Is there an online photodump of pictures throughout history?

by brain_56

I'm trying to study how people have looked like throughout history. I want to be able to identify what year a picture is from and what place it was taken in by looking at the person's clothes, his accessories, etc. I've been googling for quite a bit but I haven't found anything cohesive. If there is such a website, I thought you people might know.

Eventually, I want to create a table of sorts that lists decades in one column, and then the description of how people from country x generally look like in one column, and then people from country y in another column, etc. (I want to make it as concise and exhaustive as possible!)

davratta

There are two subreddits that might help you. /r/historyporn and /r/oldschoolcool The photos of /r/historyporn tend to be older, but the photos on /r/oldschoolcool tend to show more fashions.

retarredroof

Many university libraries have searchable collections of photographs like this one from the Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley.