This is what hanging out in a college dorm room looked like in 1910. (University of Illinois)

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Two Baylor University students study in their dorm room, 1890s.

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i have one final batch of dry plate negative scans to share

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some more photos from the tote full of old dry plate negatives i found

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some more photos from the tote full of old dry plate negatives i found

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In 1903 my great grandparents family went on holiday from Long Island to Florida. In a journal they wrote several times about the heat. You can almost feel their no-AC exhaustion in this photo.

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An unnamed young woman recorded her senior year at Asheville Female College in a photo album, Asheville, North Carolina, 1902. It includes a dorm room, group shots of friends, playing in snow, a visit to the mountains, their final midnight party before graduation, and graduation day itself.

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Young couple taking their photo thogether over 120 years ago, Glass negative circa 1890s.

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Some photos of people smiling and having fun during the Victorian Era (late 1800s)

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Just some friends goofing around in the 1890s

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New York City opium den in 1925

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Wedding Day, 1912

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American couple in their one-room cabin 1900.