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What People Looked Like 100 Years Ago - 19 Historical Photos

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We are only two and a half decades into the 21st century, and so much has happened in the world already. Considering how different the world was in 2000 and how incredibly tumultuous the previous century has been, one can only imagine the changes the next 80 years will bring. While no one can see into the future, we can definitely reminisce about the past.

These historical photos show what people around the world looked like at the turn of the 20th century. Oh, what a change a hundred years can make...

1. Romania

2. Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan

3. Hawaii

4. The Nivkh people, an indigenous ethnic group from the Sakhalin Island in Eastern Russia and parts of Manchuria

5. Romani people

6. The United Kingdom

7. Finland

8. Pomors, an ethnographic group descended from Russian settlers, living primarily around the coast of the White Sea

9. Ethiopia

10. Korea

11. Sweden

12. Catalonia

13. Ireland

14. The Philippines

15. Imazighen, the indigenous people of Morroco

16. Circassians, a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group

17. France

18. Japan

19. Bonus: even 100 years ago, people loved taking pictures with their pets

Source of images: Izismile

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