcefully stripped away from them.

an old photo of two people standing next to each other, one holding a bicycle

Disabled Civil War Veteran Elijah N. Parkhurst & Wife Elizabeth Grant Rairdon Parkhurst

Disabled Civil War veteran Elijah N. Parkhurst and wife Elizabeth Grant Rairdon Parkhurst. #Victorian #couple #1800s #portrait #cabinet_card

two men standing in front of a large boat that is being worked on by workers

The Statue of Liberty: 127 Years at America's Gateway - In Focus - The Atlantic

an old black and white photo of two men working in a room full of junk

Library hidden in a cave... a unique repository of ancient manuscripts known as The Library Cave. A hidden cache of 50,000 books and rolls dating from c. 500 to 1002 that were deemed heretical and hidden in the cave in the early 11th century.