A Look At The Past, At The Way Things Used To Be - Caveman Circus

The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family. Yakima Valley, Washington 1939. photo by Dorothea Lange

Settlers outside their sod home in Aberdeen, S.D., 1892

Lacemakers in Brittany, France, 1920

Seventeen year-old on her wedding day (1956).

As many as 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S., most from 1949-1952 using Walter Freeman II’s transorbital technique of hammering an ice pick into the corner of the eye socket and jiggling it.

Firefighter putting out an oil-well fire in California 1931

Diner in 1941

Teenager at Elvis Presley concert at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, April 6, 1957.

Miner at His Evening Meal, 1937. by Bill Brandt

A woman undergoing bloodletting. It remained popular in folk medicine long after falling out of favour among doctors. Mangskog, Sweden in 1922.

Prom in 1954

Mrs. Boris Komorosky at home in Hartford, CT, 1942, photo by John Collier

Stewardesses with Southwest Airlines had to wear hot pants and leather boots in the 1970’s.

Oklahoman family, survivors of the Dust Bowl. 1942.

Homesteaders in Nebraska in 1888