r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/werlach • 8h ago
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Melodic_Albatross449 • 12h ago
An elderly man who carried chairs on his back and rented them out for 10 cents to weary tourists, Constantinople, 1920.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Intelligent-City5718 • 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
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/d3annasnugglebug • 12h ago
Thats what all of soliders fight for
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Fast-Comment-3797 • 10h ago
Educating Papuans on condom use. 1990 in Papua New Guinea.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/CharmingPomelo6753 • 15h ago
Japan, 1946: Japanese women posing before heading to the beach. Indeed, since the late 1930s, two-piece suits have been around.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 11h ago
Kodachrome shots of corner stores during the 1950s
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Altruistic-Major8639 • 1d ago
In 1991, Princess Diana famously shook hands with a man suffering from AIDS without wearing gloves, challenging stigma at the time
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Icy_Account_6134 • 17h ago
In the late 1890s, an African American woman poses for a lone photograph.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Gronbjorn • 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
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Smooth_Toe_4091 • 17h ago
An Inuit family in their igloo in 1904
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/DevicePrestigious532 • 14h ago
In 1919, Dr. William Arnold established the Colorado Springs Hospital for Disabled Wild Birds.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Morozow • 17h ago
The confrontation at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris
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 • u/Scared-Button8194 • 15h ago
Children in Rome in 1951 playing cowboys
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/KaiserMeyers • 4h ago
Russian trench during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/One_Willingness_7502 • 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.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Background-Gas5224 • 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.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Equivalent-Being7505 • 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
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Equivalent-Being7505 • 1d ago
Inside the former Cincinnati Public Library before its 1955 demolition, now replaced by an office and parking lot
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/impulsive_expression • 1d ago
Daddy Long Legs, an electric-powered underwater railroad, 1897.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/InternetAvailable298 • 15h ago
Children having fun in the mud, Glasgow, 1960s
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 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.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/chwables • 8h ago
Help me find this please
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 • u/Altruistic-Major8639 • 1d ago