The creator of SquareAmerica.com trawls flea markets and garage sales seeking out vintage-photo treasure. Scanning and categorizing grainy snapshots of American history (taken by mostly amateur photogs) the site is a curious journey of the 20th century.

Some cool categories:

What Was On - Apparently before DVR or VCR’s people would document historic TV with a camera lens. It seems almost ridiculous nowadays to be snapping the TV screen but these homemade screenshots of 1950′s news including the assassination of John F. Kennedy and moon landing are pretty cool.

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Wired.com has a photo gallery on Television sets through the years, and it’s totally fascinating to see the form factors that designers, over the decades, came up with for our once-beloved idiot box. Even if its not a HD quality the design is dope! And can be nice decoration objects…