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Slum in New York City, USA, 1888
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Relive the Past in Jaw-Dropping Detail!
HistoryPorn is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!
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The older i get, the more the past feels like not so long ago. When i was a kid, the decade before i was born seemed like it was wildly in the past. But now as an adult i feel like even the early 1800s isn't really that long ago. I think part of this is from my mind expanding over time, but i also think part of it is media doing a better job of showing what the past was really like
Your frame of reference gets larger, so you better understand the lengths of time. My Great Great Grandfather lived in the 1800's, so that's just 3.5 lifetimes ago. But, even though things may look similar, and they faced many of the same challenges, their day-to-day lives were completely different than ours.