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When our parents passed away unexpectedly, we inherited thousands of old photos our family had been keeping dating back to 1855! We'd always been interested in history, storytelling, and all the curious, wild, and amazing things that have happened on this earth! We found a love for preserving the past through these old photos, and then trying to capture the unique sense of purpose and meaning peop
11/07/2025
A day in the life of a middle class family in Detroit Michigan in 1954. And all on a Ford factory worker's salary! Our money really went a long way back then!
11/05/2025
A couple enjoys a picnic out the back of their custom-built camper in 1918!
11/04/2025
"Running with mom as a kid, unforgettable memories!"
11/04/2025
We love this story: After flour companies realized mothers were making dresses out of the flour bags, they began patterning the bags to do their part! That's when we all pulled together!
08/19/2025
"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
08/19/2025
We wish we still had ours!
Did anyone else have one of these lovely Hoosier Cabinets?
07/23/2025
Anyone else?!
06/01/2025
Love this photo of Laura Ingalls Wilder hanging out their neighbors at the famed Rocky Ridge Farm.
04/23/2025
In the 1930s in the United States, sacks containing flour and grain were made of cloth, primarily cotton. The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing them to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.
It was a different time then!
08/19/2024
How many of these did YOU do?!
8 Things Parents Did In The 50s & 60s That They Could Never Do Today Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s allowed us to experience a different world than our children and grand children get to. We were privy to a special time in life, a carefree time of playing in the mud and not having to worry about anything besides penny candy and winning the next game of jacks. Ye...
08/13/2024
In 1913 the brothers Bud and Temple Abernathy rode from Oklahoma to New York City on the Indian Motorcycle seen in the photo. This was not the Abernathy boys first adventure, however!
In 1909 the two brothers, Louis “Bud” aged nine and Temple five, encountered a host of Old West obstacles, including wolves and wild rivers, when they rode more than 1,000 miles from Oklahoma to Santa Fe and back – ALL ALONE!
The following year (1910) the brothers set their sights on New York City, which they reached after a month of hard riding.
In the summer of 1911, they did the impossible. They rode nearly 4,000 miles, from New York to San Francisco, in only sixty-two days. Once again, the Abernathy Boys had made a historic ride without any adult assistance! These boys were on a mission!
08/13/2024
We found one of these beauties at a garage sale last weekend. Does anyone have any idea what it is worth?!
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