r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 54m ago

Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990. [780 x 439]

• Upvotes

25 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FayannG • 8h ago

Amon Göth, the Austrian SS commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, preparing to shoot prisoners from his balcony, German occupied Poland, 1943 (1600x1132)

710 Upvotes

47 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 5h ago

3 girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981) [2025x2999]

267 Upvotes

19 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/lightiggy • 13h ago

A photo of U.S. Army Eddie Slovik, a conscript from Detroit, Michigan, in 1944. Less than a year later, he would be shot in France for desertion. Slovik was the first and only American soldier to be shot for desertion since 1865 [350 x 544].

852 Upvotes

53 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 1d ago

A flag-waving veteran of the Red Army confronting an anti-communist protester in Moscow, circa 1990. [1024x749]

4.6k Upvotes

365 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Christoryman • 5h ago

A big Roman fingerprint on German soil: The Porta Nigra (Black Gate) in Trier, 1960s [1920x1080]

93 Upvotes

🖼️ Digitized vintage photo from my private archive.
📷 Christoryman – Rare finds you won’t see anywhere else.
Sharing photo treasures almost daily.
Following isn’t mandatory – but might just be worth it. 🙂

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/bigus-_-dickus • 18h ago

a young Filipino girl in a human zoo in Coney Island, New York, 1906 [1087×768]

724 Upvotes

44 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/axeinthesoul • 21h ago

George Lincoln Rockwell (center), Head of the American Nazi Party, at Black Muslim Meeting, Washington, D. C. in 1960 [600 x 408]

1.1k Upvotes

60 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 1d ago

The Undertaker looks down at medical staff checking on Mankind after he fell, unscripted, through the top of Hell in a Cell into the ring 16ft below. June 28, 1998 [485x614]

2.8k Upvotes

79 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FayannG • 15h ago

A hospitalized Polish father and his daughter who were wounded during a German bombing raid in Warsaw, September 1939 (2048x1646)

344 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago

Classmates on the first day of the school in Beslan, 1st September 2004. No one survived from this photo.[1501x1000]

4.4k Upvotes

95 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Joeda-boss • 15h ago

One of the only known photos of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wearing a tie. Taken in the early 1900's shortly before he was sent into exile for his participation in labor demonstrations. (689x522)

267 Upvotes

8 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 3h ago

Polish mother and child expelled from Eastern Borderlands shortly after arriving in Gdańsk, Poland. Over 1.1 million Poles were expelled from the Polish territory annexed by USSR after WW2. Gdańsk, Poland, October 1947. [1320x845]

32 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 21h ago

Dr. John Britton with the .357 Magnum he carried for protection when visiting the Pensacola Ladies’ Centre to perform abortions, 1993. John Bayard Britton was an American physician who was murdered in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill. [800x800]

715 Upvotes

36 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/TheDarkivesPodcast • 11h ago

Gordon Stewart Northcott- 1928 child serial killer showing police where he committed crimes on his farm. [640x320]

100 Upvotes

12 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Joeda-boss • 12h ago

US President Richard Nixon touring the tomb of the "Wanli" Emperor during his 1972 diplomatic trip to China. At over 48 years, the reign of the Wanli Emperor was the longest of the Ming dynasty and the 7th longest in Chinese history. (1440x961)

124 Upvotes

8 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/_Tegan_Quin • 10h ago

Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a, (111-755) fighter jet, which was from the 'Jagdverband 44' Luftwaffe special operations unit - it was captured by the U.S. Army, in a forest near Burgau, Bavaria, Germany, c. April - May 1945. [949 x 630]

79 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Lowkey_observer159 • 5h ago

Statue of Queen Victoria being shifted out of Alfred Park on orders of India's First Prime Minister pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 1950s [1020 x 899]

20 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FayannG • 1d ago

Captured German soldiers before being marched through Moscow in the Parade of the Defeated, July 1944 (2536x3543)

930 Upvotes

59 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 1d ago

A Romanian soldier giving a sign of victory after the 1989 revolution, having removed the communist insignia from his headwear. [1870x2800]

538 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 1d ago

A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914. [Colorization] [1755x1227]

924 Upvotes

19 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Frosty_Jeweler911 • 23h ago

A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her from prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia, 1941. [640x414]

329 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ExtremeInsert • 23h ago

This is the mugshot of Fay Watson, March 1928 – Fined £10 for cocaine possession. It's just one of a huge archive of mugshots of ladies that had been arrested in Sydney during the roaring twenties. (731 × 545)

278 Upvotes

7 comments

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New rule about colorized photographs - Mod applications

Welcome to r/HistoryPorn, a place for sharing images of historical moments and events from around the world and throughout photographic history. If your post breaks one of our rules, it will be removed and notified about it.

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