Humans have a long and storied past on this planet we call Earth. There are many relics from the past that exist in exhibits, private collections, museums, schools, and more, but they aren't quite as accessible as historical photographs are.

So get ready to take a virtual tour of the past with this collection of photographs from days long ago, that capture the struggles, lives, happy moments, and tragedies of people who lived long ago.

1890’s woman getting photographed for the first time

Evicted sharecropper family in temporary camp, Butler County, Missouri, 1939

Nap Time. 1950s.

These children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days, and on Saturday from 4 a.m. to early afternoon in Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina, 1911. photo by Lewis Wickes Hine

A Waitress in a Diner taking a Break, New York, 1955. By Elliott Erwitt

1925 Drexel Institute Girls’ Rifle Team.

Four contestants of the Halloween “Slick Chick” beauty contest in Anaheim, California in 1947.

Post Office, Nethers, Virginia, 1935

Eberbach Elementary School Students Celebrate Halloween, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 31, 1939. photo by Eck Stanger

A Pawnee woman preparing an animal skin at a campsite. Oklahoma, 1886.

Sharecropper & mother teaching her children numbers and alphabet at home in Louisiana, 1939.

In the days before fast-food, roadside picnics were the highlight of every road trip (pic from 1958 family vacation)

Fireman rescues Torah scrolls from a burning Synagogue, 1940’s.

Ad for a 4-bedroom home in 1958

French Trench Raiders in WW1

Testing a tank prototype just before America joins WW1

Rows of artillery shells at the National Filling Factory in Chilwell. During WW1 1917

Sniper hides in fake horse carcass in no man’s land, WW1

US .45 cal M1911 pistol with extended magazine and brass catching cage. In the early days of WW1 and aircraft didn’t have machine guns, enemy pilots would shoot at each other with pistols. The cage prevented the spent shells from ejecting onto the cockpit floor and interfere with the foot controls

Fake trees were used in WW1 as observation posts

Soilders paying tribute to 8 million donkeys, horses and mules that died during WW1

Sergeant Stubby was a WW1 war dog who warned soldiers of mustard gas and found wounded men. He served for 18 months and participated in 17 battles. He lived through the war and passed peacefully in 1926.

Sgt. Stubby, perhaps the most decorated dog in history, leading a WW1 victory parade

Pigeons with cameras were used in WW1 for aerial reconnaissance

A unknown British soldier going through what it used to be “Shell Shocked”, known now as PTSD, with a thousand yard stare into the camera during WW1, 1916-1918.

Soldiers celebrate the end of WW1, November 11th, 1918

“They buried him among the kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house.” The coffin of the Uknown Warrior before his internment in Westminster Abbey, a memorial to all British and Commonwealth troops killed during WW1 with no known grave. 11th November 1920