1920s UNSEEN Colorized Photos - A Photo Album of Life in America

[DerekJohnson]

 

[Swaye]

Was cool.

 

[PurpleThrobber]

Wood some of those flappers.

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

Why don't more people wear fancy hats these days? Why'd they go out of style?

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

Also, notice how nobody was fat.

 

[YellowSnow]

Also, notice how nobody was fat.

Imagine 1920s life expectancy with 40 percent adult obesity

 

[HFNY]

Yes, no antibiotics so if you couldn't fight off an infection naturally, you were a goner. My grandmother died of tuberculosis in the 1940's (in her twenties).

But nearly everyone in the collection of pictures made it through the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 (which probably / actually originated on a farm in Kansas).

 

[Joey]

Yes, no antibiotics so if you couldn't fight off an infection naturally, you were a goner. My grandmother died of tuberculosis in the 1940's (in her twenties).

But nearly everyone in the collection of pictures made it through the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 (which probably / actually escaped from[/i][/b] a farm in Kansas).

 

[pawz]

Yes, no antibiotics so if you couldn't fight off an infection naturally, you were a goner. My grandmother died of tuberculosis in the 1940's (in her twenties).

But nearly everyone in the collection of pictures made it through the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 (which probably / actually escaped from[/i][/b] a farm in Kansas).

Was there a pangolin involved?

Asking for a fren.