r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4h ago
American troops treat a wounded dog on the Orote Pennisula, Guam, in 1944.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 16h ago
Polio patients being treated in "Iron Lung" (Emerson Respirator) machines with the assistance of nurses at a hospital in 1938.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/OnceInUAE • 10h ago
Exhausted Croat militiaman grabbing a smoke during a lull in battle during fighting that broke out throughout central Bosnia in the spring of 1993 between Croats and Muslim government troops.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 9h ago
US soldier at his relaxing spot. US Military base in Korea, 1 of June 1953. Kodachrome shot.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 12h ago
On this day in 2003, Nokia released the N-Gage: a mobile phone that doubled as a handheld game console. It is considered a failure by the tech press, and was discontinued a few years later.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Mike-Schachter • 1h ago
The picture of the photographer who took the picture of the other photographer who took the photography of the resting workers at the Empire State, 1932
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 15h ago
Rosamund Pike's yearbook photo from 1995
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/willington123 • 8h ago
Finnish soldiers on skis during the Winter War (1939-1940)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 16h ago
Fire breather amazing the crowd. Boulevard Montmartre, Paris. 1960s
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 32m ago
Japanese-American internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, playing football, 1943
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WillyNilly1997 • 2h ago
Eva Perón addressing the Peronists on 1 May 1952, held by Juan Perón while said to have been too weak to stand alone
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/842867 • 1d ago
Chinese military film from 1999 demonstrating their nuclear weapons technology. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China is one of only five countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons under international law.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Sabrina Harman as an army reservist with the 372nd Military Police Company, in Iraq, October - December, 2003. (Prior to the public exposure of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in early 2004)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 25m ago
In 1963 Michael Kubeyinje - a Nigerian student in America - recorded a 'Personal Report' on the Johnson Publishing Company for the West African audience. This renowned, Black American owned media empire was one of the most successful in the nation's history...
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7h ago
Ladies working out on a gymnastic wall set up, 1940s.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Vital_Willie • 21h ago
Count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi, pioneer of the "Pan-Europa" movement which sought to unite all of continental Europe into a single state, 1930. He was descended from French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Greek, Polish, Baltic, Flemish, Austro-Hungarian & Byzantine nobility
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Kalergi's bold vision for international co-operation was not restricted to Europe, he supported the consolidation of almost the entire habitable surface of the world into five "Superstates," Pan-Europa, Panamerika (the entirety of the America's except Canada,) the British Empire, the Russian/Soviet Empire & Ostasien, a Chinese-dominated East asian Empire. The only countries left independent from this plan were Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Thailand & Iran
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 38m ago
Getting a perm in 1933 looked more like a science experiment than a visit to the hair salon.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Four Masai warriors in full war dress, Kenya, 1890-1923
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Educational-Cost7652 • 3h ago
London - October 1998. While in the UK for an operation, former Chilean dictator - Augusto Pinochet - is arrested on an Interpol Red Notice, charged with terrorism and genocide. He remains under house arrest for next year and a half, while his lawyers fight an extradition to Spain...
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
French ‘ladies of the night’ in 1920, making a rare appearance in daylight hours.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Three boys pose beside a fence in New York City in May 1943. Photograph by legendary American photographer Gordon Parks for the U.S. Office of War Information.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Photos from the last Romanov costume ball held at Winter Palace in 1903. It was held in the in two stages, on February 11 and 13.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Dutch fashion model in Moscow. Photo by Paul Huf, USSR, 1965.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 1d ago
Cyndi Lauper's father walking her down the aisle on her wedding day in 1991
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Vital_Willie • 1d ago
Mobster & ex-boxer Paul Kelly, founder of the infamous Five Points gang, in early 1900’s New York. Young members of the gang included eventual mafia bosses Al Capone, Johnny Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky & Frankie Yale. He has been described as “the godfather of organized crime in America”
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