r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 4h ago
r/oldphotos • u/OldPhotos-Mods • Mar 11 '24
Mod Announcement Update on /r/oldphotos rules - March 2024
We are making some updates and rule changes due to the changing and growing nature of the subreddit, and due to amount of reports and modmail that come through on certain issues. The rules are always subject to change so always read them before posting.
- We are going to start enforcing the rule for including the year in the description more heavily. Some photos are obviously 'old' (like something from the 1800's), or educational if OP is looking for help dating a photo, those will be ignored from the rules more. But if any seem skeptical to the mod team, and appear too modern with no date attached, don't be offended if the post gets removed.
- New rule: We will remove photos that include modern photography in them. Things like comparing yourself to how you look compared to your grandparents, or before/after of old architecture will now be removed. There are other subreddits better suited for those, like /r/genealogy /r/ancestry /r/ancestrydna , and /r/oldphotosinreallife . We want to keep this subreddit simple and to the point, a feed of old photographs, nothing more.
- Pending rule change: There is gray area on dates of photos that are allowed. Right now the 1980's are allowed but not really recommended. Anything newer than 1990 will be removed. Depending on how the subreddit grows, we may move the date farther back to the 60's and 70's, and no longer allow 1980s+, so be aware.
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 12h ago
Great grandma Isabelle Anastasia McCombe (1920-2019) in 1941, Scottish Highlands
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 4h ago
My Grand Aunt Norah Beatrice Gibson (1917–2004) on her wedding day (June 6, 1939)
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 3h ago
Found a neat picture from Scotland of my 5th great grandpa cross-armed in all black (born in the mid-late 1700s), his wife seated beside him, and their daughter, my 4th great grandmother in the white dress. [Taken in 1886, Glamis, Angus, Scotland]
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 20h ago
Countess Anastasia Kadashia Svetlana von Scheidt (my GGG grandma) 1894–2009 [April 5, 1933]
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 4h ago
Mid 1950s, My Opa, Anthony ‘John’ Johannes Harman, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
r/oldphotos • u/Still_Bike_9044 • 1d ago
My grandparents’ wedding day. Over 50 years together — and still counting
r/oldphotos • u/PizzAveMaria • 1d ago
They'll be married 62 years years this July. My Grandparents wedding 1963
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 12h ago
Aunty Donna Mae Storm (1948-1980) in the middle, attending school near Toronto, Canada. She died of MS at 32.
r/oldphotos • u/Hour-Sweet2445 • 19h ago
Mary Donald, my 4th great grandmother. Born in 1812 in Scotland, photo taken roughly in 1890.
r/oldphotos • u/calibersmama • 17h ago
old soldier portrait I inherited after my Grandma Gustafson passed away
r/oldphotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Very early kodachrome shot of a couple in Miami beach, 1939.
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 13h ago
My Polish GG grandfather, Wasily Griskevich (1888-1962), Galicia, Austro-Hungary [before 1908], prior to his arrival in Canada
r/oldphotos • u/cincycat42 • 23h ago
My great great grandparents and aunts. The last is my great grandma. I lost my Mamaw recently who I was very close to and it’s been so nice looking back through pictures and all the history
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 13h ago
GGG grandparents, Patrick McCombe (1866-1944) and Isabella Crosby (1869-1957) from Ernagh, Ireland [c. 1906]
r/oldphotos • u/Glad_Independent_890 • 20h ago
My grand uncle Rorich-Reinhard von Scheidt in northern Romania shortly after World War I [January 11, 1918]
r/oldphotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Father poses produly with his son, sadly the glass negative is to destroyed to see the face of the boy clearly. looks like a humidity damage. 1890s.
r/oldphotos • u/vaderetroearthgirl • 1d ago