/r/ImagesOfHistory
images from history
This is a subreddit that scrapes the top 15 posts from historyporn and reposts them. The purpose is for browsing at work. All glory to the hypnotoad folks bringing us /r/historyporn
/r/ImagesOfHistory
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Soviet linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer Yuri Knorozov, known for his pivotal role in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian civilization, 1971.
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2021/11/02
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Standing room only: RMS Queen Elizabeth ferries troops home following the Second World War, New York, NY, 1945 [1280x1596]
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2021/11/01
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Election of Charles Evans Hughes as President erroneously reported on the front page of the Portland [ME] Daily Press, Nov 8, 1916. Thirty-years before the Chicago Tribune's famous gaffe in the Truman-Dewey contest, the Daily Press even more confidently reported Hughes's victory over Woodrow Wilson.
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2021/10/26
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Computer Vision Annotation
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2021/08/09
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Buffalo Skulls, 1892 - The American Army, alongside military assisted hunters, rapidly and deliberately destroyed the Buffalo as a Scorched Earth tactic against the Native Americans, from 30-60mil animals to only 300 in 1884. LtCol. Dodge concisely put it as: “Every Buffalo Dead is an Indian Gone!”
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2021/07/31
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Portrait of an American soldier in 1918.
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2021/07/25
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Marcel Pliat, one of several French nationals who served in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I, and the only black man to serve in the Russian Imperial Air Force. Photograph taken in 1916.
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2021/07/20
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Elvis Presley eating at the cafeteria at Fort Charfee - 1958
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2021/07/15
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Stars and Stripes Article after Hitler's Suicide - 1945
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2021/07/15
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The man who refused to give a Nazi salute
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2021/06/26
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A woman IRA volunteer on active service in West Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle
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2021/06/18
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04 Children For Sale
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2021/06/16
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World Trade Center Before 9/11
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2021/06/15
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Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth with the Statue of Liberty in the background 1957 photo
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2021/06/15
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Today is the Anniversary
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2021/06/08
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The Bakhshali Manuscript: the oldest surviving Indic mathematical text and the oldest extant manuscript in the world to use zero and decimal place values. (currently kept in Bodleian Library, UK)
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2021/05/26
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9000 year old Neolithic Spirit Masks, the World’s Oldest Masks (More info in comments).
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2021/05/26
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PLEASE REPOST
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2021/05/20
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Women and girls in traditional costumes of Podillya, Ukraine
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2021/05/01
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"The blind girl" by Christer Strömholm, Hiroshima 1963
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2021/03/29
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Martin Luther King Jr. with his son, pulling up a burnt cross from the front lawn of his Atlanta home, April 1960
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2021/03/13
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I think these pictures (taken by my husband) putting the 1916 rising in Dublin into the modern context, show how we walk in the footsteps of the ghosts of the past. This shows a group of most likely Sherwood Forresters covering Merrion Square. Modern office workers rush past the site unaware of the
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2021/03/09
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How To Create an EdTech Solution that Drives ROI?
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2021/02/26
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Ronald Reagan, May 31, 1988 at Moscow University. Photo taken by Miroslav Zajíc
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2021/02/03
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Srpski tri prsta
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2021/01/24
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