/r/HistoryPorn
r/HistoryPorn. Exploring the past through historical photographs. Part of the SFW Porn Network
New rule about colorized photographs - Mod applications
All posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers. So it is perfectly normal for your post to not show up in the new listing. If a post breaks one of our rules you will be informed about it.
Submission Rules
- Include an accurate description of the photograph (event, location, war, year, etc) in the title.
- Titles should not include commentary, opinion or information about the circumstances surrounding the person/event in the image. Please add commentary and supplementary information in the comments.
- Titles should not include any political or cultural interpretation or observation.
- If you cannot find the date after a concerted effort, then a rough estimate or simply saying unknown date will suffice.
- Videos, collections, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
Images submitted here must be of historical events, taken at least 20 years ago.
Post Limit - Please limit your submissions to no more than two (2) per calendar day so as to give others a chance for their content to be seen as well!
Colorized photographs need to be tagged with [Colorized] and link to the original photograph in the comments.
Colorized photographs that take too many artistic liberties will be removed, this includes (but is not limited to) removing details or adding things like patterns on clothing that are not visible in the original.
Images that have been resubmitted within the last three months will be removed.
Make sure your image is hosted by an approved host.
Regarding reposts: it is not a repost unless it was posted to /r/HistoryPorn within the last three months, or if it's already in the top 100 of all time.
If you have any questions check out the FAQ.
Comment Rules
- Personal attacks, abusive language, trolling or bigotry in any form is not allowed. This will be removed and can result in a ban.
- Keep the discussion on-topic. Comments that do not directly add to the discussion will be removed and can also result in (temp) bans. Things not on topic are comments that, but are not limited to, solely consist of a joke, (political) soapboxing, etc.
If you have any questions or feedback feel free to let us know!
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Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885. [1432x1080]
00:56 UTC
The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, 1965. [774x720]
00:23 UTC
Serbian and British soldiers during the last day of the war in the province of Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1999. [1080x1620]
20:33 UTC
Wake of INLA member Patsy O'Hara, who died on hunger strike after 61 days. May, 1981[600x472]
19:47 UTC
A German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939, 2000x1496
13:27 UTC
80 Years ago: The Liberation of Hoensbroek Castle's Orphans by the U.S. 30th Infantry and 2nd armoured division, Hoensbroek, Netherlands. 18 September 1944 to March 1945.[938x609]
The picture was taken at Hoensbroek castle, in the very far south of the Netherlands. The 120 orphans and their caretakers were liberated by the 30th infantry and 2nd armoured division on 17-18 September 1944.
The children in the picture were all orphans and stayed in the castle throughout most of the war. Their initial home in Velsen near the coast was demolished in 1942 to make the ‘Atlantikwall’. Their new, not ideal, home was in the southern tip of the Netherlands. The silver lining for the children was the liberation in September 1944. Velsen had to endure the famine of the ‘44/45 winter and was only liberated in May 1945.
A British officer ordered the castle to be used for the troops, and the children had to leave, this order was quickly overturned by an American Civil Affairs officer. A tight friendship followed between the American soldiers and the (small) castle inhabitants. American soldiers often visited the castle during their off time. The children wore traditional Dutch clothing and made little plays to amuse their liberators in the months after September 1944.
08:15 UTC
Captain Smith with his dog in the Titanic, 1912. [590x409]
01:06 UTC
A living United States flag, formed by 10,000 Navy Sailors in Illinois, 1917. [900x720]
01:01 UTC
Keith Richards ( Rolling Stones ) with His Mum Doris in 1945. [741x593]
00:58 UTC
Master butcher Török Sándor with two of his sons, and prize 420 kilogram Mangalica pig. Törökszentmiklós, Hungary, 1922 [900 x 674]
19:45 UTC
fighters of an anarchist worker's militia constructing a barricade in Barcelona, 1936, during the revolution [1090x755]
15:53 UTC
Paratroopers of 1st (British) Airborne Division give the 'V'-sign and "thumbs up" inside of a C-47 aircraft before being airdropped over The Netherlands during Operation Market Garden. 17 September 1944 [2529 × 1889]
15:02 UTC
'Around the camp fire' photo by William Notman, 1866. From his 'Caribou hunting series', the photograph is made to look like an exterior shot but was actually taken in Notman's Montreal studio. [768 x 608]
14:28 UTC
71st May Queen crowning ceremony at Ewha Women's University (85 refers to the school's anniversary). The ceremony was closed in 1978. Seoul, 1971. [540x338]
13:28 UTC
"Operation Market Garden" Douglas Dakotas dropping British paratroopers of 1st Airborne Brigade on to Dropping Zone (DZ) 'X', at Renkum, west of Arnhem, The Netherlands 17 September 1944 [1829 × 1772]
12:01 UTC
1945:The Bachem Ba 349 "Natter". A German late-WWII rocket-powered VTOL interceptor.[507x720]
09:17 UTC
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini presiding over a session of the Italian parliament, 1938. (2910x2109)
07:24 UTC
Enver Pasha tries the new Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol for the first time, 1912 [1089x718]
19:14 UTC
Members of the "Naftali Botwin" company raising their flag (between 1937-1939). This was a Jewish company of volunteers for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. The flag is emblazoned with the words "For your freedom and ours" in Yiddish and Polish. [1256 x 1924]
17:16 UTC
Family members arrive at the New York City morgue to identify the bodies of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire that killed 146 factory workers, mainly young immigrant women. 1911 [900 x 674]
13:33 UTC
Mongolian men selling hawks in Beijing. China, around 1900 [1300x976]
12:02 UTC
Korean traditional shaman (or mudang) calling out spirits of the dead at a beach. Pohang, 1981. [640x360]
11:01 UTC
"One side of the monument erected to race prejudice" Inscription on the Battle of Liberty Place Monument celebrating the 1874 attempted coup against Reconstruction government by White League. New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 1936 [575×600]
20:58 UTC
On this day 70 years ago, Marilyn Monroe stood over the subway grate (1954) [960x1440]
16:31 UTC
Posessions of a captured North Korean spy confistigated by South Korean police, photographed by the press. Seoul, 1969. [4320x2860]
16:00 UTC
A teacher teaching Hebrew to a class of Ethiopian Jews, 1979. [1800 x 1239]
15:09 UTC
Aftermath of 1997 Central European Flood in Kłodzko, Poland. July, 1997. [960x619]
10:56 UTC
Rare photograph of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia, during their tragic visit of Sarajevo 1914. [603 x 902]
00:03 UTC
What is left of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Ground Zero. 14 September 2001 [1312 × 2000]
17:11 UTC
Lone Swedish police constable Kalle Johansson drawing his sabre at crowd of rioters trying to attack a nazi rally. Linköping 5th of September 1943. [980x551]
16:56 UTC