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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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    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]

    8 Comments
    2024/12/01
    23:00 UTC

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

    14 Comments
    2024/12/01
    19:40 UTC

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

    11 Comments
    2024/12/01
    18:13 UTC

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

    10 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]

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    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]

    44 Comments
    2024/12/01
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    Angus Young playing guitar in front of a giant statue of Angus Young playing guitar (2000) [1335 x 2048)

    11 Comments
    2024/12/01
    07:59 UTC

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    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)

    38 Comments
    2024/12/01
    03:36 UTC

    194

    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

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    Photograph from the 1993 Great Flood. (640x791)

    18 Comments
    2024/11/30
    19:00 UTC

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    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

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    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

    842

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

    39 Comments
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    04:20 UTC

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    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
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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

    586

    Jim Jones receiving a Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian award at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, January 1977. (800x1195)

    36 Comments
    2024/11/29
    20:40 UTC

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    80th Infantry Division. Near Faulquemont, France. 23 November, 1944. Three American infantrymen eat K Rations on Thanksgiving day in a dugout somewhere in France. They will be relieved later and will have Thanksgiving dinner in the evening with their unit. [1720 x 1424]

    0 Comments
    2024/11/29
    04:07 UTC

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    Royal Navy Officer tries to fight a fish. The fish was stunned by depth charges, so it wasn't a fair fight. April 15, 1918. [1280 x 1010]

    2 Comments
    2024/11/29
    02:36 UTC

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    Superman in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. New York City, November 21, 1940 [600x673]

    32 Comments
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    Shot of a family of French Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) outside their home. Circa 1910-12. Not colorized, autochrome lumiere [2000x1480]

    28 Comments
    2024/11/29
    00:19 UTC

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    Soviet soldiers on board the liner "Joseph Stalin", who survived a mine explosion during the evacuation from the Hanko Peninsula, Finland. The photo was taken from the German ship that took them prisoner. 3 December 1941 [799×510]

    10 Comments
    2024/11/28
    20:51 UTC

    239

    Three American infantrymen eat K Rations on Thanksgiving day in a dugout near Fauquermont, France, 1944. They will be relieved later and will have Thanksgiving dinner in the evening with their unit. They are, L-R: Sgt. Albert E. Burns, PFC John K. Smith, and Pvt. Robert H. Seymour. [2048x1646]

    5 Comments
    2024/11/28
    20:44 UTC

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    Alleged alien abductees Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker in 1973. (1050x815)

    63 Comments
    2024/11/28
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    347

    Nativa Richard posing in fetish wear that she and her husband designed and made. The began a fetish company called Yva Richard in 1920, Paris. (414x627)

    1 Comment
    2024/11/28
    16:37 UTC

    193

    GIs of the 102nd Division take time for a quick Thanksgiving day dinner in a shelled house. Geilenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, November 23, 1944. [800x626]

    0 Comments
    2024/11/28
    13:17 UTC

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    Portrait of Big Foot, a Yankton Sioux warrior. United States, around 1870 [1550x2100]

    13 Comments
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    Two women sitting next storefront, in the city of Belgrade - Yugoslavia, during the late 1980s. [1170 x 762]

    48 Comments
    2024/11/28
    08:32 UTC

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    Rare photo of Khairallah Talfah, uncle & father-in-law of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, 1960's. Talfah did time in prison for working with the Nazi's & taught a young Saddam that "Persians, Jews, & flies" were gods 3 mistakes, a phrase Saddam displayed on his desk for much of his life (1004x737)

    68 Comments
    2024/11/28
    03:11 UTC

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    Stunt double Relna Brewer Mcrae and 1st all women gym owner in California Abbye Stockton, lift Milo globe 100 pounds dumbells at Santa Monica, California, ca. 1946 [1102x1194]

    6 Comments
    2024/11/27
    23:56 UTC

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