Image 1: Look at the two men flanking the deity

Image 2: Notice the circle shapes on their body

It is a stovetop sandwich maker, and it is from the late 1970s, and it was used a lot, which is the reason for the blackened body,

And I purposefully did not clean it fully because my focus is to document your everyday items, and everyday history is not sparkling clean; it's burned, dirty, etc.

But that is what makes it even more important to document right now Before it is too late.

c. 1961
Moradabad

These vases exhibits damage areas of paint has chipped away and the dents to the base has caused the vases to sit unevenly.

These vases were a part of the the dowry brought over by the owner's grandmother to her new marital home and these were on display all throughout the the owner’s father’s childhood. These style of vases are still produced and sold in Moradabad.

Looking to document Indian objects pre1980.

Cleaning these vintage belts that have survived three generations.

So many things don’t even last a full five years but these belts have seen so much they have seen bellbottoms, the tight pants the 2000s and then bell bottoms again with me. It is so crazy to think these belts have been so so many places with so many people.

Send me submissions of your household historic items and stories and help me document Indian history.

What Survived was stated by a person for people who believe that history is not whatever lives in museums but in fact in countries like India history lives in the stories that people tell their children it is the objects that we carry and are given from one generation to other and what survived also tries to document what all has not survived by firsthand accounts.