The Way We Were History

Little children smile proudly with their little smallpox vaccine certificates, Cameroon 1975

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Me, 20 months old. 1962.

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How Times change. 1969 was a better year for this corner in Chicago.

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My mom (left) with her friends at school, circa 1970s

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People gathered in Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx circa 1978. Photograph by Joe Conzo

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Tired mother holds her big chubby baby as they points and laughs, circa 1900s.

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Girl in a toy store, posing with some multicolor haired dolls, circa 1960s.

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A bridal party in the 70s

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Just some old family photos I’ve never gone through that I enjoyed and wanted to share. Most of these are unknown members.

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back with another installment of scans!

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My great-grandmother holds my mother (1981), and later, me. Both in Kyrgyzstan.

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A working class suburb in Finland, 1973

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