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Rare depression era photos that will stun you.

Makes me realize even more how short our lives are. And thinking about how poorly socialized everyone was in comparison to today's world without the internet. Wonder what life would've been like if they had the web in the 40s.
 
arcenite said:
Makes me realize even more how short our lives are. And thinking about how poorly socialized everyone was in comparison to today's world without the internet. Wonder what life would've been like if they had the web in the 40s.
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Makes me realize how no one does manual labor any more. These people had their days full of manual labor, and they are all thin!
 
arcenite said:
Makes me realize even more how short our lives are. And thinking about how poorly socialized everyone was in comparison to today's world without the internet. Wonder what life would've been like if they had the web in the 40s.
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You also see how unicultural and segregated America was. Don't think you could take similar photo's today and have every single person in then be either black or white and segregated at that.
 
I don't find these photos (I just looked at the first 10 or so) particularly different from what I've seen before. They are excellent photographs.
 
lol

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Most of the 1943ish "farm" pictures look a lot like photo's from my grandparents albums. Grandparents lived on the same farm [North Dakota] for nearly 60 years before both of them died within a few months of each other. It's always enjoyable to look back and see what kind of life my mom [and her brothers/sisters] had growing up on the farm.

I doubt 99% of today's youth could survive a week "living/working" on a farm. 🙂
 
moshquerade said:
Makes me realize how no one does manual labor any more. These people had their days full of manual labor, and they are all thin!
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Kind of along the lines of the "in awe of our common day tech" thread, and on this same vein, it's incredible some of the tools we can wield today in place of large numbers of people, particularly with respect to the incredible boost in general productivity. (Also improved: worker safety.) For example, there's stuff like these large mining machines. One person each can perform the work of hundreds of people, using tools made possible by generations of scientific and engineering progress.

It's just really neat how much more work an individual is now capable of producing, thanks to some pretty sophisticated tools.
(And yet we still can't make a highly-nutritious food that tastes just like a chocolate-filled Oreo.)
 
Jeff7 said:
It's just really neat how much more work an individual is now capable of producing, thanks to some pretty sophisticated tools.
(And yet we still can't make a highly-nutritious food that tastes just like a chocolate-filled Oreo.)
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Yet nothing gets easier. Robots and computers are supposed to work for us, giving us more time for self enrichment, but we end up just doing more work, with fewer people. I feel ripped off....
 
arcenite said:
Makes me realize even more how short our lives are. And thinking about how poorly socialized everyone was in comparison to today's world without the internet. Wonder what life would've been like if they had the web in the 40s.
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In one way yes but, I guarantee everyone in the pictures knew the names of their neighbors and their kids. How many today can say the same?
 
arcenite said:
Makes me realize even more how short our lives are. And thinking about how poorly socialized everyone was in comparison to today's world without the internet. Wonder what life would've been like if they had the web in the 40s.
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Read any Spidey07 post and you will know what an uneducated hick in the 40's would have posted if they had internet.
 
I have a box of old stuff from my great grandma and there are some old b&w pics from the 1800's and Confederate money
 
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