Give it enough time, and what we consider everyday life will become a distant and unfamiliar past to someone else. The only way they will be able to explore it is through the remnants and records left behind by those who lived it.
The Instagram account 'History Everyday' offers us exactly that. Sharing pictures from earlier epochs, it allows us to take a glimpse into how our predecessors looked and what they were up to when they were just trying to get by.
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The Great Blizzard of 1888 was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast, with snow from 10 to 58 inches (25 to 147 cm) in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The photograph shows an unidentified young man standing in a shoveled area on Madison Avenue and 40th Street in New York City. Railroads were shut down and people were confined to their homes for up to a week. Railway and telegraph lines were disabled, and this provided the motivation to move these pieces of infrastructure underground.
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#42
This photo shows coal miners in Belgium crammed in a mine elevator coming up after a long days work in 1900.
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#44
This colorized photo shows the Montparnasse derailment that occurred on the 22nd October 1895 in Paris. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the trains air brake failed to stop it. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall. The locomotive fell onto the Place de Rennes, shown in this photo, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry.
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#45
Soviet water polo player Petre Kako Mshvenieradze with his grandson in 1990. He competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics winning bronze, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics winning silver.
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