/r/ArchivePorn
Documents of historical note.
About
Images of historical documents 20 years or older. Letters, telegrams, ID, laws.
Submission Rules
- Unaltered photographs or scans of historic documents.
- Include the name of the document and some possibly context about the image in the title.
- Include the resolution in [brackets] in the title. Other allowed tags are [Album].
- Use the [OC] tag for your original content.
- Videos, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
- Host your original content [OC] images in Imgur or Minus.
- Using original sources for content is allowed.
- Do not submit a shortened link using a URL shortener like tinyurl.
- If text is illegible please post a transcript in the comments.
- No racism or personal attacks. Basically follow the reddiquette.
Examples of Correct Submissions:
- U.S. Declaration of Independence [800x600]
- Scan of Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Adams [OC] [1024x768]
Historic Documents
- Documents must be at least 20 years old
- Documents must have some greater impact on history
- Do not submit personal documents
Please also visit /r/PropagandaPosters.
/r/ArchivePorn
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Receipt issued to Gabriel Paul for goods delivered to Auguste Chouteau and Benjamin Stephenson during their treaty negotiations with the Kickapoo Indians in June and July, 1819. [2272x1887]
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2024/05/10
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Menu for Queen Victoria's dinner at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 29, 1897. [1144x1822]
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2024/05/08
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Cotton handkerchief featuring a dinner menu for Maxim’s restaurant in Paris, France, May 1899. [2423x2349]
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2024/05/05
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Original food menu (left) and later partial English translation (from a 1929 exhibit, right) created by an eatery during the Siege of Paris, c. 1870-1871. [5301x4056]
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2024/05/02
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Original food menu (left) and later partial English translation (from a 1929 exhibit, right) created by an eatery during the Siege of Paris, c. 1870-1871. [5301x4056]
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2024/05/02
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“Illustrated menu card for the farewell dinner to Professor Johnson Symington. Coloured woodcut by George Algernon Fothergill, 1893.” [2077x3363]
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2024/04/26
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03/05/1919 - An exemple of the Pontanezen duckboard, the offial newspaper of the Pontanezen american military camp at the city of Brest in France [3096x4128]
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2024/04/19
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A miniature leaf-shaped copy of the Qur'an from the 16th century, copied in Agra in Mughal India. [781x540]
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2024/04/14
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Menu printed on silk for the wedding reception dinner of President Ulysses Grant’s daughter Nellie Grant and Algernon Sartoris at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 1874. [2897x5262]
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2024/04/12
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Silk menu for a dinner given for the Legislature of Missouri by the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, February 1857. [2107x3069]
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2024/04/08
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The alleged contract between Urbain Grandier and several demons (including Lucifer and Satan), written in backwards Latin. This was used as evidence against Grandier, who was found guilty of the notorious Loudun Possessions in 1634. He was executed by burning at the stake. [548x775]
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2024/04/06
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“Enemy Submarine being fired on. Our Destroyers hunting enemy Submarine.” Annotated sketches by Herbert Hillier drawn during the Battle of Gallipoli, July 9, 1915. [3167x2480]
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2024/03/21
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Business correspondence between American slave traders, 1841, transcription in comments [1650 x 973]
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2024/03/20
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“Allegory of vanity; men and women looking at the skeletal remains of beauty.” Print by Abraham Allard. [1152x1622]
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2024/03/04
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"A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the Humane British and Their Worthy Allies!" War of 1812-era American political cartoon. [7744x5456]
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2024/02/02
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"A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled 'mirac'. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345." [1322x1755]
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2024/01/26
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"No Substitution." The January/February page from the Antikamnia pharmaceutical company's calendar from 1900. Lithograph by Louis Crusius. [1308x1884]
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2024/01/04
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A manuscript page of binary numbers and binary multiplication by Thomas Harriot circa 1605. (Leibniz is often credited with inventing binary numbers even though he was not born until 1646.) [1500 x 2500]
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2023/12/16
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Camarão Indians' Letters - 6 letters exchanged between the Potiguara Indians of Brazil in 1645. In it, the authors discuss the Dutch invasion of Brazil and which side their people should take. These letters are the only surviving samples of the Old Tupi language. [4088x2527]
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2023/12/15
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U. S. Citizenship Naturalization Record for Henry Kissinger [3521 x 4272]
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2023/11/30
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