/r/ArchivePorn
Documents of historical note.
About
Images of historical documents 20 years or older. Letters, telegrams, ID, laws.
Submission Rules
- Unaltered photographs or scans of historic documents.
- Include the name of the document and some possibly context about the image in the title.
- Include the resolution in [brackets] in the title. Other allowed tags are [Album].
- Use the [OC] tag for your original content.
- Videos, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
- Host your original content [OC] images in Imgur or Minus.
- Using original sources for content is allowed.
- Do not submit a shortened link using a URL shortener like tinyurl.
- If text is illegible please post a transcript in the comments.
- No racism or personal attacks. Basically follow the reddiquette.
Examples of Correct Submissions:
- U.S. Declaration of Independence [800x600]
- Scan of Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Adams [OC] [1024x768]
Historic Documents
- Documents must be at least 20 years old
- Documents must have some greater impact on history
- Do not submit personal documents
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/r/ArchivePorn
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Guest ticket to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, 1916. [4213x2287]
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2024/10/03
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Ulisse Aldrovandi's illustration of a ''Hippopotamus and a Nile Crocodile'',1646.[2785x4336]
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2024/09/13
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[Album] We keep family genealogy records dating back to the 1400s in an old family estate. This is the oldest book in our archives where descendants would be inscribed in the family Solar (group of co-owners, in a sense) every few years and so on, a practice still going on nowadays. [513x911]
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2024/09/10
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[Album] This incredible copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln will be on display at the Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair!
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2024/08/25
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[Album] The incredible items listed below will be on display at the Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair, coming to NYC on September 27th-29th at City College!
Highlights include:
★ An original printing of the Declaration of Independence from July 1776
★ The first public printing of the Constitution
★ The Bill of Rights printing as sent out to the states for ratification
★ George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation
★ Frederick Douglass' July 5th speech
★ Reports on the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments document
★ The Emancipation Proclamation SIGNED by Abraham Lincoln
★ A letter from Albert Einstein alerting President Franklin Roosevelt to the possibility of atomic bombs
★ Martin Luther King's speech at the March on Washington
★ Jesse Owens' 1936 Olympic gold medal
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2024/08/18
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Watercolor/ink painting of dragons, Italian, c. 1560-1600. [2144x3000]
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2024/07/25
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A sketch by Thomas Nickerson, a crew member of Essex, depicting a sperm whale attacking the ship which caused it to sink on November 20, 1820. The story inspired Herman Melville to write his famous 1851 novel Moby-Dick [700 × 539]
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2024/07/24
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Dinner menu of the steamboat Ruth while traveling on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, March 24, 1866. [6320x5060]
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2024/07/05
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Military medical leave decision (1918) [1200x547]
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2024/06/28
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Calculation of SS profit per concentration camp prisoner, undated WWII, museum collection [1080x1080]
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2024/06/18
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Grand Union Raffle ticket from the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, May 1864. [4436x2064]
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2024/05/22
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Ticket to the Magic Whirlpool attraction at the St. Louis World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1904. [2888x1556]
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2024/05/17
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Food menu from a steamboat named Missouri, American, January 10, 1847. [3972x9360]
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2024/05/13
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Receipt issued to Gabriel Paul for goods delivered to Auguste Chouteau and Benjamin Stephenson during their treaty negotiations with the Kickapoo Indians in June and July, 1819. [2272x1887]
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2024/05/10
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Menu for Queen Victoria's dinner at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 29, 1897. [1144x1822]
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2024/05/08
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Cotton handkerchief featuring a dinner menu for Maxim’s restaurant in Paris, France, May 1899. [2423x2349]
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2024/05/05
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Original food menu (left) and later partial English translation (from a 1929 exhibit, right) created by an eatery during the Siege of Paris, c. 1870-1871. [5301x4056]
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2024/05/02
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Original food menu (left) and later partial English translation (from a 1929 exhibit, right) created by an eatery during the Siege of Paris, c. 1870-1871. [5301x4056]
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2024/05/02
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“Illustrated menu card for the farewell dinner to Professor Johnson Symington. Coloured woodcut by George Algernon Fothergill, 1893.” [2077x3363]
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2024/04/26
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03/05/1919 - An exemple of the Pontanezen duckboard, the offial newspaper of the Pontanezen american military camp at the city of Brest in France [3096x4128]
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2024/04/19
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