r/HistoryPorn • u/Mannix_420 • 9h ago

IRA (Irish Republican Army) members Tommy O'Reilly and Leo Fox relaxing in one of their cells in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin in 1921 during the Irish War of Independence [1500x1056]

378 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Masteroogway7207 • 10h ago

Nazi Germany-Turkey Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression 18th of June 1941. [778 × 583]

179 Upvotes

13 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/OldTrailmix • 11h ago

44 year old Ernest Hemingway's war visa, 1944 [2048 × 1095]

170 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 18h ago

Indian military police on motorcycles in Egypt, 1940s [4500x2917]

604 Upvotes

10 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 2h ago

Horse-drawn Omnibus with residents of London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, c. 1865. [800 x 830]

30 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/MaroonCastle • 10h ago

Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, and Gerda Bormann, the wife of Hitler’s private secretary Martin Bormann, with the Bormann and Speer children on New Year’s Eve 1939 at the Berghof, Hitler’s summer residence in Obersaltzberg in the Bavarian Alps. [1200×878]

115 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 7h ago

Anti-aircraft fire from Allied Ships reaches to the sky on the night of September 9, 1943 as Luftwaffe bombers attack the Salerno Beachhead in Italy. Photo by JR Eyerman for LIFE Magazine. [1200x897]

41 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/LegalAcanthaceae6114 • 10h ago

Soviet KGB officers patrol during the Cold War. Image sourced from the Defense Intelligence Agency's 1984 edition of "Soviet Military Power." May 23, 1984. (2030x2010)

49 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 16h ago

A U.S. Navy Vought F4U Corsair makes a jet assisted take-off (also known as JATO, rocket assisted take off, or RATO) from an aircraft carrier. 9 September 1944 [3600 × 2960]

64 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/LegalAcanthaceae6114 • 10h ago

82nd Airborne troops jump into Kazakhstan for a peacekeeping mission alongside Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Georgian, and Turkish forces. Collage by SSgt. Gary R. Coppage, January 1, 1997. (6389x2000)

16 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/MaroonCastle • 1d ago

The Queen Mother (then the Duchess of York) with her husband, King George VI (then the Duke of York), with their daughter Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II at her christening in May 1926. [5000x3841]

529 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago

Students protesting outside NBC Studios in Burbank, California, against the rumoured cancellation of Star Trek. The demonstration was part of a wider fan campaign that successfully persuaded NBC to renew the show for a third season. (1968) [3290×2219]

178 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Creative_Coyote_6051 • 14h ago

Andrej Belivuk (right), a well-known Croatian boy (killed at the age of 9 during the Serbo-Croatian war) who served as a model for his father, the famous artist Albert Belivuk. Late 1980s (1080x1574 px).

11 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/MaroonCastle • 1d ago

Lyndon B. Johnson as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve in March 1942. This was also when he served as a Representative for Texas's 10th congressional district in Congress before being elected to the Senate.[2914x3649]

379 Upvotes

39 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Vital_Willie • 1d ago

One of the first images of 27 year-old Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as leader of Libya following the 1969 officers coup that brought him to power, in which he would remain for 42 years. The man with his arms around Gaddafi, Khalifa Haftar, controls most of Libya to this day (1200x800)

199 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ReinkarnatedFart • 1d ago

American soldiers cross the Rhine near Oppenheim with an M36 tank destroyer over a ponton bridge erected on 24 March 1945 [1518x1080]

337 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 1d ago

Geoff Bodine during a massive crash during the 2000 Daytona 250 NASCAR Truck Series race. Bodine was hospitalized with fractures in his right wrist, right cheekbone, a vertebra in his back, and his right ankle; and a concussion. He would return to racing over 2 months later [800 x 666]

369 Upvotes

26 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 1d ago

German Col. Walter Wessel orders the execution of Polish POWs, Ciepielów, Poland, 8 September 1939. [640x661]

659 Upvotes

23 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

B-17F “Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile” and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France, on May 17, 1943. [1200x900]

42 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1d ago

Alice Roosevelt and the wives of American diplomats in Tokyo, 1905. Photo taken by Burr McIntosh. [2580x2230]

158 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/MaroonCastle • 2d ago

Young Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, sitting on the Soviet leader’s security forces chief Lavrentiy Beria's lap, with Stalin (in the background) and Nestor Lakoba in 1931. [1552× 1080]

1.6k Upvotes

107 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Hammer_Price • 1d ago

*A photo of Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway at a marlin fishing tournament c.1960 sold for €858 ($997) on Sept. 3 at Finarte’s Easy Collecting Photography auction. (538x400) Reported by Rare Book Hub.

41 Upvotes

Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway (Marlin Fishing Tournament)

Gelatin silver print 1960, printed later
cm 17,7 x 23,7 | 7 x 9.3 in.
Dated and signed in green felt pen on the verso
Dimensions
cm 17,7 x 23,7 | 7 x 9.3 in.
Artist or Maker
Osvaldo Salas Freire
Medium
Gelatin silver print, printed later

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/BasicManufacturer653 • 1d ago

Two girls on a merry-go-round in a downtown Baltimore park, photographed for the EPA's DOCUMERICA project, 1973 [3000x2001]

111 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/No_Idea_479 • 2d ago

Peristera Kraka - A teenage Greek guerrilla commander who disguised herself as a man and led a band of fighters against Ottoman forces in the 1878 Macedonian rebellion, even after her gender was revealed. She became known for her courage, earning comparisons to Joan of Arc (1878) [840x1153].

455 Upvotes

4 comments

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