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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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    Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi inspects honor guard in Denmark,1959 [582×872]

    25 Comments
    2024/12/03
    13:41 UTC
    0

    Florence Griffith Joyner wins gold at the Seul Olympic Games, 100 meter track, 25 of september of 1988. [1600x1308]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/03
    10:55 UTC
    648

    Rarely-seen alternate photo of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's arrest on December 13, 2003 in "Operation Red Dawn." The man with his hand on Saddams collar is US delta force operator Kevin Holland. (2048x1356)

    102 Comments
    2024/12/03
    05:47 UTC
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    In 2003, police discovered a 350lb tiger named Ming living in a NYC apartment, along with an alligator named Al. This photo captures the moment officers confronted the tiger. (640x639)

    14 Comments
    2024/12/02
    22:53 UTC
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    On 19 October 1954 , Jawaharlal Nehru and Mao discuss about the future of their nations post WW2. 1200x675

    0 Comments
    2024/12/02
    22:49 UTC
    2,901

    Japanese soldiers play with two girls in a propaganda shot. Nanjing, circa 1937-1938. [2061x1531].

    124 Comments
    2024/12/02
    19:39 UTC
    484

    British troops trying to read ancient Greek at the Acropolis, during revolution of December 1944 [736x721]

    29 Comments
    2024/12/02
    14:30 UTC
    257

    Eamon de Valera inspects members of the Western Division of the Irish Republican Army at Sixmilebridge in County Clare. ca.1920. [976 x 662].

    5 Comments
    2024/12/02
    14:40 UTC
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    Supporters of jailed former president Joseph Estrada kneel before the gates of Malacañang Palace to protest his arrest. Shortly after, they were forcefully dispersed by state security forces. May 01, 2001. [1024x683]

    1 Comment
    2024/12/02
    14:54 UTC
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    A woman from the Literacy Corps (Sepah-e Danesh) teaches mathematics to students in a village school. Iran, 1960s [1604 x 1634].

    35 Comments
    2024/12/02
    15:39 UTC
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    A Japanese customs official returns 1,000 of the 14,000 yen found on a Korean repatriate. Senzaki, Japan. 1946. [4277x3408]

    24 Comments
    2024/12/02
    08:00 UTC
    201

    Women working in a C-47 Douglas Cargo Transport by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California, 1941-43. [640x849]

    4 Comments
    2024/12/02
    07:53 UTC
    474

    Notorious anticommunist Russian general Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg, originally of Baltic-German descent, as a child, 1893. Even as a child Sternberg was a brutal psychopath who enjoyed torturing animals before he was even 12 years old. (1066x748)

    38 Comments
    2024/12/02
    06:59 UTC
    485

    Emperor Wilhelm II making a speech to the German East Asian Expeditionary Corps (Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps) departing to quell the Boxer Rebellion. Bremerkaven, Free City of Bremen, Germany. July 27, 1900 [800x566]

    21 Comments
    2024/12/01
    23:00 UTC
    2,482

    On this day in 1991, an overwhelming majority (92,3%) of Ukrainians voted in favor of independence. [1224x815]

    40 Comments
    2024/12/01
    19:40 UTC
    698

    Georgian highlander (khevsur) in military attire. Tiflis province (Georgia), Russian Empire, 1907 [675x900]

    11 Comments
    2024/12/01
    18:13 UTC
    745

    Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris, ca. 1884, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi’s U.S. Patent [850x1365]

    13 Comments
    2024/12/01
    17:56 UTC
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    Washington D.C. police officers combing through the area around the White House for spent shell casings after the failed attempt to assassinate President Bill Clinton by Francisco Martin Duran, October 29th, 1994. [1440x1177]

    3 Comments
    2024/12/01
    16:37 UTC
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    Fiji men who had taken bodybuilding pose for a photo with the gym instructor showing their progress, Circa 1919. Text in photo of origin. [1322x1150]

    43 Comments
    2024/12/01
    08:51 UTC
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    Angus Young playing guitar in front of a giant statue of Angus Young playing guitar (2000) [1335 x 2048)

    14 Comments
    2024/12/01
    07:59 UTC
    434

    US & South Korean troops fighting North Korean troops with clubs & axes during the notorious "axe murder incident," 1976. The episode was sparked over South Korean attempts to trim an obstructive tree in the Demilitarized Zone which the North Koreans believed was planted by Kim-Il-Sung. (2757x2159)

    39 Comments
    2024/12/01
    03:36 UTC
    220

    Pfc. Edward J. Foley of the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division, cleaning his M1903 Springfield sniper rifle before moving out to the front lines near Velletri in Italy. May 1944. [848x723]

    13 Comments
    2024/12/01
    01:17 UTC
    490

    Photograph from the 1993 Great Flood. (640x791)

    19 Comments
    2024/11/30
    19:00 UTC
    113

    Starboard view of the Soviet Navy's Fleet Project 159 patrol ship (Petya I-class light frigate) SKR-11, underway in the eastern Mediterranean - from the Tartus naval base, on December 23rd, 1985. [746 x 600]

    1 Comment
    2024/11/30
    08:50 UTC
    894

    Sophia Loren arrives to the Lido Film Festival in Venice, Italy, 26 of August to 7 of September 1958 [800x800]

    23 Comments
    2024/11/30
    06:49 UTC
    852

    Hanging out in Yakima Washington, sometime in the 1940s. [500x687]

    39 Comments
    2024/11/30
    04:20 UTC
    307

    Guards in the courtyard of the Tuileries - Paris, c. 1842-8 [3360 x 2638]

    5 Comments
    2024/11/30
    03:29 UTC
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    Marilyn Monroe in Banff during her visit in 1953 [500x417

    11 Comments
    2024/11/30
    03:28 UTC
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    Hairdressers' competition in Moscow in 1975, the inscription above the women reads: "We support and approve the new constitution of the USSR!". Photo by Igor Gavrilov [900x590]

    5 Comments
    2024/11/29
    22:13 UTC
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    Jim Jones receiving a Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian award at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, January 1977. (800x1195)

    39 Comments
    2024/11/29
    20:40 UTC
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