Photos of the first supermarkets show how much grocery shopping has changed in a century

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A grocery store with people shopping
The interior of a supermarket in the 1940s.

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21 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate America looked during the Great Depression

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Great Depression food lines Times Square
Thousands of unemployed people waited in lines for food during the Great Depression.

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Vintage photos show how people decorated for the holidays over the last 100 years

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A family gathers around the Christmas tree while a young girl opens her present.
A family gathers around the Christmas tree while a young girl opens her present.

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Vintage photos show what it was like to visit Egypt 100 years ago

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Tourists Ride Camels in the Sahara
Tourists ride camels in the 1920s.

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Vintage photos show how the role of women in the workforce has evolved in the last 100 years

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A woman works at an early model desktop computer made by Servus, circa the 1970s.

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Vintage photos show what it was like to live in New York City 100 years ago

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An aeriel view of downtown Manhattan from the 1920s features an elevated train track, a much wider Battery Park, and the South Ferry Terminal.

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20 vintage photos of Alaska from before it became a state

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CIRCA 1929: Child is Joe Moses, Woman and child, Nunivak
Alaska has been inhabited for thousands of years, but became part of the US only 65 years ago.

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Vintage photos show what summer on Martha's Vineyard used to look like

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A couple sits on a beach blanket near Katama Shores Inn in Martha's Vineyard, circa 1960
A couple sits on a beach blanket near Katama Shores Inn in Martha's Vineyard, circa 1960.

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Vintage photos show how glamorous train travel used to be

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Diners ate in a train car in 1946, dressed in formalwear and served by waiters in tuxedos.
Diners in the restaurant car on a GWR (Great Western Railway) oil-fired locomotive in 1946.

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Vintage photos show what cross-country road trips looked like in the 1960s

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Cars pulled up to the parking lot in front of Mount Rushmore in the 1960s.

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