When we see vintage photos, especially the ones that involve costumes, strange props, and eerie backgrounds – it’s hard to know what’s really going on. Without doing hours of research to figure out where the photo came from, we simply have to look at it without any context, and draw our own conclusions. Sometimes, those conclusions make us uncomfortable. Other times, they make us want to go back in time and pop out our eyeballs so that we would never have to see it. And sometimes, we just find ourselves even more curious about the person in the image: **What, *exactly*, was going on?**

































