20 Ordinary Women of the Past That Didn’t Need Filters to Look Gorgeous

The first photograph of a person was taken in Paris in 1838. Photographer Louis Daguerre was going to take a picture of the boulevard, but there was a man in the frame by accident, cleaning his shoes. Nowadays, photos are an integral part of our lives, but old photos from the previous century still thrill us and make us look at them for a long time.

We at CHEERY felt nostalgic and collected archive photos you can use to travel back to the past and see the women from different decades.

“Picture of my grandma back in 1939 in Pamplona, Spain.”

“My grandparents on their wedding day, 1956.”

Portrait of African-American mother and baby circa 1960s.

Two women lying on a patch of grass near an apple orchard in Virginia, 1939.

Rose Walker, a married woman who used to be an office worker, now operates a lathe on the nut line, 1942.

“My great-grandmother holding my grandmother circa 1944.”

Boat trip, 1969.

“My mom, 1950, age 20, on a cross-country trip with her girlfriend in a doorless Willys.”

Hollabrunn folk festival, 1969.

Hanging on the telephone, United Kingdom, 1968.

A woman helps a bride getting ready, South London, UK, 1952.

A woman at the wheel of a Sunbeam Rapier, 1955.

Woman with a mini skirt, Vienna, 1970.

Rock Seat, 1957.

Woman works at computer, 1970s.

Mother and child, 1944.

Two Parisian women, 1944.

Brazilian Salon, circa 1960.

A trade exhibition in England, 1944.

“My grandmother in 1955.”

What time period would you like to travel to?