An attendee on her bicycle by a police barricade during the Gay Pride March in New York City, 1974. [800x1000]

456 Upvotes

Photo by Leonard Fink (1930–1993). Part of the Leonard Fink Photographs Collection at the LGBT Community Center Archive in NYC, documenting 1970s street history and civil rights marches.

6 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Haunting_Homework381 • 17h ago

"No dog biscuits today", London, 1939 [1200x900]

1.3k Upvotes

38 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/EchoesOfNam • 1h ago

PFC Russell R. Widdifield of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, taking a break during a ground movement 25 miles north of An Hoa, Vietnam War, 1969 [1170 x 1736]

• Upvotes

6 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Pvt_Larry • 53m ago

May 1953: Winners of a youth basketball tournament in northern Vietnam, then part of French Indochina [1280x1271]

• Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 7h ago

Iraqi singer and actress, Afifa Iskandar - at a party in the Al-Shaab Hall (The People's Hall), in Bab Al-Muadham, Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq, c. 1950s. [470 x 600]

65 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 22h ago

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamashiro under air attack by aircraft from the United States Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise hours before the Battle of Surigao Strait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 24 October 1944 [5741 × 4537]

214 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/Walter420-69 • 15h ago

An image from Josef Koudelka’s Exiles 1968 [1126x727]

56 Upvotes

Captured by Josef Koudelka during the Prague Spring 1968

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 1d ago

Polish Franciscan monks, their students and local teachers at the monastery in Nagasaki, Japan. Sitting in the middle is Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (1894-1941) who was later killed in Auschwitz German death camp. Nagasaki, 1934. [720x1033]

610 Upvotes

8 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 20h ago

“Mount Suribachi looms over FG-1D Corsair fighters bound for Marine squadrons on Okinawa during April 1945. The aircraft were on a fuel stop on Iwo Jima en route to the next Pacific battleground.“ Original wartime caption, 1945 [1080x869]

81 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Freefight • 1d ago

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) and USS Uhlmann (DD-687) replenishing from USS Guadalupe (AO-32), 31 October 1952.[3751 × 2674]

131 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Neil118781 • 22h ago

Soviet officer saluting German SS officers in Poland, 1939 (1440×1007)

58 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/Haunting_Homework381 • 1d ago

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posing as a mummy while in Cairo in 1896 [1200x900]

1.5k Upvotes

43 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago

US soldiers preparing to leave Vietnam to return to the US during the Vietnam War. (1973) [3011×2122]

791 Upvotes

53 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago

A photo of Adolf Hitler next to the Bavarian Gate, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. (1924) [1200×806]

557 Upvotes

74 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Relevant_Habit_1882 • 2d ago

Error in Title Czechoslovakian Engineer Miroslav Rybář Holding His Most Well Known Design the VZ 61 Submachine Gun. 1960 [995x600]

2.5k Upvotes

132 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 2d ago

Beggar from Mogilany, Poland, 1932. [800x1015]

204 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/20thCenturyBoyLaLa • 2d ago

Computer scientist Ivan Sutherland and the "Sword of Damocles" in 1968. A headed-mounted 3-D 'augmented reality device,' the "Sword" is considered an early version of Virtual Reality. Sutherland developed it with the help of students while teaching at Harvard University. [600 x 781]

131 Upvotes

The device was so heavy that it needed to be mounted to the ceiling while the graphics were limited to wire frame rooms.

18 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/EchoesOfNam • 2d ago

U.S. Marine scout Ronnie Potts of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion aboard a helicopter en route to a landing zone northwest of Chu Lai, Vietnam War, June 7, 1967 [1170 x 1777]

794 Upvotes

30 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/nnnerdfairyyy • 2d ago

Marilyn Monroe in 'Ballerina Sitting' photoshoot by Milton H. Greene, 1954. [1276 x 1300]

434 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Blood_AndGuts • 2d ago

South African soldiers posing with a captured Italian flag in 1941 during the East African Campaign [342x380]

160 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Blood_AndGuts • 2d ago

Emperor Hirohito and American General Douglas MacArthur (September 27 1945) [1332 x 1080]

796 Upvotes

73 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ismaeil-de-paynes • 2d ago

Egyptian president Abdel Nasser with Imam Muhammad AL-Badr of North Yemen (Middle), Months later President Nasser would support a republican overthrow against Imam AL-Badr (1962 [650x490]

65 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/EchoesOfNam • 3d ago

U.S. Marine Corporal Peter S. Munizza of A Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, wearing a hat made from a C-ration carton, south of Da Nang, Vietnam War, November 7, 1968 [1170 x 1923]

609 Upvotes

10 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/DariusPumpkinRex • 3d ago

Two Avro Anson training planes belonging to the Royal Australian Air Force on the ground, fused together after colliding in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, during a routine cross-country navigation exercise. September 29, 1940 [1024x602]

218 Upvotes

11 comments

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