This Instagram Account Shares Pictures From The ’60s and ’70s, Shows Why It Was An Era Like No Other

Cher walking around Beverly Hills, 1978

The 1970s are often associated with Vietnam and Watergate, but there was also plenty of glamor between the wild fashion, TV stars like Farrah Fawcett, and the disco era.

So to get a better image of the decade, let’s take a look at the aptly-titled Instagram account, 70s Archives. It shares photos that show not only how people looked in the period, but also what they were passionate about and how they spent their days.

After all, nothing paints a better picture of a place in time than those who inhabit it.

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Jimi Hendrix, 1967 (by Petra Niemeier)

Mick Jagger on tour, 1972 (by Jean-Marie Périer)

Newlyweds kiss in a heart shaped tub at the Poconos Palace, 1971 (by George Silk)

Kate Bush at Zojoji Temple, June 1978 (by Koh Hasebe)

A young boy’s reaction to meeting André the Giant, 1970s

Paul McCartney holding a “To hell with the Beatles” button, 1964

David Bowie during a performance in Los Angeles, 1973

Diana Ross in a Bob Mackie dress in 1975

Venice Beach, California, 1979

Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA in a pink heart jumpsuit, 1970

Gay Freedom Day (Pride), San Francisco, 1977 (by Crawford Wayne Barton)

Madonna, 1977

1965. Hair by Phillip Mason, photo by Richard Blinkoff

Goldie Hawn at the Stars for McGovern Benefit Fundraiser in New York City, 1972

Robert Plant, Mick Hinton, & Maureen Plant at a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert. Wembley Stadium, 1974

Cheerleaders spelling out C-u-n-t. Students of the Feminist Art Program at Fresno State College (now California State University) in 1971

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Michael Jackson, 1972

Jim Morrison

Twiggy in 1967 (by Bert Stern)

Queen, 1974 (by Mick Rock)

Behind the scenes photos from “Jaws” (1975)

Stevie Nicks, 1978

Contestants in the Miss Universe Pageant, 1968. Miss Brazil (pictured on the second slide, back row, far left) was the winner

Diana Ross, 1970s

Woman covering her husband’s eyes at sight of young woman taking off her top on the beach in France, 1974

Jimi Hendrix in Hawaii, 1968

Jane Birkin, 1972

Joni Mitchell at home in Los Angeles, CA, August 1968 (by Baron Wolman)

Jane Fonda, 1960s

Cher, 1976

Queen, 1970s

Tina Turner and Janis Joplin Performing at Madison Square Garden in 1969

Amsterdam Prostitute, 1960s (by Paul Kessel)

David Bowie in “The Man Who Fell To Earth” (1976)

Carrie Fisher sleeping on the set of “The Empire Strikes Back” (1979)

Prince, 1977 (by Robert Whitman)

1960s roller skaters

Marsha Hunt, 1969

Lauren Hutton at the 1975 Oscars

Vogue Magazine, August 1968 (by Norman Parkinson)

Lou Reed at the Blakes Hotel, 1974 (by Mick Rock)

Edie Sedgwick in New York, 1966 (by Jerry Schatzberg)

Meryl Streep in New York, 1979

“The right man for the job may be a woman” – Ruth Gordon Schnapp, the first woman to be licensed as a structural engineer in California, late 1970s

Grace Jones at Studio 54 in New York City, 1978

George Harrison & Pattie Boyd at Heathrow Airport in London, 1967

Cher at the 1974 Grammys

Paris, 1967

Twiggy with her cat, 1966 (by Burt Glinn)

Donna Summer in London, 1976 (by Michael Putland)

“A well-worn stairway leads to a house on Oahu’s North Shore, November 1979” (by Robert Madden for National Geographic)

Debbie Harry & Ronnie Spector, 1979 (by Chris Stein)

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The Empire Roller Skating Rink in Brooklyn, 1979 (by Bill Bernstein)

Stevie Wonder in Austin, TX, 1976 (by Lynn Goldsmith)

Debbie Harry in an outtake from her Punk Magazine centerfold shoot in New York City, 1976 (by Chris Stein)

Pink Floyd in 1967 (by Marc Sharratt)

The crowd at a Led Zeppelin concert in Oakland, California, 1977 (by Kevin C. Goff)

Roller skating, 1970s

Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta at the Grease premiere party, 1978 (by Brad Elterman)

Harlem, 1970 (by Jack Garofalo)

Mama Cass, 1967 (by Jerry Schatzberg)

Happy International Women’s Day

Sissy Spacek & Shelley Duvall on the set of the movie ‘3 Women’, 1977

Raquel Welch, 1970 (by Terry O’Neill)

Workers moving a section of the World Trade Center antenna into place in 1979. Photographed about 1700 feet above the streets of New York (by Peter B. Kaplan)

Nancy Sinatra, 1966

East Fifth Street & Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas, 1976 (by Stephen Shore)

Naomi Sims, 1971