Rediscover the Past

"The less you have, the more you appreciate what you do have."

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Seen here is a barefooted little girl seated on porch steps and holding a large chicken in Western North Carolina sometime between 1914-1917. It's reminiscent of a more simpler time when children had fewer toys and learned to appreciate what they had.

Young women promoting "Skate to Work" during WWII, 1940s.

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Audra Thomas posing in front of an F1 tornado in Nebraska, 1989.

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Marilee Thomas of Beaver City, Nebraska took this photograph of her daughter Audra about two miles from a Furnas County tornado in April 1989. The tornado did cut across her farm and destroyed a barn structure on the property but no lives were lost, thankfully.

“The picture of the tornado is a picture that I took in 1989 and entered into a Kodak contest,” Marilee wrote. “I won second place in the National contest. It has taken its own amazing ride around the world. My youngest daughter, Audra, is in the photo. She is always being called ‘the tornado girl’.”

Two young soldiers pose for a candid photo in Austria, 1945.

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In 1945, these two soldiers had hiked up into the Austrian Alps and a friend took their picture as they embraced in the snow.

One soldier kept these snapshots hidden in a shoebox until the early 1990s when he handed them to a relative, along with the ring that he was wearing in the Alps photo, with the request: “Please keep these safe for me.”

According to the relative, the soldier, nearing the end of his life, wanted to preserve the one thing that meant more to him than anything else. He passed away two years later.

Audrey Hepburn shopping with a fawn, 1958.

When Audrey Hepburn was making her film "Green Mansions", the animal trainer recommended Audrey to take home the baby deer so it would learn to follow her on set during the movie (and as needed for her role). Audrey fell in love and napped, shopped, and ate with the doe she named "Pippin".

Diana Spencer with her pet guinea pig during a 1972 pet show in Sandringham.

She won first and second prize, both in the “fur and feathers” section, for her pet guinea pig in two different pet shows at Sandringham. She also brought her guinea pig to her first boarding school, Riddlesworth Hall, where she was made head of “Pets’ Corner,” where the student's pets were housed.