25 Fascinating Photographs That Show What The World Looked Like 100 Years Ago
A lot can change in a century. From fashion and technology to transportation and daily life, the world we live in today would be almost unrecognizable to someone from 1925. Yet, thanks to photography, we get rare glimpses into that bygone era, moments frozen in time that show us how people lived, worked, and connected 100 years ago.
We’ve curated some incredible photographs that transport you back a hundred years and reveal a world both strikingly different and surprisingly familiar.
#1 Military School Cadets Marching Down Parodos Street, 1920, Kaunas, Lithuania
Image source: Goharskiy
#2 Plaza De Mayo 1920 , Argentina
Image source: serg145
#3 Lively Street In Tokyo Around 1900-1920
Image source: Keystone-France / Contributor
#4 Interior Of Casa Rosada Of Buenos Aires, 1923
Image source: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina
#5 1922 North Brabant, Netherlands
Image source: Steenbergh, CJ (Cornelis)
#6 King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia 1923
Image source: State Library of South Australia
#7 1920 Nuremberg , Germany, Bavaria, Middle Franconia, Nuremberg
Image source: plnkr
#8 St. Faith’s Church 1900 – 1920 , New Zealand, Bay Of Plenty
Image source: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries
#9 Inner Courtyard Of A Madrasah With A Flower Garden, 1925, Yerevan
Image source: Zasypkin B.N.
#10 Ballroom At Flinders Street Station 1920 – 1940 , Australia, Victoria
Image source: imgur.com
#11 Langenberg. Gasthof 1920 – 1930 , Poland
Image source: Mariusz Brzeziński
#12 City Hall 1920 , Canada, Ontario
Image source: Archives of Ontario
#13 Loaded Freight Barge Passing The Russian Consulate, Huangpu, Shanghai, 1919
Image source: Hutchinson Family
#14 Main Building, Armour Institute Of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, CA 1920s
Image source: Illinois Institute of Technology
#15 1921 , France, Metropolitan France, Île-De-France, Paris, 6th Arrondissement (Luxembourg), Notre-Dame-Des-Champs
Image source: pospelov
#16 1921 Brazil, Southeast Region, State Of Rio De Janeiro
Image source: Ilya
#17 Handloom Weaver At Work In The Street, Shanghai, 1920
Image source: Hutchinson Family
#18 View Of Nihonbashi Bridge With Boats Underneath 1911 – 1920 , Japan, Tokyo
Image source: George Rinhart / Contributor
#19 1920 , Germany, Berlin
Image source: maxuju1
#20 1920, Perfume Store, Riga, Latvia
Image source: ihs
#21 1925-1935, Czech Republic, Prague
Image source: alexstone
#22 Tram Stop In Brussels, October 1922
Image source: tockholm Transport Museum
#23 1920, Switzerland, Canton Of Zürich
Image source: Fotograf_in unbekannt
#24 Birmingham. Ward End Park 1900 – 1920 , United Kingdom
Image source: Ebay
#25 View Of Canberra 1920 – 1940 , Australia
Image source: serg145
Got wisdom to pour?
These kinds of photo collections always stop me in my tracks. It’s wild to think that just 100 years ago, everyday life looked so different, and yet, you can still catch a glimpse of shared emotions in the faces: curiosity, pride, even boredom. Reminds me of an old photo I found of my great-grandmother at a train station in the 1920s, same look of quiet determination. History really lives in the small details. https://www.glammedia.fr/
These kinds of photo collections always stop me in my tracks. It’s wild to think that just 100 years ago, everyday life looked so different, and yet, you can still catch a glimpse of shared emotions in the faces: curiosity, pride, even boredom. Reminds me of an old photo I found of my great-grandmother at a train station in the 1920s, same look of quiet determination. History really lives in the small details. https://www.glammedia.fr/
Incredible how a single photo can bridge a century. It’s humbling to see daily life captured so vividly, like time travel through a lens. https://agence-energie.org/