/r/HistoryPorn
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.
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.
- If you cannot find the date after a concerted effort, then a rough estimate or simply saying unknown date will suffice.
- Videos, collections, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
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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John F Kennedy and a young Robert F Kennedy Jr with a salmander in a bowl, Washington DC, 11 Marsch 1961 [3,000×2,352]
16:08 UTC
Funeral procession of SS-Brigadeführer. F. Kutshera, killed by the Polish resistance (Home Army) on February 1, 1944 Warsaw [700x398]
16:04 UTC
War of 1895. Wad-Rass Battalion of the Spanish Army demonstrating the square formation. Circa 1895-1896. [1073x783]
15:28 UTC
Spanish-American War, 1898. An American Buffalo Soldier having a cordial chat with a Cuban Liberation Army fighter. [700x537]
14:47 UTC
Alouite woman and child gleaning, 1892 [1356x1476]
14:31 UTC
Classroom in a German East African school, March 1914, modern day Vugha, Tanzania [774 × 577]
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing tennis. Sochi, March 1992 [548x800]
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Red Army colonel Leonid Brezhnev, Eastern Front, 1943 [439x750]
22:55 UTC
Britain's Earl Mountbatten salutes the farewell parade of the last battalions of the British Army in Delhi Dec. 19, 1947 [2500x1960]
19:08 UTC
Early color photograph created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii of three young Russian peasant women in front of a traditional wooden house in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the small town of Kirillov, 1909 [3,320 × 2,873]
18:44 UTC
S.S. Pacific anchored near Fort Tongass in Alaska in 1868. This sidewheel steamer sank in 1875 with estimated 275 passengers and crew, and cargo of gold worth millions today. [1000x750]
15:54 UTC
First Image Captured on the Surface of Another Planet: Standing on Venus with Venera 9, 1975 [1331x912]
On October 22, 1975, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 became the first mission to transmit images from the surface of another planet. The lander captured a 180-degree panorama of Venus’s rocky terrain, which was later processed to create this reconstructed view. To achieve a more natural perspective the original images were rectified and adjusted for varying distances from the lander.
Less than a year later, on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 became the first U.S. lander to capture an image from the surface of another planet, transmitting a view of the Martian landscape.
Created by: Ted Stryk Source: Bruce Murray Space Image Library
15:44 UTC
P-39F-1-BE in flight, 1942. [1750x1254]
00:49 UTC
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on, July 2, 1964. LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton.[449X301]
10:56 UTC
11-12-year-old Isaac Allal, the only survivor of the plane crash in Hurum, Norway. On 20 November 1949, a Douglas DC-3 carrying 28 Jewish children from Tunisia to Israel crashed into a mountainside during fog.[220x330]
10:40 UTC
Bullet holes in the window of the Nigerian presidential Mercedes at the scene of dictator Murtala Muhammed's assassination on February 13, 1976. His killing led the Nigerian government to suspect CIA involvement, sparking student-led anti-American protests and fallout of diplomatic ties. [400x600]
02:47 UTC
Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh, PA in 1908 [2400x1912]
Photo from the Library of Congress. View is facing west down Liberty Avenue towards Seventh Avenue.
01:49 UTC
Just two barefoot girls (Lilla and Ruby Holliefield) holding a dead rattlesnake in Uvalde, Texas, 1910. [1166x1482]
21:19 UTC
A 'Harlem Hellfighter' arrives home to a hero’s welcome, wearing the Cordon of the Croix de Guerre awarded by France, New York, 1919 [3276x3252]
The 369th Infantry Regiment was the first African American regiment to serve in the First World War. In the US they were known as The Black Rattlers, while the French called them The Hellfighters. The Germans, fearing their fierce combat skills, referred to them as the Bloodthirsty Black Men (Blutlustige Schwarzmänner).
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to identify the soldier in this image. If anyone has information about his name, I would greatly appreciate it.
The photo is from an 1969 issue of the New York Magazine.
19:22 UTC
“Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics”-General Omar Bradley. Omaha beach, June 9th, 1944 [1024x713]
16:32 UTC
Defeated, two German women in the ruins of Cologne, March 1945, ph by Lee Miller [1280x1334]
14:18 UTC
Paratroopers of the 503rd US Parachute Infantry Regiment prepare to board a C-47 Skytrain of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, 1944. Another C-47 (serial number 41-7767) is visible in the background. [2034x2048]
13:43 UTC
Group photo of officers from the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, a mixed Chinese-Korean force which fought a guerilla war against Imperial Japan in Manchuria between 1936 and 1945. Future leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung is second to the right in the first row as a captain. [1024x700]
21:26 UTC
An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment about to go on patrol on the Arakan front in Burma, 1944 (800 × 550)
12:39 UTC
Orthodox Serbs being converted to Roman Catholicism by the Ustaša in the Independent State of Croatia. Later, they were killed in the Glina massacre led by Vjekoslav Luburić (1941)(1272x918)
10:50 UTC
Rudolf Hoss, commander of Auschwitz, and one of the architects of the 'final solution' being led to his execution on the 16th of April 1947. [902x539]
05:01 UTC
Newly discovered photograph of Chopin taken in 1849 [1200x800]
03:26 UTC
American Paratroopers riding in a captured Volkswagen Type 82 Kübelwagen through the streets of Carentan, Normandy. June 1944 [2339x1668]
01:42 UTC
An M-29 "Weasel" from Charlie Co, 1944. The "Weasel" American tracked all-terrain transport vehicle had a capacity for 4 men and was designed by Studebaker, it is particularly suitable for difficult terrain: mud, snow, sand, marshes. [2048x2048]
00:56 UTC
German soldiers greeted by Latvian women in Riga during the German occupation of Latvia (July 1941)(800x540)
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