We absolutely love when readers share their old family photos with us! Each month, we like to put together a few of our favorites. Today's collection includes photos from 1870-1950 and spans the entire U.S. (and even Australia). In it you'll find great snapshots of rural life, "courting", hunting, and even what it was like to go camping with a family of 10, but only one car! Scroll down for the full collection of photos...
From John Feagans: "A member of the Kear family from Ohio." Photo likely taken around 1890
From Willene Mortan Walker: "Our Great Great Aunt's prize hog in Arkansas." By the looks of it, we'd guess this photo was taken around 1915-1920. As many of you know, most people who had small farms back in the day often took great care of their prize hog, heifer, roosters, or bulls. Hit Next Page to see the rest of the photos...
Great Grandparents, Samuel Monroe and Martha Smith Cradic Cook 1910 Northeast Arkansas
From John S. Rhodes: "My great Grandfather, on the right, in the 1880's"
From Cyndi Mazzi: "This was takin in Emmett Idaho. About 1915. My grandma Celia Powell Surber."
From Richard Stevens: "my ancestors in the Tennessee Hills circa 1800's"
From Marilyn Borghi: "This is my family of 10 going camping in 1949"
From Jane Hart Schmidt: "My Grandfather John Kurleff and his friend Christian Olsen sitting on the bumper of the car they bought together - about 1920 NY."
From Dulci Kieres Zemanek: "Nelson Laswell c. 1900 building the photography studio for Fred C. Benton in Oakland City, Indiana"
From Jo Anne: "The 3 Damon Sisters who lived in Tallahassee circa 1900. Aren't they pretty?? From L to R--Annie, Lulu, and Mamie Damon. These are my Husband's Great-Aunts."
From Brenda Martin Massaro: "My grandfather "Chief Hippykio" Harris Heading up a medicine show in the early 1900's."
From Denise Lynn Maki: "This is a photo of my Great Grandfather Matti Nikolai and Anna Kaisa (Karvonen) Hietala. They immigrated here from Finland late 1800's. It has a waterstain and is torn, but is a treasure. It is the youngest photo we have of them.
From Mike Gillett: "My Grandfather and Grandmother Orville and Nora (Bixby) Gillett in 1914. Here Gramps is teaching Grandma how to drive, while they were dating, in his 1908-10 Overland. Broome Co., NY"
From Raine Parsons: "Elwood High School in Elwood Indiana. Probably about 1900. The good looking one on the bottom left is my great grandfather.
From Cat Hawblitz: "My Aunt Jane, my Mother, Annabelle Peg and my Grandmother, Nellie Disbro taken about 1916. I lost my Grandma in 1918 to the horrible flu epidemic"
From Jerry Smalley: "Family Portrait abt 1912 ...... look at that stove"
From Cheryl Steely Gearin: "My grandfather Richard Busch and grandmother Viola. Taken around 1932 in Enterprise, Oregon. He later joined the Navy and was taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Phillipines during WWll. There he remained a POW for 7 years."
From Ron Pat Crick: "This is a photo of Abner Senter Garfield Moore (1848-1927) and family. Probably 1890's. He was born in Cherokee, NC but later moved to Polk County, TN where he owned a large farm with a lot of livestock"
From Chuck McDougle: "I love this picture of my grandmother Pearl Talley from 1918."
From Jim Manley: "My great great grandfather William Henry Clear's ( sitting in the middle of the porch ) place in Carp Lake, Michigan sometime between 1911 and 1938"
From Sue Robinson Meidenbauer: "The family home, buildt by my Great Grandfather, John Coleman. Around 1915. The woman setting in the chair is my Great Grandmother who was from Liverpool, England."
From Brenda Adrian Gilbert: "this was taken in 1950 in northern Nebraska of me and my 3 great grandmothers."
