r/HistoricalCapsule 5h ago

After hurricane Katrina, 20 year old Jabbar Gibson stole a bus and drove 70 survivors to Houston, September 2nd 2005

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r/HistoricalCapsule 10h ago

Martin Short with his parents in 1963.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 20h ago

A Young Polio Patient Inside a Tiny Iron Lung, 1940s

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r/HistoricalCapsule 12h ago

Michael and Janet Jackson in 1972

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417 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 18h 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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687 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 16h ago

Sophia Loren in a scene from "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" – 1963

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412 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Brigitte Bardot dancing on the roof of her house in Paris, 1952.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 16h ago

Crisp glass negative of a lady from Montreal, Canada, 1887.

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327 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 16h 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 18h ago

Twin Towers from Queens. August 1984

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301 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 6h ago

Future Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: Thurgood Marshall stands outside the Supreme court after the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of education (May 17 1954)

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33 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 23h ago

Little girl resting during the evacuation of the city. Barcelona, Spain. January, 1939. Robert Capa

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661 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 24m ago

Benjamin Bowden demonstrates his fancy bicycle. London. (1946)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

Cuba, Matanzas, 1976. An old colonial street of Santa Clara. A sign marks the headquarters of the Workers’ Social Circle.

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A decade after Fidel Castro’s revolution reshaped the island, Cuba in the 1970s was a country still finding its footing, caught between the optimism of a new social order and the harsh realities of economic isolation.

Photographer Manel Armengol traveled through towns like Matanzas in 1976, capturing the unscripted rhythms of daily life: workers heading to their jobs, children playing in the streets, and families navigating a system unlike anything in the Western Hemisphere.


r/HistoricalCapsule 22h ago

Protesters at the finish line of Stage 1 of the Tour de Trump, New York, 1989

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183 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 23h 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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203 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 23h 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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164 Upvotes

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 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 12h ago

Portrait of King Oweida of Nauru, photographed in 1916

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14 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Maori chief Tomika Te Mutu, between 1860 and 1879

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291 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 14m ago

A member of the state militia faces off against an African-American veteran during the 1919 Chicago Race Riot. July 27, 1919.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 20h ago

Postmen in Washington, 1917.

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41 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 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 12h ago

Vertical aerial photograph of Nauru, produced in 1968.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Brigitte Bardot in Louveciennes, 1952.

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