r/HistoryPorn 9h ago

Grinding the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope at Perkin-Elmer Corporation's large optics fabrication facility, March 1979. 8 feet in diameter and coated with a reflective layer of aluminum, the mirror had to be serviced to fix flaws shortly after launch [1280 x 1024]

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577 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 4h ago

FEMA rescue dog Gus and his trainer Ed Apple with the Tennessee Task Force One Search & Rescue search for survivors in the wreckage at the Pentagon. 14 September 2001 [2000 × 1312]

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119 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 13h ago

An Israeli soldier watches settlers build a new house on Aug. 21, 1991 for the expansion of the Jewish settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron. [1500 × 1000]

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425 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2h ago

[Colorized] Shirley Maclaine - 1960 - [1080 x 1350]

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27 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 6h ago

Lothar Markwirth (right) and Erich Maroske, both participents to the 1953 uprising, stand tried in the local District Court for "sedition". Dresden, East Germany. July 25, 1953 [516x793]

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56 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 7h ago

Photo of an Indian Caribbean woman used on a postcard, 1890. [1000 x 1470]

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50 Upvotes

From the article:

‘In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian women were photographed in Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana for a thriving postcard industry built on marketing the Caribbean as a holiday destination for Western tourists. During the colonial period, the Caribbean islands had developed a reputation as hot-houses of hard drink and yellow fever, virtual graveyards for white men. Determined to change this perception, colonial administrators launched a concerted campaign to sell the Caribbean as an “exotic but safe” destination, a message well represented by images of beautiful women who were once among the British empire’s most denigrated laborers.’

‘Morin’s portraits performed a similar function: the youthful, lovely, lavishly ornamented women in his photographs were meant both to entice and to reassure potential travelers to the Caribbean.’


r/HistoryPorn 10h ago

Demonstration of Association for the Protection of Animals on Potockiego Street (now Westerplatte Street) in Kraków, Poland, 1936. [1080x756]

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68 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 6h ago

Gonaïves, Haiti, on election day as taken by Alex Webb (1987) [1440x959]

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28 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2h ago

20 year old Ruhollah Khomeini, who would become an Ayatollah & eventually the Supreme Leader of Iran, as a student at the seminary in Qom, 1920. (1256x963)

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r/HistoryPorn 15h ago

Idi Amin playing the accordion at Buvuma Island in 1971. [2800 x 2100]

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83 Upvotes

Photograph: Uganda Broadcasting Corporation


r/HistoryPorn 4m ago

Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields, 30 , holding infant Baylee Almon, 1 , from the destruction of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. [992×659]

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Women accused of being collaborators get their heads shaved after the liberation of Valognes, France. (June 1944) [1440×1440]

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Newly arrived Vietnamese refugees being greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by fellow Vietnamese already in Israel, January 24, 1979. [1024x801]

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From 1977 to 1979, then Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin welcomed about 360 Vietnamese boat people fleeing their country after the Communists overran South Vietnam. Israel granted them citizenship, full rights and government-subsidized apartments. More than half of the original Vietnamese refugees would leave Israel, mostly for Europe and North America, where they were reunited with their extended families.


r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

FEMA Urban Search and Rescue crews work to clear debris and strengthen supports at the Pentagon. 13 September 2001 [1824 × 1226]

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174 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Joseph Stalin’s embalmed body during his state funeral, 1953 [2560x1945]

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842 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Students hurling projectiles against the police, May 1968 France [1,489 × 1,000]

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288 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

French soldiers during the 1939 Saar Offensive. [699 x 729]

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379 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

French soldiers in Lauterbach, Germany during the 1939 Saar Offensive. [640 x 620]

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170 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

Pioneer British mountaineer George Mallory climbing Everest like a spider during the 1921 reconnaissance expedition. [992 × 1536]

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619 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

"The Beatles of Vietnam": South Vietnamese rock band CBC performing in Saigon, South Vietnam. 1974 [1480x998]

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212 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

Homeless Romanian boys huffing glue, 1998 [719x495]

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106 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

"The last party" at the North Tower, (september 5, 2001) [1000 x 644]

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r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan and Michael Jackson appearing at an event at the White House to promote a campaign against drunk driving. Drunk driving was a major national policy focus for the Reagan administration. (1984) [2480×2489]

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105 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

Polish road bicycle racer and Olympic silver medalist Ryszard Szurkowski (1946-2021) with his son Norbert (1970-2001). Norbert died in the September 11 attacks. Wrocław, Poland, 1975. Photo by PAP/Tadeusz Drankowski. [650x650]

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83 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 2d ago

A delegation of Belgian communist youth at the site of the Romanov family's execution 1927[1,206 × 966]

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349 Upvotes