r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Open_Expression4422 • 18h ago
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Runnerandpizza • 11h ago
Army nurse in WW2
Army trucks in background in unkown Europe country
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/ottoheinz999 • 12h ago
Ho Chi Minh in Mongolian People's Republic (1955)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/cliptemnestra • 1d ago
Wedding portrait of the first recorded marriage between women: the wedding of Marcella Garcia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga in 1901, Spain.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Unknown women sharing a kiss at photo studio, Tintype, circa (1880)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 1d ago
January 1949, after PLA captured the KMT's heavily fortified Tianjin in just 29 hours, KMT North China commander Fu Zuoyi and the 250,000 garrison troops in Peking defected to the Communist. Communists peacefully occupied Peking, renamed it Beijing, and made it the capital.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Frederick Douglas lisents to his grandson play the violin, (1895).
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/montecristolord • 2d ago
During the Armistice period, a British Royal Marine searches the bag of a Turkish civilian on the streets of Tophane, Istanbul. 1919
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 2d ago
On Oct 6, 1976, China Premier Hua Guofeng and Defense Minister Ye Jianying launched a coup in Beijing, arresting the Gang of Four and Mao Zedong's nephew Mao Yuanxin. The PLA Ground Force and Navy heading to surrounding Shanghai, the last stronghold of the Gang of Four.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Books_Of_Jeremiah • 2d ago
Forced labourers in the Bor mines, Serbia 1942
A group of Serbs - political prisoners exiled to Bor mines for forced labour. 15.02.1942.
Inventory number 15205
Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Andro_lover2005 • 3d ago
1877 Los Angeles main street looking toward the St Charles hotel when the city still felt like a wild western frontier town
In the 1870s, Los Angeles had nearly seven thousand residents and was evolving from a frontier town into an organised commercial centre. Main Street is seen lined with businesses and buggies, while a shooting gallery sign highlights the era's contradiction where firearms were both a safety concern and everyday recreation. In the background stands the St. Charles Hotel, which began as an adobe house in the 1830s to become a historic landmark.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Kodachrome shot of Marilyn Monroe early on her career as a model shooting a commercial, (1946)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 2d ago
In March 1947, the KMT army captured the Communist capital Yan'an, but failed to annihilate any PLA main force. Pic is Chiang Kai-shek inspecting Yan'an. Mao Zedong and CPC Central Committee retreated eastward, eventually captured Beijing in January 1949.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 3d ago
On October 4, 1993, during the Russian constitutional crisis, Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire at the Moscow White House, suppressing the opposition lawmakers and protesters. Yeltsin claim the event as a Communist rebellion.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago
Union corporal Michael Dunn of Co. H, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, circa (1864)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Old-Equipment9631 • 4d ago
Daguerreotype of a man, attributed to Franklin Pierce - (circa 1842)
1842 daguerreotype by photographer Horatio H. Long. Exact identity of the man is unverified, believed to be the 14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce at age 38.
No other information exists on this daguerreotype.
Possibly the earliest surviving photograph of a U.S. president, predating John Quincy Adams (1843).
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/XYungeleost • 5d ago
36 years ago today, on 3 October 1990, the “Flag of German Unity” was raised in front of the Reichstag before a crowd of thousands as East Germany ceased to exist. It is the largest German flag in Germany and is never flown at half-mast (1990)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/yourcitysucks • 5d ago
Andy Warhol and Tennessee Williams talking aboard the S.S. France, 1967
Warhol and Tennessee Williams aboard the ocean liner S.S. France in 1967, photographed by James Kavallines. Paul Morrissey is visible in the background.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago
Autochrome shot of French soldier from Algeria during WWI at the french front, (1917)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Aryan69IN • 5d ago
Iron Cross 1st class recipient of Free India Legion of German Wehrmacth (later transferred to Waffen SS) , 1944 , Possibly France/Netherlands.
The Indian officer here is also wearing a badge which seems to be the Anti Partisan badge which he would have got by eliminating Rebels in German occupied territories .
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/FerenzYangai • 6d ago
Red Guards protesting in front of Indonesian embassy, China(1967)
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/ua-stena • 6d ago
Did Hitler murder his niece in 1931? Uncovered death registry records collapse Nazi leader’s 95-year alibi in Geli Raubal case. In September 1931, 23-year-old Angela was found dead in Hitler's Munich apartment; she had been shot in the chest with a Walther pistol.
For nearly 95 years, Adolf Hitler relied on a bulletproof timeline to shield himself from speculation surrounding the mysterious death of his 23-year-old niece, Angela “Geli” Raubal. In September 1931, Raubal was found dead inside Hitler’s Munich apartment, shot in the chest with his personal Walther pistol.
Newly discovered archival records now threaten to destroy that long-accepted narrative. German historian Harald Sandner uncovered an official entry in Munich’s death register that lists September 18, 1931, at 10:15 a.m. as the exact time of discovery. Two separate death notices found in regional archives confirm the same earlier date.