It wasn’t that long ago that we sniffed out this 1938 picture of a massive water lily lifting a dainty little kitten, so it’s funny to see the bar has raised with an even earlier photo dated 1892 showing even more of these giant water lilies lifting an entire family of kids in North Carolina — including a dog on a chair.

Says the note that came with it: ‘Perching children atop the massive leaves was all the rage in water gardens of the time’. Now, where can we find these water lilies in the world today?

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We usually think of the Great Depression and World War II in black and white, so this collection of colour snaps by the Library of Congress really warrants a good flip-through. Lush and sparse at the same time, these slices of everyday life originally came in the form of colour transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm to 4” x 5”. They were captured by photographers working for the US government’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information departments.

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What’s kinda amazing about these photos which recently ran on the How To Be A Retronaut website is how similar the wives look to their hubbies. Must have been something in the water back then.

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