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100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 9:53pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
A century ago, the First World War had just ended, and the world was a different place. Women entered the workforce in large numbers, a plane completed a non-stop flight across the Atlantic for the first time, and Prohibition began in the United States. Here’s a look back at life 100 years ago. Cc Lalasticlala Myndd44 Seun Ishilove Marpol Semid4lyfe Obinoscopy https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/photos/100-years-ago-photos-from-the-year-1919/ss-AAEGVtA?ocid=st#image=3 1. Soldiers return home from the war World War I came to an end on November 11, 1918, but with so many troops overseas, most would not return home until 1919. 2. General John J. Pershing leads a victory parade General John J. Pershing commanded the U.S. forces in Europe during World War I. On September 10, 1919, Pershing led the victory parade down New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Crowds gathered to cheer on 25,000 American soldiers who had served on the Western Front. 3. Peggy O’Neil participates in the Stage Women’s War Relief Irish-born actress Peggy O’Neil took part in the Stage Women’s War Relief, a New York organization to coordinate the efforts of volunteers among women in the theatre, providing hospital supplies and clothing for soldiers in Europe. 4. African-American soldiers from the 369th Infantry Regiment The French government awarded the U.S. 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, the Croix de Guerre, its highest award for bravery 2 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Blitz4real(m): 10:37pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
Time and season changes, everything is just perfectly created 2 Likes |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Cletus77(m): 2:24am On Jul 24, 2019 |
mistakes from 1914 in photo Spits! 11 Likes
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Amazingman(m): 4:48am On Jul 24, 2019 |
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by sparog(m): 6:34am On Jul 24, 2019 |
Post the pictures here |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by lonelydora: 7:25am On Jul 24, 2019 |
Where are the pictures? 1 Like |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 10:18am On Jul 24, 2019 |
5. Members of the 369th Infantry Regiment jazz band The Harlem Hellfighters were famous for their battlefield prowess, but also for introducing jazz to Europe. 6. A manicurist tends to a worker’s hands J. Heinz was an early adopter of cleanliness and sanitation in manufactured food production. Workers who directly handled food received a mandatory manicure once a week for sanitation purposes, but employees also enjoyed the perk. 7. Women peel and slice apples With their clean, manicured hands, women peeled and sliced apples at the H. J. Heinz Company. 8. A woman operates a band saw in New Jersey The First World War was an opportunity for many women to gain more rights and independence. With millions of men fighting overseas, women took on manufacturing and agricultural positions on the home front. 2 Likes
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by giriraj98542: 10:22am On Jul 24, 2019 |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by MurderEnglish(m): 10:23am On Jul 24, 2019 |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 10:26am On Jul 24, 2019 |
9. Women paint the interior of a building in heels Even as women left the home and entered the workforce, taking on typically male jobs, some maintained an air of femininity by wearing heels, as was the fashion of the day. 10. Ideal homes designed for workers at Hammersmith, London Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail, founded the Ideal Home exhibition in 1908 at London’s Olympia exhibition centre, to spark debate about better housing. The newspaper held competitions for its readers to design “ideal homes,” with the results frequently displayed at the exhibition. 11. Red Cross workers in Boston Thousands of women from France, Germany, America, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and other countries joined the Red Cross, often as nurses or making clothes and other supplies such as masks. 12. Poethlyn crosses the finish line at the Grand National In 1919, Poethlyn won the Grand National in England, ridden by Ernie Piggott. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Joystark(f): 10:33am On Jul 24, 2019 |
So, 100 years from now, we will also seem 'old school' to our great grand kids 1 Like |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 10:33am On Jul 24, 2019 |
13: Women at the Navy Yard in Puget Sound, Washington In 1917, the Navy officially authorized the enlistment of women, and thousands served as Yeomanettes, working as rivet heaters and passers. After the war, they were released from active duty. However, many stayed on in civilian roles such as building ships. 14. A Parisian couple dresses up for the horse races A Parisian couple attends the Longchamp horse races. 15. A picnic before a non-stop transatlantic flight Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown enjoy a picnic in St. John’s, Newfoundland, before embarking on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Clifden, Ireland. They won from the Daily Mail for their historic achievement 16. The first plane to fly across the Atlantic without stopping Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made their historic transatlantic crossing in the Vickers Vimy, a British long-range bomber designed to hit targets in Berlin from the Western Front. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 10:40am On Jul 24, 2019 |
17. Signing the Treaty of Versailles After six months of negotiations, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the end of the First World War by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany on June 28, 1919. 18. The table in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles The historic Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France 19. Lambot on the final stage of the Tour de France At the 1919 Tour de France, Belgian cyclist Firmin Lambot was the overall race winner. Lambot also won in 1922. 20. Former soldiers barricade a street during the Spartacist Uprising After the war, a weakened Germany pushed Marxist leader Karl Liebknecht, along with Rosa Luxemburg, to found the Spartacus League, named after the gladiator Spartacus, leader of the slave rebellion against the Roman government in the first century BCE. The league, which became the Communist Party of Germany, initiated large-scale demonstrations in Berlin, but soon failed due to a lack of mass support for communism and was shut down by government force. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by orble: 10:42am On Jul 24, 2019 |
Cletus77:Southern Nigeria indeed. 1 Like |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by MOSTEC(m): 10:42am On Jul 24, 2019 |
what a wawu..... ....100years from dis time, we will have flying cars.... going to space-X like travelling to another country.... .....robots walking among humans .....and we will now be doing throwback to this age and time... 1 Like |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 10:50am On Jul 24, 2019 |
21. Protesters gather in the street during the Spartacist Uprising Left-wing protesters demonstrated in Berlin with support from Soviet Russia, but were soon shut down by the army and the Freikorps volunteer militias. Both Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed. 22. A campaign for the election in Berlin After the war, elections were held in Germany. Friedrich Ebert, a moderate socialist, led the Social Democratic Party. Ebert won the election and became the first president of the Weimar Republic. 23. Cases of confiscated whisky during Prohibition In 1919, the United States adopted prohibition, the “legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.” The Noble Experiment wasn’t repealed until 1933. 24. A victory parade of American soldiers marches through Minneapolis, Minnesota In January 1919, two million U.S. troops began coming home. Towns and cities across the nation celebrated by erecting temporary victory arches as centrepieces for parades of returning soldiers.
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 10:57am On Jul 24, 2019 |
25. Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin pose for a photograph The two Russian political titans—Lenin, elder statesman of the Bolshevik revolution, and Stalin, the rising party leader, clashed both politically and personally. 26. Guglielmo Marconi demonstrates the wireless Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi is most famous for successfully inventing the wireless telegraph and for winning the Nobel Prize for Physics. 27. Eclipse observations confirm Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity On May 29, 1919, a total solar eclipse occurred, lasting almost seven minutes. Sir Frank Watson Dyson, a British astronomer, designed an experiment that Sir Arthur Eddington, also a British astronomer, led in 1919 that was used to confirm Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity by measuring the position of the stars during the eclipse and comparing them to their normal positions in the sky. 28. The aftermath of the Boston Molasses Disaster On January 15, 1919, in Boston, a 15-metre (50-foot) tank holding 8.7 million litres (2.3 million gallons) of molasses erupted, unleashing a giant wave that reached nearly eight metres (25 feet) high at one point. The disaster killed 21, injured 150, and flattened buildings. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by seunmohmoh(f): 10:59am On Jul 24, 2019 |
wow |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 11:10am On Jul 24, 2019 |
29. Marie Curie with her daughter and students at the Radium Institute in Paris Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie (far right) is famous for her work on radioactivity and for winning the Nobel Prize twice, once for physics and once for chemistry. The Radium Institute in Paris served as a giant laboratory for the scientist. 30. Women working in a munitions factory in Nottingham, England During World War I, as men left to serve in the army, women joined the workforce in great numbers. In some factories, they made up more than 90 per cent of the workforce. 31. Women pushing wheelbarrows down a boardwalk in New York With millions of men gone to serve in the First World War, many women took on traditional male jobs. 32. Actress Myrtle Lind poses on a beach with a Graflex camera American actress Myrtle Lind began her film career at the Mack Sennett Studios and went on to become one of Sennett’s famous bathing beauties. 3 Likes
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Bruno3000(m): 11:14am On Jul 24, 2019 |
I fckn love History. Sometimes I wish I read History in school. |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 11:19am On Jul 24, 2019 |
33. A skating couple shows off on the ice in Chicago, Illinois Chicago has a long history of ice skating on its ponds, rivers, lagoons, and rinks as a popular wintertime activity. 34. A woman models new Parisian fashions for winter 1919 Paris represented the height of fashion in the early 1900s and many young women made a twice-annual pilgrimage to the City of Light to buy clothes 35. Another woman models new Parisian fashions for winter 1919 Small studios on Rue Halévy, Rue Auber, Rue de la Paix, Rue Taitbout, and Place Vendôme were cramped with seamstresses producing wardrobes for the Paris fashion pilgrims from as far away as London, New York, and St. Petersburg. 36. A British ship sporting dazzle camouflage arrives in Halifax, Canada To outwit Germany’s fearsome U-boats, Royal Navy volunteer reserve lieutenant Norman Wilkinson—a painter, graphic designer, and newspaper illustrator—“came up with a radical but ingenious solution: instead of trying to hide ships, make them conspicuous.” The idea was that stripes, swirls, and irregular abstract shapes viewed through a periscope would make it tough to figure out the ship’s size, speed, distance, and direction. The result came to be known as dazzle camouflage. 2 Likes
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 11:27am On Jul 24, 2019 |
37. Two models show off their dazzle camouflage–inspired fashion on the beach Even before the end of WWI, dazzle camouflage began to influence fashion, appearing on British and North American bathing suits. 38. Dancer Irene Foote Castle poses for the camera Irene Foote and her husband, Vernon Castle, formed a dancing pair, made famous by their versions of dances such as the Texas Tommy and the Grizzly Bear and their own originals: the Castle Walk, the One-Step, and the Hesitation Waltz. Irene also “introduced bobbed hair and the slim, boyish figure to the ballroom and the world of fashion.” 39. Actress Mary Pickford on the set of the silent film “Captain Kidd, Jr.” The Canadian-born actress Mary Pickford was the highest-paid actress of the silent-film era and one of the most glamorous too. 40. A WWI U.S. nurse poses in uniform A World War I–era nurse wears the uniform, with the caduceus, the winged staff and serpent, of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 11:34am On Jul 24, 2019 |
41. Volunteer nurses tend beds at a U.S. Red Cross hospital in California The deadliest Spanish flu pandemic in history infected roughly 500 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919, killing an estimated 20 to 50 million people. 42. Masked U.S. Red Cross nurses run a drill At the time, there was no vaccine against the Spanish flu, so nurses and ordinary citizens were ordered to wear masks to prevent its spread. 43. White Army soldiers during the Russian Civil War From 1918 to 1920, the Red Army defended Lenin’s newly formed Bolshevik government against the anti-communist White Army. Here the White Army is being inspected by the leader of the counter-revolutionary forces. 44. The first-known shot of Hitler is captured on film by director Lutz Becker As a precursor to the horrors of the Holocaust, in 1919, Adolf Hitler first branded Jews as the “driving force” of the Communist revolution in Bavaria, characterizing them collectively as the “tuberculosis of the peoples” and calling to remove them completely from Germany. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 11:42am On Jul 24, 2019 |
46. Babe Ruth poses while still playing for the Boston Red Sox in 1919 One year later, Babe Ruth was infamously traded to the New York Yankees despite his “prodigious hitting, pitching, and fielding skills.” The trade is considered one of the worst in sports history and came to be known as the Curse of the Bambino. 47. Rose Kennedy poses with her eldest children Rose Kennedy’s son John (right) would go on to become the 35th president of the United States from 1961 to 1963, his term cut short when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. 48. Two children compare thousands of German marks to a single American dollar Hyperinflation in Germany after WWI was so bad that, by 1920, prices were “12 times as high as they had been before the war.” Some prices, like that of butter, had gone up by 33 times. 49. A German woman uses bank notes as kindling Between 1919 and 1924, the German mark was so worthless that it was cheaper to burn stacks of bank notes than to burn wood. At the height of hyperinflation, a day’s worth of food could cost trillions of German marks. 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by WriterNig: 11:52am On Jul 24, 2019 |
50. Woman with children buying balloons A peaceful scene of everyday life back in 1919. 51. Celebrating peace with a tea party in the street To celebrate the end of the First World War, some Londoners held a tea party in the street. 53. Every day life in New York 1 Like
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Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Raydos: 11:58am On Jul 24, 2019 |
99.9% of people in this pictures are dead by now, And in the next 100 years to come, Almost all of us alive today will be dead!! -Why take life hard on yourself?? -Why do you have to destroy people's life just to make your own life better?? -Why Always looking for money, money , money?? Everything in this life is vanity upon vanity, we can't live forever, We all wish we grow old before we die, but to be honest, some of us will die at the of 30, some 50 even some will die at 24!! Not all of us we grow old before we die!! Why don't you start getting yourself prepared for heaven now?? I understand that you wanna party, you wanna have a nice time, you wanna have fun, you wanna feel among!! - But after doing all these things , what do you gain?? Let me tell you something, people that lived 100years ago don't have the chance to ask for forgiveness anymore, but you're still alive, you still have the chance to ask for forgiveness Change your life today, change your ways!! I hope this post change your perception about life!! We can't be here forever!!! 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by EmmySparky(m): 11:59am On Jul 24, 2019 |
My God... I love this write up... Nice one op... Nothing is constant... We just gots leave a good mark for peeps to remember us when we are gone... |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Dave0116(m): 12:29pm On Jul 24, 2019 |
So while Germany were already running on wheels, America were still using horses?? When and how did they even build new York to be that magical in 1919 |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Dave0116(m): 12:31pm On Jul 24, 2019 |
Lala |
Re: 100 Years Ago (1919): A Look Back At Life 100 Years Ago - Photos by Nobody: 12:37pm On Jul 24, 2019 |
So 100 Years back for abroad still fine pass the Present day Nigeria?? Seriously ARE YOU KIDNEY ME? 3 Likes
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