From a Victorian couple trying not to laugh while getting their portraits done to an Austrian boy laughing when receiving new shoes during the Second World War, the following old, black and white pictures will make you laugh and cry at the same time.
Let them take you back in time and don’t forget to share!
1) A Few Seconds Before Happiness, 1955
2) A Victorian Couple Trying Not To Laugh While Getting Their Portraits Done, 1890s
3) Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor Feeding An Orphaned Kitten. He Adopted The Kitten After The Mother Cat Died During The War.
4) Best Friends
5) Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
6) Girl Playing For Her Dog
7) Brownie Gets The Milk As Blackie Waits His Turn, 1954
8) Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
9) Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956
10) Happy French Girl And Her Cat, 1959
11) The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
12) Russian Soldiers Of WWII Sleeping With Puppy
13) A Little Girl Holds A Penguin’s Flipper As They Walk Together Around The London Zoo, 1937
14) Young Carrie Fisher Watching Her Mother Debbie Reynolds Perform On Stage, 1963
15) Little Girl And Her Pet Toad At A Pet Show, Venice Beach, California, 1936
16) Christina Goldsmith Kissing A Weimaraner Puppy From Her Father’s Stock Of Weimaraner Hunting Dogs, 1950
17) A Hotel Commissionaire Talking To A Small Dachshund Dog In Piccadilly Circus, London, 1938
18) Boy Sharing Bed With His Best Friend
19) A Little Girl Having Fun Pretending To Talk On The Telephone, Japan, 1958
20) Soldier Shares A Banana With A Goat During The Battle Of Saipan, Ca. 1944
21) Mailman Poses With His Heavy Load Of Christmas Mail And Parcels, Chicago, 1929
22) A Little French Girl Gives An American Soldier A Kiss On Valentine’s Day, 1945
23) A Blind Woman Relaxes At The Local Swimming Pool, Watched Over By Her Guide Dog, 1966
24) Nun Dancing With Children, 1964
25) A Young Woman Lifts Her Feet While Embracing And Kissing A Uniformed Us Soldier At The Train Station, Connecticut, 1945
26) Champion Bloodhound Leo Of Reynalton Being Cuddled By His Little Mistress Dorothy Horder At The Crufts Dog Show In London, 1935
27) Le Petit Parisien, 1952
28) A Street Musician And A Little Girl
29) On The Caterpillar, Women’s Pub Outing, Clapham, London, 1958
30) Teenaged Boys Using Blanket To Toss Their Friend, Norma Baker, Into The Air On The Beach, 1948
31) For Paris Match, 1961
32) Medic Feeding Baby Birds
33) A French Boy Introduces Himself To Indian Soldiers Who Had Just Arrived In France To Fight Alongside French And British Forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914
34) A Bear Cub Eats A Bowl Of Honey At A Cafe, 1950
35) A Soldier Comes Home From War, 1940s
36) Queen Elizabeth With Her Much-Loved Corgis Watching The Royal Windsor Horse Show, 1973
37) The Swing And Childhood
38) Bath Time
39) Worker In Cosmetic Company Covered With Relics Of Lipstick Kisses To Prove That Dyes In Lipsticks Are Harmless, 1960
40) Woman And Dog Jumping Rope, 1940s
41) An American Soldier At An Advanced Allied Base With His Pet Kangaroo, 1942
42) Nuns From The Order Of St. Benedict Make A Splash In The Pacific Ocean While Vacationing At Grayland, 1960
43) Gunner Hector Morgan Returning Home, 1945
44) Wally Kilminster Enjoys A Foam Bath With His Dog In The Dressing Rooms At Wembley Stadium, 1934
45) Circus Baby Yvonne Kruse Is Pushed In Her Pram By ‘Kam’, One Of Her Mother’s Charges, On Their Arrival At Addison Road Station, London, From Their Winter Quarters At Ascot, 1958
46) An Officer Holds A Cigar With Two Canaries Perched On It, 1918
47) Nanson Of Netheroyd, A Champion Borzoi, Enjoys Pulling His Young Master Around In A Toy Car,1937
48) Young Soldier Holding A Little Piggy With Lid In London During WWII
49) Ice Bucket Challenge, NYC, 1943
50) Sledding Down Art Hill After The 1904 World’s Fair Was Over, St Louis, 1904
51) A Couple Enjoys An Old-Fashioned Zipline, 1923
52) Children Pictured Decorating A Tree In The 1940s
53) Roller Girl Skating With Kids, 1970s
54) The Future 32nd President Of The United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, With His Cousin, 1910
55) A Young Woman Goes Sledding At Buxton In The English Peak District, 1904
56) A Woman In A Toweling Bikini Poses In A Funfair Hall Of Mirrors, Circa 1935
57) Man Returns Home From Time In The Navy. Carrying Sister While Brother In Law Shoots Them With A Water Pistol
58) A Boy And His New Ball, Netherlands June 1966
59) Sai Gon, Vietnam In 1993
60) Four Pints Today Please, Mr. Milkman (c. 1968, Altrincham, Cheshire, Uk)