In this throwback journey through the photographic past, let’s take a look at fascinating studio portraits from Costică Acsinte — a Romanian veteran of the First World War — to Nan Palmero’s side-by-side portrait comparison that spans 21 years in Paris.
We’ve reached the third installment of our weekly review of the photographic past. For this throwback adventure, our contributors invited us to visually explore vintage British hairstyles, a ’40s U.S. National Guard chow line, unusual college basketball, then-and-now selfies that spans nine years of fatherhood, and more.
We did a little digging this week for these photographic gems from Flickr contributors of Throwback Thursday. Leading with a celebrity portrait and ending with ’30s cheerleaders literally throwing back, here’s a 9-photo journey on memory lane.
We asked you to join us in exploring the past with your photos by introducing Throwback Thursday last week. Here’s highlights for this week’s throwback assortment, including a huge crowd of people filling Ludgate Circus in London probably to watch the Lord Mayor’s Procession held just before the armistice that ended World War I.