This talk explores my collection of over 5,000 family snapshots depicting people posing in front of their TV sets in the 1950s and 1960s. I explore these snapshots as an alternative archive through which to understand television beyond its status as an entertainment/information medium. Instead, these snapshots show that people often used TV as a material backdrop for social performances of everyday life (and performances of gender, race, and class identities). I also explore these snapshots as forms of "analog nostalgia" by considering how they have reappeared today in digital forms on share sites like Pinterest, Tumbler, and other online platforms.