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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.

Mod applications

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.
  • Include the date of the photograph in the title.
    • If you cannot find the date after a concerted effort, then a rough estimate or simply saying unknown date will suffice.
  • Include the resolution in [brackets] in the title.
  • Posters, illustrations, compositions and postcards are not permitted. Please only submit historic photographs.
    • Videos, collections, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
  • Pictures of family members are not allowed in r/HistoryPorn unless they were taken in the context of a verifiable, historically significant event. Please consider submitting those images to /r/thewaywewere or /r/HumanPorn.

  • 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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    Charles I, Emperor of Austria, is crowned Charles IV, the last king of Hungary, Dec 30 1916 [1200 x 786]

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    British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12) en route to the Falkland Islands, 17 April 1982 [4015x2655]

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    Panama Canal, 1922, (1441x1086)

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    The basement of the Moika Palace in St. Petersburg, the room where Grigori Rasputin was murdered, 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916 (Picture taken ca. 1917) [720 × 538]

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    American pilot Andrew Turner in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang fighter in Italy 8/8/1944. he flew 69 combat missions and was killed in a air crash in England in 1947 1200x898

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    US Army documentation team examines the remains of a MiG-29 shot down by either an American F-15C or a Dutch F-16AM near the town of Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27th March 1999 [1227x899]

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    US Sherman Tanks tucked into the trees in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, Late December 1944 [144x1250]

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    LT. ahmed helmi -(KIA)- commander of the 5th egyptian artillery battery stationed at the suez canal near the area of touson which saw action with other commonwealth forces aganist ottoman forces trying to cross the canal on the third of February 1915 successfully repulsing the attack (632 x 960)

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    Workers heading out through gates of a shipyard for lunchtime break – behind them a ship under construction surrounded by timber scaffolding and cranes - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, c. 1944. [775 x 800]

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    Tlingit woman with nose ring and bear claw crown. Tlingit are Indigenous peoples of the Southeast Alaska, i.e. Alexander Archipelago and surrounding areas on the continent. 1906 [420x476]

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    Once enemies on opposite fronts, Çanakkale veteran Adil Şahin and Australian veteran Len Hall stand together in Gallipoli years after the war ended. (1990 📸 Vedat Açıkalın, When Old Foes Meet) [904x1073]

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    Men of the U.S. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment dropped from C-47 Skytrains behind a smokescreen into Nazdab, New Guinea, on September 5, 1943. [800x573]

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    2 RSO/O1 towing 105MM Howitzers through the capital of Albania shortly after taking the city from the Italians. September, 1943 [Colorized] [1410x752]

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    Navy crew pushing Huey helicopters off of aircraft carriers to make room for landing planes with people still evacuating. 1975 [Colorized] [2160x1464]

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    Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder being tried in the Old Palace of Justice for kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Amsterdam, Netherlands. January 22, 1987 [800x533]

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    Tallinn, Estonia after mass Soviet bombing which killed hundreds of civilians, 1944 [900x585]

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    A guest at a New Years dance, wearing a bridal pair costume / Photo: Topical Press Agency / England - London, 31 December 1924 [1800x1200]

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    British soldiers enjoying some tea outside of their Mk VI. December 31st, 1940. North Africa [Colorized] [1600x1388]

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    Tehran Railway Station. Iran, 1975 [959x697].

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    The bomb damaged USS Franklin entering New York Harbor on the 28th April 1945, A month earlier 2 Japanese bombs struck the Franklin killing 924 sailors. The 2nd worst loss of life of the war for the US Navy, after the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. [740x585]

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    Men of the 327th Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, June 1945 [950x1207]

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    B17F Flying Fortress “Belle ot the Blue” (s/n 42-30094) of the 385th Bomb Group, 548 Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force, 1944. [1365x2048]

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    Sherman tank transporting a Japanese Type 94 Te-Ke tank on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Feb 2, 1944 [2800x2495]

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    From a series of photographs taken by the doorman of The Catacombs, a sleazy club on the docks in Cape Town. 25 January 1968 (1200x796)

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    an egyptian pilot infront of his Alpha Jet light attack/advanced training aircraft , 1985 (880 x 913)

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