A Glimpse into the Morning Rituals: Getting Ready for School in the 1900s

A boy in an Austrian orphanage in 1946 receives a new pair of shoes.

Women factory workers in a cotton mill in Lancashire, circa 1908.

1940s: Beechnut chewing gum girl in Harlem, making a sale

New Orleans’ Bourbon Street (1925).

Alabama, 1890: A daughter teaching her mother to read.

Princess Diana, final Mario Testino photo shoot for Vanity Fair, 1997

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Queen Mary was brimming with American troops returning to New York Harbor.

In 1949, Dal Gulley’s General Store was located in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

New Year’s Eve revelers in New York City, marking the transition from 1941 to 1942

Where 84th Street and Broadway currently intersect in Manhattan was formerly home to this farmhouse (1879)

In 1890s, inside a miner’s cabin in Colorado.