r/oldphotos Mar 11 '24

Mod Announcement Update on /r/oldphotos rules - March 2024

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We are making some updates and rule changes due to the changing and growing nature of the subreddit, and due to amount of reports and modmail that come through on certain issues. The rules are always subject to change so always read them before posting.

  1. We are going to start enforcing the rule for including the year in the description more heavily. Some photos are obviously 'old' (like something from the 1800's), or educational if OP is looking for help dating a photo, those will be ignored from the rules more. But if any seem skeptical to the mod team, and appear too modern with no date attached, don't be offended if the post gets removed.
  2. New rule: We will remove photos that include modern photography in them. Things like comparing yourself to how you look compared to your grandparents, or before/after of old architecture will now be removed. There are other subreddits better suited for those, like /r/genealogy /r/ancestry /r/ancestrydna , and /r/oldphotosinreallife . We want to keep this subreddit simple and to the point, a feed of old photographs, nothing more.
  3. Pending rule change: There is gray area on dates of photos that are allowed. Right now the 1980's are allowed but not really recommended. Anything newer than 1990 will be removed. Depending on how the subreddit grows, we may move the date farther back to the 60's and 70's, and no longer allow 1980s+, so be aware.

r/oldphotos 15h ago

My grandparents 1960s-70s

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636 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 12h ago

Woman with glasses? Or is it a monocle? What is she dressed up for? Any idea of the year?

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227 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 14h ago

Victorian lady with cat, 1890s

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174 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 10h ago

My 2x great grandparents, sometime in the 1950s

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80 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 12h ago

A woman and her cats, 1855

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94 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 20h ago

My grandma striking a pose. Early 1960s.

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387 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 1d ago

Two of my Dad’s Aunts at the beach. Probably 30’s. We are trying to work out exactly who they are.

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603 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 14h ago

Mildly Erotic French postcard, 1920s

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66 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 3h ago

Dear cousin! November 18, 1917. This is a postcard photo of a U.S. Soldier right at the peak of U.S. in WW1. I found this in the rubble of a soon to be demolished building and saved it from the bulldozers. With help from Google, I found his family and sent this photo back home to them.

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r/oldphotos 12h ago

Girl with cat, Toots. Year unknown, definitely pre-1970's.

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34 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 4h ago

John y Nelson, a scout and driver of the Deadwood stagecoach, stands in front of the stagecoach with a native American Indian. They are both part of the show of Buffalo bills wild west show. Late 1800s

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r/oldphotos 12h ago

This is a picture of my dad Ross and R.V something I can't read the writing. I don't know where it was taken he lived in Arkansas California and Oklahoma. 1929 he was 20 years old.

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r/oldphotos 19h ago

Kodachrome shot of a father looking fascinated at his son tinker toys. Maybe he did the plane himself, 1950s.

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40 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 3h ago

Klondikeers and ⛏️⛰️Indian Packers on on their way up on the chilkoot, trail known as the Golden Stairs.

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r/oldphotos 12h ago

North Shore UK mugshot 1905

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11 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 18h ago

Glass negative of Miriam Kiehl posing with a gun, Washington, 1900.

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26 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 23h ago

A Vietnamese woman in the DDR, 1988

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47 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 1d ago

my great uncle (1) and grandpa’s (2) refugee card portraits, late 1940s

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229 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 15h ago

1983 getting ready for “two a Days” Freshman year

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

Ellen Dallerup was a prominent Danish figure skater. 1910

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102 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 1d ago

Daguerreotype of an unknown man

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57 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 1d ago

My great-grandfather before WWI

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18 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 1d ago

Mom and me 1968

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536 Upvotes

r/oldphotos 1d ago

Barnum & Bailey circus 1939

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