r/historyporn images and videos

A woman practices "Uchimizu" (the traditional act of sprinkling water to cool the street) in Kobe, Japan, 1951. Photograph by Koji Takashima. [1000x800]

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines stewardess dressed in arctic winter gear and holding a ArmaLite AR-10 battle rifle, included in their aircraft's polar survival kits, c. 1958 - 1959. [1284 x 1001]

Faris Tuohy, who fought in WWII, holds a photo from 1944. That’s him on the left, holding a cup of coffee after one of many battles. He celebrated 97th birthday in April 2023. He passed away on 6/2/2023 (320 × 423)

The grave of the philosopher Immanuel Kant in Königsberg(now Kaliningrad), covered in graffiti left by Soviet soldiers in 1945. [1391 x 2047]

Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton, 1908. [1565×2048]

In 1953, Tenzing and Edmund reached Everest’s summit. Hillary took this famous photo of Tenzing, while Tenzing’s offer to photograph Hillary was politely declined. Their leader called it a collective achievement, though Tenzing later revealed Hillary stepped onto the summit first. 1080×1590

Portrait of Audie Murphy, 1948, the most decorated American soldier in World War II. [1104×1600]

Man browses for books in the old public library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955 [1200x900]

A worker whose job is to carry a bag of up to 40 kg reaches the top of the mine via ladder, Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil 1986.[2200x1469]

Members of the NKVD Special Operational Purpose Division carrying Nazi flags and standards for the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade. The parade was the largest military parade ever held in Red Square. June 24, 1945. [810x567]

Dismantling a monument to Lenin, East Berlin, November 1991[932x605]

Couples dancing in the Grand Foyer of the Paris Opera House at the Victory Ball, May, 1946 [1200x900]

In the 1960s, Nepal required all taxis to be painted in tiger stripes with a tiger's head on the hood. [4331 × 5847]

Out of over 750,000 soldiers that fought for South, these were last 3 surviving Confederate Civil War veterans, 1951. The last Union veteran would live to 1956 (548 × 680)

A Maya man standing next to an ancient Maya stone sculpture in Yucatán, Mexico, 1947. Photographed by Dmitri Kessel for LIFE Magazine. [812 x 1076]

King Tiger tanks from the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion - at the intersection near Rue d'Aubervilliers and Boulevard de la Villette - Paris, France, c. August 12th, 1944. [907 x 960]

Thomas Francis Meagher, the future governor of Montana, shortly after being sentenced to death for sedition (Dublin, 1848) [1000x1337].

82 years ago today (October 5, 1944) PFC Victor Kullman was killed in Action in France, he was 27 years old. [1194x1440]

An Irish demonstration in Manhattan protesting British rule in Northern Ireland and mourning IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who had died 4 days earlier after a 66-day hunger strike demanding that imprisoned IRA members be granted political-prisoner status. (1981) [2378×3500]

Little girls acting as pallbearers at the funeral of another little girl, Lake Andes, South Dakota, 1912 [1366 x 768]

Copper mine shaft-and-rock house in Michigan’s Copper Country, c. 1900 [880x870]

Vincent van Gogh at age 19, in 1873. [988×1118]

German Skijäger (ski hunter) with an MP43 rifle - from the 1st Skijäger Division of the Wehrmacht - near Pripyat, Ukraine, c. January - February 1944. [2048 x 1435]

Erwin Rommel with a fox, 1917 (1320×1533)

One of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945, Shoichi Yokoi (1915-1997) is overcome with emotion on his return to Tokyo, 2nd February 1972. [1347x1800]

George H.W. Bush holding his infant son and future president, George W. Bush, 1946 (508 × 680 )

American paratroopers of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division ride into Münster, Germany, on the back deck of a British Churchill tank, 1945. [1035x1294]

“Even the sky was crying” Pelé being carried off in the pouring rain after his final professional football match at Giants Stadium. He played the first half for the New York Cosmos and the second half for Santos FC. (October 1977)(1280x1896)

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight Attendant Wearing Arctic Survival Gear & Handling an AR-10 Battle Rifle (1950s) [1121x981]

Fidel Castro with his bear cub gifted by local geologists (Soviet Union) (1963) {500:443}

The Devastation and Destruction of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. [2320×448]

Employees making hanafuda cards at Nintendo card factory in Kyoto, Japan 1956. [563 × 469]

German anti-aircraft crew's mascot next to an 88 MM gun, circa 1943 [885x1376]

Zenon Mochalski, motorman of the ice-covered Gdy-196 fishing boat observes the ice floes after the aborted entry into the port of Gdynia. Poland, February 1956. Photo by Zbigniew Kosycarz. [1080x772]

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew on board of Nimrod ship on March, 4, 1909 after a failed South Pole hike attempt [500x335]. Poor preparations, bad weather and health conditions made them turn back. Upon returning he claimed that "alive donkey worth more than a dead lion"

German soldier from the Waffen SS, carrying an MG 34 machine gun: during the Normandy campaign, c. June - August 1944. [1320 x 1656]

Canadian Army scouts of the Calgary Highlanders north of Kapellen, Belgium. (L-R): Sergeant H.A. Marshall, Corporal S. Kormendy. 6 October 1944 [1864 × 1985]

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1861 [1200x900]

Italian partisans planning a patrol. Castelluccio area, Italy, 5 October 1944 [5205 × 4395]

Jalmari Takkinen, the commander-in-chief of the uprising, in his office. Aunus, Karelia. December 1, 1921 [500x855]

Members of the German Edelweiss II weather station in north-eastern Greenland taken prisoner by American troops. 4 October 1944 [4327 × 3488]

PVT Earl Breeden went Missing on October 2, 1944 in the Netherlands, he was 19 years old. [1154x1440]

Iron cross 1st class recipient (middle) of Free India legion volunteer officer of German Wehrmacth (later Waffen SS) , 1944 , (856x549)

Soviet soldier stands guard next to to Polish PWS-26 trainer aircraft shot down near the city of Równe (Rivne), in the Soviet occupied part of Poland – during the German-Soviet invasion, c. September 18th, 1939. [2468 x 1630]

Soldier from the Wehrmacht, standing next to a road sign (Saporoshje - 25km) Zaporizhzhia - in Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa, c. October 1941. [450 x 338]

The sinking of the Italian steamer Loreto seen through the periscope of her sinker, HMS P 46, 13 October 1942. Loreto was carrying 400 Indian POWs, of whom 123 died in the sinking [1234 x 586]

Tupolev Tu-22 strategic supersonic bombers: from the Ukrainian Air Force, before the aircraft were decommissioned and scrapped under international disarmament agreements (Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances), photo c. 1990s. [1187 x 740]

A Girl Sitting In The Wreckage Of Her Bombed-Out Home With Her Doll, London, 1940. [700x900]

Royalist Yemeni forces attempt to repel an Egyptian armored attack during the North Yemen civil war (sometimes called Egypt's Vietnam or America's Yemen) (1960s) [600x262]

Wooden-hulled broadside ironclad USS Galena shortly after her 15 May 1862 action with Confederate batteries at Drewry's Bluff, on the James River.[1700 × 1796]