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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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    Master Mason Theodore Roosevelt in Spokane Masonic Temple 1905 [300×440]

    11 Comments
    2024/07/15
    18:59 UTC
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    Gorbachev and Bush about to share a meal on board the Soviet cruise ship "Maksim Gorkiy" in Marsaxlokk, Malta. Shortly before the declaration of the end of the Cold War. 2 December 1989 [594×401]

    32 Comments
    2024/07/15
    18:15 UTC
    372

    People bathing in a river during the summer. Japan, 1915 [1530x1058]

    11 Comments
    2024/07/15
    14:04 UTC
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    Eve Arden and Jeff Chandler reading over their script for Our Miss Brooks, ca. 1948. Ms. Arden debuted in her most famous role 76 years ago this week. More info below on the birth of Connie Brooks [900 x 1116]

    4 Comments
    2024/07/15
    13:41 UTC
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    Jerusalem Avenue near Bracka Street in Warsaw, Poland. 1936-1938. From the collection of National Digital Archive of Poland. [1211x851]

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    2024/07/15
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    131

    The Africville Sea-Sides of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritime pose for a team photo in 1921 (433 x 363)

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    2024/07/15
    00:43 UTC
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    Mormon Polygamists jailed at Utah Penitentiary. Circa 1889 [3,532 × 2,728]

    94 Comments
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    21:52 UTC
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    General Aubert Frère, military governor of Strasbourg, is riding a horse during a military parade for Bastille Day. Strasbourg, Alsace, France. July 14, 1939 [800x573]

    1 Comment
    2024/07/14
    21:33 UTC
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    Dance hall, 1930s. Filipino men dating and dancing with white women was a contributing factor in riots and violent assaults targeting Filipino American workers [725x279]

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    German-American tavern owner John Schrank smiles with police. Sometime earlier, he attempted to assassinate former President Theodore Roosevelt. circa October 1912. [3610x4987]

    41 Comments
    2024/07/14
    13:34 UTC
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    Soldiers from the Bulgarian Army in a trench with the Ottoman city of Adrianople (Edirne) in the distance - waiting to commence an assault, during the Siege of Adrianople, c. November 3rd, 1912 - March 26th, 1913. [1024 x 634]

    6 Comments
    2024/07/14
    08:09 UTC
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    Gate Pā atop Pukehinahina ridge, circa 1864. During the Tauranga campaign (part of the New Zealand Wars), an outnumbered Māori force successfully repulsed a British attack on the pā before withdrawing in the night. [4029x2401]

    11 Comments
    2024/07/13
    19:43 UTC
    366

    Chinese authorities deploying tear gas against marchers protesting the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, June 4th, 1989. [1100x617].

    8 Comments
    2024/07/13
    19:07 UTC
    313

    American gas station owned by Pan-Gas in the 1920s, before the Great Depression. [1140x1430]

    9 Comments
    2024/07/13
    07:44 UTC
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    Women entertaining G.l.s, Tae Song Dong, South Korea photograph by René Burri (1961). [1227 x 826]

    2 Comments
    2024/07/13
    03:26 UTC
    1,714

    Shell hitting the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, World War I, September 19, 1914 [2098x1820]

    49 Comments
    2024/07/12
    21:09 UTC
    300

    A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in Holland, 22 September 1944. [720x721]

    12 Comments
    2024/07/12
    16:39 UTC
    120

    Legionnaires marching up the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway in lower Manhattan during a parade honoring the return of U.S. troops from Desert Storm. June 10, 1991[1200x764]

    9 Comments
    2024/07/12
    12:37 UTC
    111

    Methodist Conference, Sichuan, China, c. 1897 [1200 x 877]

    2 Comments
    2024/07/12
    04:35 UTC
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    Experimental camoflauge for US soldiers during WW1.(1917)[962x1288]

    104 Comments
    2024/07/11
    22:39 UTC
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    You'll believe a man can fly. Superman float at the 1939 Macys parade, New York, Manhattan[620x820]

    25 Comments
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    21:07 UTC
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    Richard Nixon campaign rally in Paoli, Pennsylvania, July 1968 [1920x1331]

    26 Comments
    2024/07/11
    20:06 UTC
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    Jimmy Stevens (foreground) and a group of his bow-wielding supporters attempt to gain independence for the largest island from the newly formed nation of Vanuatu. After 12 weeks, Stevens surrendered to stop the escalation of violence after Papua New Guinea intervened. August 1980 [640x435]

    1 Comment
    2024/07/11
    16:26 UTC
    81

    Aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre - a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. 1914. [1263 x 775].

    3 Comments
    2024/07/11
    13:25 UTC
    124

    Boy soldiers of Battalion Miotła ("Mop") during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. All 3 boys survived the Uprising and the reprisal punishment action, in which 150-200 thousand people were killed [3500 × 2561].

    1 Comment
    2024/07/11
    12:45 UTC
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    Chinese soldiers listening for Japanese warplanes with an acoustic locator. Chongqing, China, 1941 [2100x1587]

    19 Comments
    2024/07/11
    11:43 UTC
    2,443

    Historian Leon Popek standing next to the remains of Polish civilians exhumed from a mass grave in a former village of Ostrówki (now Ukraine). On 30 August 1943, members of Ukrainian Insurgent Army murdered 438 Poles there, among them 246 children under the age of 14. Ostrówki, August 1992 [800x500]

    On the same day, the nationalists of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army murdered 529 Poles in the neighboring village of Wola Ostrowiecka. Both massacres were a part of Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia that claimed approximately 100,000 victims.

    177 Comments
    2024/07/11
    11:02 UTC
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    The French Marine Nationale Danton-class semi-dreadnought battleship, bombarding Athens, Kingdom of Greece, during the 'Noemvriana', c. November 18th, 1916. [1024 x 583]

    1 Comment
    2024/07/11
    07:54 UTC
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    The last argentine civil-military dictatorship (1976-1982).From left to the right, Emilio Massera, Jorge Rafael Videla, Orlando Agosti.

    6 Comments
    2024/07/10
    23:29 UTC
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    A 13-year-old Palestinian boy lies dead on streets of Haifa during the civil war in Mandatory Palestine. Passing by him are British soldiers in the process of withdrawing from the Mandate, April 1948 [640 x 855].

    316 Comments
    2024/07/10
    20:48 UTC
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