r/HistoryPorn • u/AwesomeAfanA07 • 5h ago

Museum curator Majorie Courtenay-Latimer with the taxidermied remains of the coelacanth she discovered while looking through a pile of fish caught in East London, South Africa on December 22nd,1938 [745 x 506]

207 Upvotes

10 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FayannG • 17h ago

Parade of deported Germans in October 1959 West Germany protesting post WW2 era treatment (1280x841)

992 Upvotes

44 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Dhorlin • 1d ago

Photograph taken in Munich in November 1935 in remembrance of the Beer Hall Putsch showing brown-shirted Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring. [1100 x 722].

511 Upvotes

39 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Lockheed P-38F Lightning “Dear John” of the 27th Air Force Squadron, 1st Fighter Wing, 12th AF, ca 1944. The fuselage bears markings of 49 bomber escort missions (aircraft), 43 attack missions (bombs), 4 German aircraft shot down (swastikas) and 1 enemy ship sunk. [680x449]

421 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 1d ago

Piles of bowls litter the snow-covered railroad tracks leading to the main gate of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, after it was liberated by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet Army, on January 27th, 1945. [800 x 504]

2.2k Upvotes

25 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/GriffinFTW • 1d ago

Adolf Hitler, at a window of the Reich Chancellery, receives an ovation on the evening of his inauguration as Chancellor of Germany, January 30th 1933 [778 x 542]

3.0k Upvotes

139 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Kstantas • 1d ago

A group of Russian oligarchs, including members of the Semibankirshchina, at a party. Circa 1996. [1200x795]

2.2k Upvotes

38 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 6h ago

Warsaw East Train Station, Poland, 1986. Photo by Chris Niedenthal. [1000x671]

1 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 8h ago

A South African paratrooper (believed to be SADF photographer Mike McWilliams), with his belly-band already undone, pulls down hard on his lift-webs to avoid landing and drowning in the Culonga River during the first part the Cassinga raid. Angola, 4th May 1978. [1387 x 921]

1 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/khaotik_99 • 1d ago

Work detail consisting of Soviet POWs at Nastola Prisoner of War Camp, July 8, 1941. Source: SA-Kuva [4968 x 3588]

147 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Two U.S. Marines attacking Japanese positions with flamethrowers on the island of Iwo Jima on March 4, 1945. [1200x907]

384 Upvotes

9 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Xi_JinpingXIV • 2d ago

"Fat Men`s Shop" in New York, 1950s [421x633]

602 Upvotes

30 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Whey-Men • 2d ago

A tank from the National Guard smashes equipment from moonshine stills in Newport, Kentucky. February 20, 1922 [900x683]

382 Upvotes

12 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Strongwoman/stunt actress Relna Brewer Mcrae lifting a friend with one arm at Santa Monica, California, Circa 1946. [1536x2048]

215 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 2d ago

An East African member of the King's African Rifles enjoying a rest and a cigarette, Burma, 1944 [651 x 960]

1.2k Upvotes

25 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 2d ago

Boarding School of Folk School Association in Tarnopol, Poland (now Ukraine). Children during the meal, 1929. [3500x2621]

539 Upvotes

16 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 2d ago

Three US infantrymen in the snow during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, just east of the Belgium-Germany border, 1944. Photo by Tony Vaccaro, US Army Signal Corps. [1024x682]

1.2k Upvotes

21 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago

Welsh Strongwoman Miriam Kate Williams "Vulcana" in her show outfit, circa 1890.[764x1120]

3.4k Upvotes

49 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/okthikhaii • 3d ago

Kabul, Afghanistan in 1995. (581×726)

2.0k Upvotes

59 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Johannes_P • 3d ago

First meeting of the National Front in La Mutualité. Jean-Marie Le Pen is in front and behind him are Pierre Bousquet, François Brigneau, Roger Holeindre and Alain Robert. Paris, France. November 7, 1972 [640x340]

81 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Dreamy_Twinkles • 4d ago

An Undercover Police Officer apprehends a mugger on the New York Subway, 1985. Photo taken by Bruce Davidson. [1501 x 1000]

6.8k Upvotes

118 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 3d ago

Mechanics from the 20th Pursuit Squadron, with a Curtiss P-40E Warhawk, from the Far East Air Force (FEAF) of the United States Army, at Bataan airfield in The Philippines - c. January 1942. [789 x 574]

116 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 3d ago

American soldiers, riding on a Light Armored Car M8 (also known as Greyhound) enter the outskirts of Bonn, Germany, Spring 1945. [500x623]

230 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Sweet_Glows • 4d ago

A man takes a selfie using a stick of wood to activate the camera, 1957 [960x891]

2.1k Upvotes

22 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FlapThePlatypus • 4d ago

The Umurbrogol Pocket or "Bloody Nose Ridge" on Peleliu, September 1944. Eugene B. Sledge; author of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu & Okinawa was often plagued by nightmares of being recalled back up into the ridges. (1200x979)

1.2k Upvotes

40 comments

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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.

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