In 1969, when black Americans were still prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr.Rogers decided to invite Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool, breaking a well-known color barrier. [865 x 974]2mo · listentobellion · r/HistoryPorn
Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991 [1400 x 1012]1yr · zsreport · r/HistoryPorn
German SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945 [800x790]1yr · dasbeck · r/HistoryPorn
The McDonald brothers in front of the not yet opened first McDonald's, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA [2048x1492]1yr · notbob1959 · r/HistoryPorn
The Cologne Cathedral stands amidst the ruins of the city after Allied bombings (1944). The cathedral suffered fourteen direct hits by aerial bombs during the war but did not collapse. [1290 x 996]5mo · Meunderwears · r/HistoryPorn
Only one of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937. [568x384]2yr · ILoveLamp9 · r/HistoryPorn
100 years ago: Street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, showing citizens turning out for celebration a few hours after the Germans surrendered and an end of World War I. 11th November 1918 [Colorized][1509 x 1050]11mo · mygrapefruit · r/HistoryPorn
The uniform of Archduke Franz Ferdinand from 1914, whose assassination triggered the outbreak of World War I [661x859]7mo · dunhiii · r/HistoryPorn
Pelé takes a break during the filming of Escape to Victory – in the stadium of a Jewish team filled with Nazi flags in a Communist country in 1981 [600x900]1yr · videki_man · r/HistoryPorn
A federal agent inspects a 'lumber' truck after smelling alcohol during the prohibition period, Los Angeles, 1926 [1536x1196]1yr · terchon · r/HistoryPorn
Police officer John Shuttleworth waist-high in flood waters, Cambridge Ontario, 1974.[1024x948]10mo · electricp0ww0w · r/HistoryPorn
Human Fly George Willig scales the exterior of the World Trade Center's South Tower in 1977. Completing the climb in 3.5 hours, he was arrested at the top after signing several autographs, and was fined $1.10 by the city - a penny for each floor he passed. [2000x2901]1yr · NewRetroPepsi · r/HistoryPorn
A Vietnam veteran throws his war medal at the Capitol building in protest of the war. April 23, 1971. [3661x2442]1mo · aldahuda · r/HistoryPorn
New Yorkers stop to watch the Seinfeld finale, Times Square, 1998 [602 × 661]1yr · bsmilner · r/HistoryPorn
Coca Cola bottle history 1899, 1900, 1915, 1916, 1957 & 1986 [763x579]1yr · Onion_Do_Piaza · r/HistoryPorn
United States President Calvin Coolidge in a Sioux headdress after being officially adopted into the Lakota nation, c. 1927 [2470x3222]1yr · Deathwood · r/HistoryPorn
View of Boston, the oldest surviving aerial photograph ever taken. October 13th, 1860. [534 × 629]2yr · dasbeck · r/HistoryPorn
A Coca Cola advertisement made by spreading grains for pigeons in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, 1960 [800x556]1yr · SpadoKln · r/HistoryPorn
President Kennedy bids farewell to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, as he departs the family compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for what would be their last meeting, 1963 [720x586]2yr · Adabn · r/HistoryPorn
Indian Soldiers arriving in France, World War I, 1914 ( 1600 * 1169 )1yr · doctorabator · r/HistoryPorn
An IRA warning to British troops on patrol, Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1994 [324x489]1yr · Shortty10 · r/HistoryPorn
Anne Frank’s father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis. He was the only surviving family member. (1960) [650x832]1yr · PILLUPIERU · r/HistoryPorn
A former slave holding a horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas, USA 1939. [Colorized] [1867x2715]9mo · AutisticKnight · r/HistoryPorn
This day 47 years ago British troops opened fire on unarmed Catholic civil rights protestors, killing 14 people, 30 January 1972, Derry, Northern Ireland [620x349]8mo · Shortty10 · r/HistoryPorn
President George HW Bush gazes at the Capitol in helicopter after leaving Clinton Inauguration. 1992 [1,024x695]1yr · Jslack97 · r/HistoryPorn
A Chinese lady whose feet were bound from childhood. Late 1800s. [937x967]1mo · Manipulatrix · r/HistoryPorn
Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing on August 6th, 1945 [1041x640]1yr · Onion_Do_Piaza · r/HistoryPorn
A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima, 1945. [616x715]10mo · Barton_Foley · r/HistoryPorn
Earliest known photo of Chernobyl disaster, taken by powerplant's photographer, dawn of April 26th, 1986 [569x646]4mo · vans_checkerboard · r/HistoryPorn
Russian prisoners of war lifting up an American soldier after the US 9th Army liberated them from their camp at Eselheide Germany 9th April 1945 [3584 x 2647]7mo · RyanSmith · r/HistoryPorn
Mark Twain in a rocking chair on a porch with his cat, Dublin, New Hampshire, September 1906 [Colorized] [609x900]10mo · Eggtat · r/HistoryPorn
President Jimmy Carter with the then-leader of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo (1977). Two years later, Obasanjo became the first military head of state to transfer power peacefully to a civilian regime in Nigeria. [1280 × 1873]2yr · Meunderwears · r/HistoryPorn
Hitler reacts to a kiss from an excited American women at the 1936 Olympic Games (1400 x 976)1mo · Memeuchub · r/HistoryPorn
Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the South (November 14th, 1960) [465x700]1yr · Onion_Do_Piaza · r/HistoryPorn
Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C., May 1943 [2777x2153]1yr · notbob1959 · r/HistoryPorn
John F. Kennedy consults with his brother Robert Kennedy during campaigning. 1960 [781x1024]1yr · Jslack97 · r/HistoryPorn
Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960. Colorized [1600x1390]1yr · QuickShifter87 · r/HistoryPorn
Incredible photograph of a German soldier going against direct orders to help a young boy cross the newly formed Berlin Wall after being separated from his family, 1961 [688x960]2yr · yankueling · r/HistoryPorn
The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945. [1200x865]1yr · pubwithnobeer · r/HistoryPorn
Newly liberated Jewish survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp are joined by Jewish U.S. Army soldiers who helped liberate the camp for the first day of Shavuot religious service conducted by U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Herschel Schachter. 18 May 1945. [1575 x 1200]8mo · RyanSmith · r/HistoryPorn
Washington D.C the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, 5 April 1968 [1280×1928]3mo · Crowe410 · r/HistoryPorn
Poles sentenced to death without trial face the firing squad in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939 [1600x1036]1yr · NewRetroPepsi · r/HistoryPorn
A hired reader reads to cigar makers hard at work in Cuban cigar factory (ca. 1900-1910). Because many cigar factory employees were illiterate lectors were hired to read novels, poetry, nonfiction works, and newspapers determined by consensus. [1600 × 1086]2yr · Meunderwears · r/HistoryPorn
Girls making petrol bombs during the Battle of the Bogside, Ireland, 1969 [843x960]1yr · justarandomyoke · r/HistoryPorn
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, 1913 [1200x1061]; murdered by Bolsheviks 100 years ago today.1yr · tsar_nicholas · r/HistoryPorn
Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn’t mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami. Dec. 15, 1941 (Colorized) [2998 x 2392]1yr · Snarblox · r/HistoryPorn
Unit control desk of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, April 18, 1983. [1200 x 910]3mo · Manipulatrix · r/HistoryPorn
US soldiers with a 1941 Mercedes-Benz 540K custom armor-reinforced 'Special Roadster' thought to be Hermann Göring’s, in 1945 [1020x765]6mo · jaykirsch · r/HistoryPorn
John Lennon and Yoko Ono bought a large billboard in Times Square in 1969 declaring that 'War is over if you want it' Colourised [1000x797]1yr · ColourbyRJM · r/HistoryPorn
Moving a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987 [978 x 729]7mo · redofhair · r/HistoryPorn
Japanese college students during their relocation to a internment camp. Sacramento, California 1942 [1952 X 2490]1yr · Voldemort_exe · r/HistoryPorn
Fire and fury: B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies. [962x751]1yr · Roguecop · r/HistoryPorn
Portrait of arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, fashion illustrator Dagmar Cohn, 1947 [573 x 700]2yr · alohasnafu · r/HistoryPorn
David Jones (aka Dave Jay, aka David Bowie) in 1963. He was 16 years-old when he stepped in as saxophonist and lead singer for The Kon-rads at a gig in a south London pub. [930 × 1288]1yr · americangodz · r/HistoryPorn
Nazi Rally being held at the Cathedral of Light in Nuremberg. Designed by Albert Speer, the cathedral actually consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights, at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience. 1930's. [1048x1200]2yr · vienna95 · r/HistoryPorn
[Colourised] 'Big Nims' of the United States 3rd Battalion, 366th Infantry, Laughing at the Sight of His Comrades with Gas Masks On, 1918 [613x478]10mo · Mr_Wunderbar · r/HistoryPorn
British infantryman in 1941 with a long WWI-style bayonet affixed to his rifle [4506 × 4467]1yr · TimothyGonzalez · r/HistoryPorn
Danish resistance fighters holding up and disarming german soldiers, Copenhagen 1945 colourized [697x828]6mo · dakkedyrholm · r/HistoryPorn
Today is the 65th anniversary of Stalin's death. Here is how an Ukrainian immigrant celebrated the occasion. 1953 [540 × 738]1yr · cameraman502 · r/HistoryPorn
Dorothy Counts the first black student at Harry Harding High School, Charlotte, North Carolina, walking to school, 4th September 1957 [1200×851]7mo · Crowe410 · r/HistoryPorn
A photo taken from Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train as it carried his casket from New York to Washington. 1968 [1500x999]11mo · NewRetroPepsi · r/HistoryPorn
a German Zeppelin floats past the Empire State Building, 1936 [1045*750]1yr · prest0n · r/HistoryPorn
Yugoslavia's Jugolinija shipping line and the Twin Towers, 1980s [1024x980]1wk · Porodicnostablo · r/HistoryPorn
Roland, a 4,000 pound elephant seal, getting a snow bath from his handler at Berlin Zoo, c. 1930. [900 x 673]1yr · Szabo84 · r/HistoryPorn
Germany Surrenders - Wall Street, November 7th 1918 [1367x1080][Colorized]11mo · photojacker · r/HistoryPorn
Indian soldiers In Mesopotamia, 1918, during World War I. As other soldiers run for the cover of slit trenches, an Indian Lewis gun team engage an enemy aircraft. [1600x912]1yr · pubwithnobeer · r/HistoryPorn
Frank Sinatra getting off a helicopter with a drink in hand, photographed by Yul Brenner in 1964 [500x700]1yr · ibkeepr · r/HistoryPorn
Muhammed Ali with his winnings from The Rumble In The Jungle, 1974. [500x622]6mo · electricp0ww0w · r/HistoryPorn
Eyes of Hate, a photograph of Goebbels after he finds out his photographer was Jewish, Geneva , September 1933 [1080×1600]2yr · balint-uni · r/HistoryPorn
Fidel Castro laughing at a newspaper headline while visiting New York in 1959 [634x674]1yr · CindySoLoud · r/HistoryPorn
Dave Grohl playing a GameBoy during the recording of Nirvana's In Utero, 1993 (640x419)7mo · QuothTheRaven666 · r/HistoryPorn
Crowd in Times Square, New York City celebrating the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945. [736X939]1yr · ThaloGreen · r/HistoryPorn
Russian inmate points an identifying and accusing finger at a Nazi guard who was especially cruel towards the prisoners in Buchenwald camp. Colorized. [1024x785]2yr · scoopbh · r/HistoryPorn
U.S. Marines in front of the burning Burgan oil fields, Kuwait, 1991 [1033 x 704]1yr · sussoutthemoon · r/HistoryPorn
[Colorized] A Soldier From the Hampshire Regiment Engulfed in Smoke During a Chemical Weapon Training Exercise, 1941 [4506x4467]1yr · Mr_Wunderbar · r/HistoryPorn
President Ronald Reagan meets with Senate Candidate John McCain in the Oval Office. 1986 [1024x678]1yr · Jslack97 · r/HistoryPorn
David Isom, 19, broke the color line in a segregated pool in Florida on June 8, 1958, which resulted in officials closing the facility. [1200 x 1169]2yr · Scaulbylausis · r/HistoryPorn
105mm shells from an allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines, 1916. [1300 × 943]1yr · FlyingNederlander · r/HistoryPorn
The real Lawrence of Arabia (Thomas Edward Lawrence) - 1918 [691*900] colorized2yr · jecinci · r/HistoryPorn
Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas. [963 × 1280]2yr · Kornichon · r/HistoryPorn
SR-71 Pilots in Pressurized Uniforms, 1980's (Blackbird pilots) [2048x928]1yr · dasbeck · r/HistoryPorn
Nurses in their bomb trenches between hospital wards.France. 1918. [2448x1765]11mo · pubwithnobeer · r/HistoryPorn
Nikola Tesla, the last photo ever of the famous scientist, 1st Jan 1943 [600 × 731]2yr · c0urso · r/HistoryPorn
On this day in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module. (1557 by 1168 pixels)1yr · pizzagram6G6 · r/HistoryPorn
A boy between two mounted lobsters caught off the New Jersey coast. 1916 (500X388)1yr · pvs_pvs · r/HistoryPorn
Camp guards at concentration camp Buchenwald, who were captured and beaten by the prisoners on the day of liberation. April 1945 [800x837]11mo · CE_BEP · r/HistoryPorn
Entrance to the Palladium nightclub in New York City, 1985. Closed and demolished in 1997. [990x1172]1yr · gazelle_ · r/HistoryPorn
Amelia Earhart (and an unknown man) standing in front of her single-prop plane in Burbank. California - 1932 - [702*1000]colorized2yr · jecinci · r/HistoryPorn
The moment captured here is Elvis comforting his father after the death of his mother. 1958.[499 x 671]1yr · fjworkshop · r/HistoryPorn
The first two Germans to travel into outer space, Sigmund Jahn (East Germany) and Ulf Merbold (West Germany) meet years later in 1990 [822x462]1yr · ape_pants · r/HistoryPorn
Boy standing in front of fallen statue of Lenin, Ethiopia, 1991 [818×1200]1yr · Crowe410 · r/HistoryPorn
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is attacked by States Rights Party member Jimmy Robinson as King tries to register at the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama, on January 18, 1965. [1500 x 998]1yr · RyanSmith · r/HistoryPorn
The White House seen totally gutted during the Truman Renovation, around 1950 [1200 × 880]1yr · timehack · r/HistoryPorn
Jenny Joseph, the woman that modeled for Columbia Pictures to create their iconic logo 1992 [640 x 480]1mo · onepersononeidea · r/HistoryPorn
A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945 [800x1101]6mo · babaner1 · r/HistoryPorn
Wedding bands that were removed from holocaust victims before they were executed [3000x2372]2yr · RogerDat143 · r/HistoryPorn
Six year-old Werfel, living in an orphanage in Austria, hugs a new pair of shoes given to him by the American Red Cross, 1946. (605*841)1yr · doctorabator · r/HistoryPorn
Doodles created by future sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, aged 10 at the time. Year:1442 [600 x 410]2yr · xamza1608 · r/HistoryPorn
U.S. Army technician Alvin Harley of the 9th Armored Division receives a kiss from a liberated little French girl on Saint Valentine’s Day. Abancourt, Oise, Picardy, France. 14 February 1945 [419 x 600]2mo · RiCriostoir · r/HistoryPorn
Motel manager James Brock pours muriatic acid in the Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool, to get black swimmers out of the pool. June 18, 1964 [960 x 860]1yr · curlysass · r/HistoryPorn
President Truman, wearing a shirt that reads 'Coach Truman, Athletic Department', leads exercises on the deck of the USS Missouri on his return trip to Washington from Brazil, 1947. [1260 x 990]1yr · wineddinedand69ed · r/HistoryPorn
Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who refused to surrender until 1974 [1118 × 1600]2yr · c0urso · r/HistoryPorn
'Prepare to Meet Thy God' - A Bomb Disposal Officer approaches a car bomb during the Irish Troubles [1970][1184x1174]9mo · ominousomanytes · r/HistoryPorn
A lone African-American man attends a Klan rally in Jackson, Mississippi (1950). [2000 x 1573]1yr · LegendaryFalcon · r/HistoryPorn
A Japanese family returning home from an internment camp find their home and garage vandalized in Seattle, Washington 1945. [1600x1211]2yr · TragicDonut · r/HistoryPorn
Two homeless men squat in the shadow of the recently completed World Trade Center in 1975... [1366 × 2040]1yr · Reporter_at_large · r/HistoryPorn
In 1985 Ebony Magazine ran a feature called, What They May Look Like In The Year 2000. Here's Michael Jackson's. [600 x 817]1yr · zdamaneta · r/HistoryPorn
Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together. Het Oude Kerkhof, Roermond, the Netherlands, 1888 [1280 x 1698]5d · AlleyBarber · r/HistoryPorn
A parade of the Royal Canadian Dragoons headed down Bloor Street West in Toronto, Canada, before leaving for World War I in 1915. [1920x1088]11mo · KatsumotoKurier · r/HistoryPorn
The marine and the kitten. Korean War, 1952. Credit: Marine Corps Archives. [1150x1442]9mo · trismegisto97 · r/HistoryPorn
The last living thylacine in captivity yawns at the Hobart Zoo, Tasmania, 1933 [1200x753]1yr · LividBit · r/HistoryPorn
A game of human chess St Petersburg then Leningrad Russia circa 1924 (702 x 5061yr · rsan_jay · r/HistoryPorn
Spring 1894 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka. Mark Twain) stands in the laboratory of Nikola Tesla. [727x918]1yr · TUTR__app · r/HistoryPorn
When both sides of the channel tunnel first met 1990 [595x621]2yr · TheCrippledGiraffe · r/HistoryPorn
Two women buying cocaine capsules from their dealer, the lookout is standing in the background, Berlin 1929 [598x411]1yr · ibkeepr · r/HistoryPorn
Eddie The Eagle Edwards soars above a roaring crowd at the 1992 Calgary Winter Olympics. He finished last. (1024x596)1yr · Lord_Cornwallis_III · r/HistoryPorn
Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, I AM A MAN pass by on March 29, 1968 [596x400]1yr · watsin_aname · r/HistoryPorn
Vivien Leigh taking a cigarette break during the filming of “Gone With The Wind”, 1939 [798x511]8mo · ibkeepr · r/HistoryPorn
Young girl in the hospital receiving medical therapy from ducklings [1956] [605x537]1yr · dill_on123 · r/HistoryPorn
