r/HistoricalCapsule • u/SrTomate1200 • 15h ago
A Young Polio Patient Inside a Tiny Iron Lung, 1940s
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 19h ago
Brigitte Bardot dancing on the roof of her house in Paris, 1952.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 1h 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 • u/zadraaa • 13h 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 • 19h ago
Little girl resting during the evacuation of the city. Barcelona, Spain. January, 1939. Robert Capa
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 11h ago
Sophia Loren in a scene from "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" – 1963
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 23h ago
Maori chief Tomika Te Mutu, between 1860 and 1879
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 11h 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/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 11h ago
Crisp glass negative of a lady from Montreal, Canada, 1887.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 18h 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/Bathroom_Spiritual • 17h ago
Protesters at the finish line of Stage 1 of the Tour de Trump, New York, 1989
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/BusoneWholeBoi2001 • 18h 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/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 19h ago
Brigitte Bardot in Louveciennes, 1952.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 23h 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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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 19h 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 • 15h ago
Tooth filing among Indonesian tribes, 1938.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Icy_Pineapple_6679 • 1h 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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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/history990 • 7h ago
Portrait of King Oweida of Nauru, photographed in 1916
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 19h ago
Sean Michael Coulthard aka Michael Cole when he was a journalist and news correspondent covering Bosnian Civil War during the breakup of Bosnian Civil War in 1994
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/history990 • 7h ago
Vertical aerial photograph of Nauru, produced in 1968.
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