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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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    A Chechen woman holding a rifle, January 1995 [2048x1365][x-post /r/ThirtyYearsAgo]

    1 Comment
    2025/01/01
    10:53 UTC
    65

    U.S. President John F. Kennedy with Somali Prime Minister Abdirashid Ali Sharmake in Washington D.C, Both men would be assassinated in the 1960s, November 27 1962 [1000X790]

    0 Comments
    2025/01/01
    07:21 UTC
    68

    Anwar Saadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin; Camp David, 1979 [2000x1100]

    6 Comments
    2025/01/01
    01:26 UTC
    17

    Close-up, in-flight view of a Douglas SBD Dauntless piloted by American Lt. George Glacken (left) with his gunner Leo Boulanger, near New Guinea, early April, 1944 [1600x1105] (Original color photo)

    1 Comment
    2024/12/31
    23:35 UTC
    23

    Fireworks over the Sumida River. Tokyo, Japan, 1935 [3500x4438]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/31
    22:49 UTC
    51

    Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress with its bomb bay doors open over Berlin. This aircraft belongs to the 452nd Bomb Group. (U.S. Air Force photo, ca 1944) [1350x914]

    3 Comments
    2024/12/31
    19:07 UTC
    253

    Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux), in the center, in discussion with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C and Unix), on the right. 1997 [469x310]

    6 Comments
    2024/12/31
    18:56 UTC
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    The steamship SS Warrimoo is famous for the fact that Captain John Phillips crossed the intersection of the International Date Line and the equator at exactly the turn of 1899 and 1900. In this way, the steak was in different hemispheres in different years at the same moment. [620x445]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/31
    18:06 UTC
    31

    Wounded American sergeant feeds his wounded friend on Christmas Day 1944, San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines (1200x947)

    1 Comment
    2024/12/31
    17:54 UTC
    8

    US M36 Tank Destroyer & Crew in Fosse (Trois-Ponts area) Belgium - Late December 1944 / Early January 1945 [1440x1378]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/31
    13:06 UTC
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    Young Chechen expressing his opinion about the Russian army. Grozny, 1995 [1200x787]

    7 Comments
    2024/12/31
    04:54 UTC
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    Charles I, Emperor of Austria, is crowned Charles IV, the last king of Hungary, Dec 30 1916 [1200 x 786]

    2 Comments
    2024/12/31
    02:46 UTC
    4,565

    British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12) en route to the Falkland Islands, 17 April 1982 [4015x2655]

    155 Comments
    2024/12/30
    22:16 UTC
    1,124

    Panama Canal, 1922, (1441x1086)

    17 Comments
    2024/12/30
    21:34 UTC
    450

    The basement of the Moika Palace in St. Petersburg, the room where Grigori Rasputin was murdered, 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916 (Picture taken ca. 1917) [720 × 538]

    21 Comments
    2024/12/30
    19:49 UTC
    743

    American pilot Andrew Turner in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang fighter in Italy 8/8/1944. he flew 69 combat missions and was killed in a air crash in England in 1947 1200x898

    11 Comments
    2024/12/30
    17:14 UTC
    762

    US Army documentation team examines the remains of a MiG-29 shot down by either an American F-15C or a Dutch F-16AM near the town of Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27th March 1999 [1227x899]

    20 Comments
    2024/12/30
    15:42 UTC
    268

    US Sherman Tanks tucked into the trees in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, Late December 1944 [144x1250]

    2 Comments
    2024/12/30
    15:31 UTC
    125

    LT. ahmed helmi -(KIA)- commander of the 5th egyptian artillery battery stationed at the suez canal near the area of touson which saw action with other commonwealth forces aganist ottoman forces trying to cross the canal on the third of February 1915 successfully repulsing the attack (632 x 960)

    1 Comment
    2024/12/30
    11:34 UTC
    961

    Workers heading out through gates of a shipyard for lunchtime break – behind them a ship under construction surrounded by timber scaffolding and cranes - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, c. 1944. [775 x 800]

    14 Comments
    2024/12/30
    08:33 UTC
    742

    Tlingit woman with nose ring and bear claw crown. Tlingit are Indigenous peoples of the Southeast Alaska, i.e. Alexander Archipelago and surrounding areas on the continent. 1906 [420x476]

    8 Comments
    2024/12/30
    07:11 UTC
    1,712

    Once enemies on opposite fronts, Çanakkale veteran Adil Şahin and Australian veteran Len Hall stand together in Gallipoli years after the war ended. (1990 📸 Vedat Açıkalın, When Old Foes Meet) [904x1073]

    45 Comments
    2024/12/30
    01:13 UTC
    276

    Men of the U.S. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment dropped from C-47 Skytrains behind a smokescreen into Nazdab, New Guinea, on September 5, 1943. [800x573]

    2 Comments
    2024/12/30
    01:12 UTC
    123

    2 RSO/O1 towing 105MM Howitzers through the capital of Albania shortly after taking the city from the Italians. September, 1943 [Colorized] [1410x752]

    6 Comments
    2024/12/29
    23:41 UTC
    1,517

    Navy crew pushing Huey helicopters off of aircraft carriers to make room for landing planes with people still evacuating. 1975 [Colorized] [2160x1464]

    52 Comments
    2024/12/29
    23:33 UTC
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    Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder being tried in the Old Palace of Justice for kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Amsterdam, Netherlands. January 22, 1987 [800x533]

    9 Comments
    2024/12/29
    18:56 UTC
    280

    Tallinn, Estonia after mass Soviet bombing which killed hundreds of civilians, 1944 [900x585]

    38 Comments
    2024/12/29
    15:28 UTC
    68

    A guest at a New Years dance, wearing a bridal pair costume / Photo: Topical Press Agency / England - London, 31 December 1924 [1800x1200]

    0 Comments
    2024/12/29
    13:55 UTC
    1,189

    A remarkable three-person motorcycle was handmade in Poland in 1949 by Stanisław Skura, using salvaged parts from a crashed aircraft, a destroyed tank, and a damaged military truck. The vehicle's engine was crafted from two cylinders cut off from a Me-109 aircraft. (1949) [926x587]

    20 Comments
    2024/12/29
    08:39 UTC
    2,608

    British soldiers enjoying some tea outside of their Mk VI. December 31st, 1940. North Africa [Colorized] [1600x1388]

    62 Comments
    2024/12/29
    07:33 UTC
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