A recommendation from Slate's Culture Gabfest sent me to the Shorpy Photo Archive, where they have an archive of thousands of high-res photos from the 1850s to 1950s. There's some amazing stuff there, and it's easy to get lost in the time warp.
The photos offer an incredible insight into what life – arb, everyday life – was like back then. The clothes, the tech, the transport... some of it seems to come from another world, let alone another time.
I love the little details in some of the photos too. Like the bicycle resting against the wall in this posed football shot. Guess the players didn't drive their own cars to practice back then...
I wonder, though, what my random Facebook pics will look like a century from now. Although I suppose they'll be lost on a broken server somewhere.