Jump in to our time machine as we take you back 100 years to snapshots of what was happening around the world back in 1926. What was going on in the daily lives of people, what events were happening? Are there things we do now that were surprisingly similar all that time ago? When you do see something in these images that you think relates to your life now, that is the crucial moment when you do feel you have that electrifying link all the way back to that moment and to you right now.
Boys playing in the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, USA, 1926. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group) 
General strike in Britain, 1926. Policeman on traffic duty at Hyde Park Corner, London, waving on an army armored car. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group) 
Shipyard. Sister Ships Under Construction. Baia. Campania. Italy 1926. (Touring Club Italiano/Universal Images Group) 
New York: circa 1926. The Dental Clinic of the Bowling Green Neighborhood Association is treating 1,500 school children of Public School #29 of Washington Street. The treatment is done by the girls of the School of Oral Hygiene of the Columbia University Dental College. (Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group) 
People at a fashionable party dancing to jazz, 1926. (Florilegius/Universal Images Group) 
Joseph Stalin (2nd l) and Vasily Blyukher (centre), March 11, 1926. (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group) 
Arturo ferrarin, schneider cup, 13th november 1926. (Universal Archive/Universal Images Group) 
A revenue inspector interviewing a private business woman in 1926 during new economic policy period. Russia. (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group) 
Dr. Robert H. Goddard next to a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts. Dated 1926. (Photo 12/Universal Images Group) 
General strike in Britain, 1926. Emergency milk depot set up in Hyde Park, London. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group) 
Vietnam: Hang Dao or Silk Street, Old Quarter, Hanoi (1926) (Pictures From History/Universal Images Group) 
Men working at the Weather Bureau Forecast Office in Washington D.C. circa 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
France/Greece: Vintage Orient Express poster featuring the Acropolis in Athens, Joseph de la Neziere, 1926. (Pictures From History/Universal Images Group) 
Aerial Photograph of Lower Manhattan in New York City, 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
Race car driver James Gleason at the Baltimore-Washington Speedway race circa 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
India Conference 1926 in South Africa. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group) 
CPC brand cleaning products, 1926. (Florilegius/Universal Images Group) 
Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1926. A general view of the bathing beach in Palm Beach where the high society meets every morning. (Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group) 
Vintage Automobile Racing: Race cars on a bank at the Baltimore-Washington Speedway race circa 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
Alan Cobham coming in to land on the River Thames, London in his de Havilland DH.50J floatplane after flying to Australia and back in 1926. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group) 
United States 1926. The observation and lounge car on Northern Pacific’s transcontitental railroad line. (Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group) 
Park visitors having fun on a roller coaster at Glen Echo Amusement Park circa 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
A man delivering bread from Dorsch’s Bread Truck (Ford delivery truck) circa 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
Ford Automobile Dealers waving hello from a train car circa 1926. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group) 
C. Walter Wallace, blind organist, playing organ in auditorium at Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia., 1926. (Sepia Times/Universal Images Group) 
Fashionable hairstyles with Art Deco combs, Paris, 1926. (Florilegius/Universal Images Group) 
Stanford team in Tokyo 1926. (Sepia Times/Universal Images Group) 
Honolul, Hawaii circa 1926, Native Hawaiians riding their surfboards and tourists getting an outrigger ride at Waikiki Beach with Diamond Head in the background. (Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group) 
San Francisco, California June 16, 1926. A San Francisco man’s creation to beat high rents. (Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group) 
Fashionable women in dresses by Madeleine et Madeleine, 1926. (Florilegius/Universal Images Group) 
Touring Club campsite in Valmalenco, Italy. Waiting for campers, 1926. (Touring Club Italiano/Universal Images Group)
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