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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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    An Essex farmer paints a herd of black cows with white stripes so they will be visible to the motorists during the blackout in London. 1939 (Colorized) [4800x3732]

    13 Comments
    2024/12/15
    20:59 UTC
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    President Georges Pompidou is holding a lunch in honor of youth and sport in the Élysée House. Among those invited were future PM Michel Barnier. May 28, 1971 [830×561]

    1 Comment
    2024/12/15
    19:42 UTC
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    Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf (Baghdad Bob) meeting Slobodan Milosevic. Belgrade, 2000 [1024x731]

    1 Comment
    2024/12/15
    19:02 UTC
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    Avarian Woman in Traditional Costume, 1883. The Avars Are the Largest Nation in Dagestan, the Mountainous Muslim Republic at the Caspian Sea [709x1000]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/15
    17:27 UTC
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    Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division reunion in 1947- "Bill started getting the men together for the reunions in 1947, after he got out of hospital, and ran them almost sixty years. He made it so the men didn't have to lift a finger.” [720x327]

    9 Comments
    2024/12/15
    17:24 UTC
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    Six Polish men immediately before their deaths by German firing squad. Bydogszcz. September 9, 1939. [1634x1051].

    142 Comments
    2024/12/15
    17:05 UTC
    319

    Woman in biker gear, riding her motorcycle, Berlin, Germany 1905. Source in comments. [900x1246]

    8 Comments
    2024/12/15
    09:45 UTC
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    Crowds gather in front of Emisora ​​Atlántico to learn the details of the end of the Second World War. Barranquilla, Colombia - 1945. [1926 x 1429]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/15
    04:29 UTC
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    A nearly complete B-17F Flying Fortress bomber at Boeing’s production line in the Seattle plant, 1942. (Photo: United States Office Of War Information) [516x551]

    2 Comments
    2024/12/15
    03:06 UTC
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    These American soldiers from the 28th Division Band and Quartermaster Company stayed and fought the Germans in Wiltz, Belgium, until their ammunition was exhausted. Bastogne, Belgium, 20 December, 1944. [2048x1651]

    1 Comment
    2024/12/15
    00:03 UTC
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    US conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein is deeply moved while talking with Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher of music 17 February 1978 in her Paris flat. Bernstein was awarded by Nadia Boulanger the medal of the Legion of Honour. [600 x 600]

    1 Comment
    2024/12/14
    22:27 UTC
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    GIs with the 363rd Combat Engineers enjoying an impromptu Christmas celebration, complete with a Christmas tree with K-ration cans for ornaments, December 1944 (Original color photo) [464x603]

    4 Comments
    2024/12/14
    20:52 UTC
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    Liqidators measuring radioactivity levels. Ukraine, circa 1986. 938x625 Photo by Igor Kostin

    3 Comments
    2024/12/14
    12:53 UTC
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    A representative of the Literacy Corps teaching a class of seemingly-perplexed schoolchildren in rural Iran. 1970s. [900x597]

    1 Comment
    2024/12/14
    04:29 UTC
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    Members of the US Congress meeting with Yaroslav Stetsko, who as leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led the 1941 Lviv pogroms. July 15, 1981 [1180x1132]

    15 Comments
    2024/12/14
    02:48 UTC
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    A man poses for a photo in-front of Soyuz rocket, (1980s), Baikonur, Kazakh SSR. [1179 x 1861]

    22 Comments
    2024/12/14
    02:06 UTC
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    Serbian anti NATO demonstration in support of Iraq. Belgrade, 1999 [1024x706]

    45 Comments
    2024/12/13
    19:11 UTC
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    Paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division, 327th Glider Infantry pausing in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany for some photographs for the folks back home, before June 1945. (Original color photo) [939x939]

    9 Comments
    2024/12/13
    12:36 UTC
    340

    Sophia Loren, Yvonne de Carlo and Gina Lollobrigida pose for a photo in the Berlin Film Festival, 18-19 June of 1954. [640x799]

    10 Comments
    2024/12/13
    08:46 UTC
    212

    Armoured vehicles from the German 14th Panzer Division, passing crowds in Zagreb, Croatia - during the Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on April 10th, 1941. [800 x 534]

    3 Comments
    2024/12/13
    07:04 UTC
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    Republic of China soldiers before the Battle of Wuhan in 1938. [620x433]

    48 Comments
    2024/12/13
    02:29 UTC
    343

    Members of the "Swingpjatt" subculture outside the club Tyrolita in Stockholm, Sweden, around 1940-1945.

    10 Comments
    2024/12/12
    20:54 UTC
    933

    A woman in winter attire with a parasol. Photo by E.G. Stillman. Japan, around 1880 [1500x1803]

    10 Comments
    2024/12/12
    18:58 UTC
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    Col. Gregorio Honasan, famously known as "Gringo", helped topple President Ferdinand E. Marcos and launched two major coup attempts against his successor Corazon Aquino. Photo taken around mid-1980s. Philippines. [1418x1600]

    23 Comments
    2024/12/12
    18:47 UTC
    3,389

    Nixon greets Apollo 11 astronauts after they returned to Earth, as they quarantine for "extraterrestrial pathogens." August 1969 [1342x1332]

    31 Comments
    2024/12/12
    17:54 UTC
    858

    Salvador Dali and others bandaging up Woman Dancer. Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California, 1941.[2048x1740]

    37 Comments
    2024/12/12
    14:23 UTC
    240

    Rescuers probe the wreckage of the destroyed Battalion Landing Team headquarters in Beirut on October 24, 1983. [1467 x 963].

    1 Comment
    2024/12/12
    13:42 UTC
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    Lieutenant Colonel William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan toward the end of WWI. Donovan later went on to become regarded as the founding father of the CIA. Hazavant, France. September 6th 1918. [1823×2313]

    21 Comments
    2024/12/12
    00:27 UTC
    236

    Rising waters of Lake Mead claim another building in St. Thomas, Nevada, 1938 [640x800]

    3 Comments
    2024/12/11
    21:11 UTC
    308

    AMA publicists developing a PR campaign against against Truman's federal health insurance program, Chicago, 1949 [1280x720]

    13 Comments
    2024/12/11
    17:28 UTC
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