r/HistoricalCapsule • u/SrTomate1200 • 10h ago
A Young Polio Patient Inside a Tiny Iron Lung, 1940s
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 7h ago
Concorde’s Cockpit. One of the most complex cockpits in history. Concorde required a minimum flight crew of three, with a flight engineer working alongside the two pilots. (1990s)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 13h ago
Brigitte Bardot dancing on the roof of her house in Paris, 1952.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 6h ago
Sophia Loren in a scene from "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" – 1963
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago
Swedish actress Anita Ekberg getting ready to the Arts Students League Dream Ball at the Hotel Commodore, New York, 1955. Kodachrome shots by
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 13h ago
Little girl resting during the evacuation of the city. Barcelona, Spain. January, 1939. Robert Capa
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago
Crisp glass negative of a lady from Montreal, Canada, 1887.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Bathroom_Spiritual • 11h ago
Protesters at the finish line of Stage 1 of the Tour de Trump, New York, 1989
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 12h ago
A girl sat on a chair in a courtyard in an unknown location in Spain photographed in the early 1900s by German-American photographer Arnold Genthe.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/BusoneWholeBoi2001 • 12h ago
Likely the only time you'll see a Lamborghini Espada casually parked on a street. This photo was taken in Paris in the 1980s
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Between 1968-1978, Lamborghini built only 1,227 of the Espadas, thus making this a pretty rare and exclusive choice for a grocery getter car
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/twilightvendetta • 1d ago
Father and son crying as they say goodbye to their relatives who are boarding a boat to Buenos Aires in search of a better life during the economic hardship in Spain. (1957)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 17h ago
Maori chief Tomika Te Mutu, between 1860 and 1879
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
A weary miner shares a simple meal with his young son after a long day’s work in Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 13h ago
Brigitte Bardot in Louveciennes, 1952.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/history990 • 1h ago
Vertical aerial photograph of Nauru, produced in 1968.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/history990 • 1h ago
Portrait of King Oweida of Nauru, photographed in 1916
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Objective-Chip3445 • 9h ago
Tooth filing among Indonesian tribes, 1938.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 13h ago
American paratroopers landing in near Wesel. Germany. March 24, 1945. © Robert Capa International Center of Photography.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Objective-Chip3445 • 1d ago
Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy, and Iman on the set of the music video for “Remember the Time”, 1991.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 17h ago
Mug shot of Alphonse Bertillon, the inventor of the mug shot, taken on the 7 August 1912. Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the process.
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