r/RareHistoricalPhotos 8h ago

Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 12h ago

An elderly man who carried chairs on his back and rented them out for 10 cents to weary tourists, Constantinople, 1920.

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557 Upvotes

r/RareHistoricalPhotos 17h ago

The miner's wife, Mrs. Walter Rose, and her infant child. She lives in a very filthy three-room house. Despite being 10 months old, the infant has only ever eaten powdered milk and most likely has rickets. Welch, West Virginia, McDowell County, 1946

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 12h ago

Thats what all of soliders fight for

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 10h ago

Educating Papuans on condom use. 1990 in Papua New Guinea.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15h ago

Japan, 1946: Japanese women posing before heading to the beach. Indeed, since the late 1930s, two-piece suits have been around.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 11h ago

Kodachrome shots of corner stores during the 1950s

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

In 1991, Princess Diana famously shook hands with a man suffering from AIDS without wearing gloves, challenging stigma at the time

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 17h ago

In the late 1890s, an African American woman poses for a lone photograph.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1h ago

U.S.S. Vixen, Maxim machine gun and gunner Smith. The gun appears to be a Maxim-Nordenfelt 37-mm 1-pounder autocannon, known to the British as a "pom-pom", 1898

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 17h ago

An Inuit family in their igloo in 1904

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14h ago

In 1919, Dr. William Arnold established the Colorado Springs Hospital for Disabled Wild Birds.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 17h ago

The confrontation at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris

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On May 25, 1937, the World's Fair opened in Paris. Its central event, the "highlight", was the epic confrontation between two pavilions, the Soviet and the Nazi. They were located just opposite, facing each other. The Soviet pavilion was crowned by the sculpture "Worker and Collective Farmer" by sculptor Vera Mukhina (1889-1953), which was later moved to the Moscow Exhibition of Economic Achievements.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15h ago

Children in Rome in 1951 playing cowboys

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 4h ago

Russian trench during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 17h ago

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, August 8, 1944: A Japanese youngster who has been injured is lovingly held by an American soldier inside an aircraft while they wait for a trip to the closest field hospital.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 17h ago

Around 1930, Countess Alice de Janzé was pictured with her lion cub, Samson. The countess belonged to a group of affluent foreigners known as "The Happy Valley set," who established a colony in Kenya.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

One of only two known photos ever taken inside a live US Supreme Court session, secretly captured in 1937 by a woman who hid a small camera in her purse, with a hole cut for the lens

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Inside the former Cincinnati Public Library before its 1955 demolition, now replaced by an office and parking lot

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Daddy Long Legs, an electric-powered underwater railroad, 1897.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15h ago

Children having fun in the mud, Glasgow, 1960s

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 11h ago

Roy Bryant, right, and J.W. Milam during their time in the trial for the kidnapping and death of Emmett Till, 1955. They wer aquited and 1 year latter under double jeopardy protection admited to having do it with details.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 8h ago

Help me find this please

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I’m in search of a photo taken in the late 60s or ealry 70s. There is a scene where a trio of men exit a building (maybe a bar, i dunno) one of them is in a suit, the other one is in a full native american dress, and the third is in some sort of kinky biker fit. If anyone has a clue of what they just read, i would very much appreciate the help! Thank you


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Las Vegas strip pictured in 1955, long before its transformation into a bustling entertainment hub

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15h ago

View of driver and passenger racing Stutz car no. 2 in trial race during the 1913 Indianapolis 500 automobile races at the Indianapolis Speedway in Indiana. National Automotive History pgotograph.

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