Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Colonel Sanders lays in state at Southern Seminary's Alumni Memorial Chapel in Louisville, Kentucky. Sanders was buried in his signature white suit and black western string tie. An estimated 1,000 mourners attended his funeral. December 20, 1980. [640 x 424]6mo ⋅ brb1006 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
One of only 2 photographs ever taken of US president Andrew Jackson. 1845 (382×400)10mo ⋅ Heeeeehawwwwwww ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
American deserters being publicly humiliated in Florient, France on November 5, 1918. During WWI, 2,657 U.S. servicemen were convicted of desertion, with 24 being sentenced to death; all of the condemned were instead commuted to prison terms by President Woodrow Wilson. [800 x 749]3yr ⋅ TrendWarrior101 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A Christian wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986. [1080x730]9mo ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Billboard swearing Manhattan Project workers to secrecy, 1945. [1600x1573]9mo ⋅ caleb2320 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. 1943 [3133 x 3286] [Colorized]2yr ⋅ Gensis916 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S. Admiral David Farragut. He began his naval career as a nine year old boy in 1810. He remained on active duty until his death in 1870. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! [1200 x 1658]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Unit 731 personnel conduct a bacteriological trial upon a test subject in northeast China, 1940. [1080x875]2yr ⋅ Chad_Monke69 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The O’Halloran sisters – Annie, Honoria and Sarah, pouring boiling water to scald the bailiffs (who tried to evict the family)and even stealing one of their bayonets. During the Irish Land War, 1889 (700x581)1yr ⋅ Immidandy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A female Afghan communist revolutionary during the Saur Revolution, 1978 [1260x1890]9mo ⋅ PanAfricanDream ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A rare picture of real cowboys in Tascosa, TX, relaxing in 1908, as opposed to movie ones. Photo by Erwin E. Smith [800x648]1yr ⋅ Diamond_Dog_XOF ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Paparazzi surrounding Socks, Bill Clinton's cat, circa 1992 [960x704]8mo ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Navajo uranium miner, April 1951. Photographer Loomis Dean. [1280x1220]3yr ⋅ Watchung ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Lepa Radic of the Yugoslav Partisans being executed in 1943. The Germans offered her a way out of execution by revealing her comrades' and leaders' identities. She replied that she was not a traitor and that her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death [1305x1663]4yr ⋅ Moontouch ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
An Inupiat Eskimo touches a California gray whale on the nose as it rests in one of the breathing holes carved during the two-week rescue effort which gained worldwide media coverage in Beaufort Sea ice off Point Barrow, Alaska October 1988 [612x424]1yr ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A German soldier, soviet soldier and a Finnish soldier sit together and talk about their interest for photography. 1941, Finland(660x465)6mo ⋅ Antique_Pop1482 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Presidents of Ukraine, the US, and Russia signing an agreement for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Budapest Memorandum, 1994. [1601x1067]5mo ⋅ Sasha0503 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S. & Soviet Troops at Spandau Prison in Berlin, where Top Nazi War Criminals were held after the War. Rudolf Hess resided there until his death in 1987, 1980s [1500x1138]1yr ⋅ Beneficial-Cucumber1 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The World Trade Center airplane alert antenna, amidst the rubble of ground zero. 13 September 2001 [1312 × 2000]7mo ⋅ HeStoleMyBalloons ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion preparing to jump from a Douglas C-47 on a wildfire in Oregon. In 1945, during Operation Fire Fly, Black paratroopers made more than 8,000 individual jumps to fight wildfires and disarm Japanese balloon bombs in the Pacific Northwest [2000 x 1623].1yr ⋅ Aboveground_Plush ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986. [500 x 333]3yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A portrait of Buck Colbert Franklin, an attorney who notably defended the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, ca. 1901 [colorized] [1347x1920]2yr ⋅ Sir_Alexander_V ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Pele 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]6yr ⋅ videki_man ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
a Congolese man next to an Okapi, somewhere in the Congo River Basin. circa 1910 [667x456]1yr ⋅ homo_artis ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Sign assures people that the business is Russian-owned. Mobs had been attacking shops that they suspected were owned by Germans. London, 1915 [1100x877]2yr ⋅ Smoke_Me_When_i_Die ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945 [1243 x 975]4yr ⋅ haroldas194 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
They shall not grow old: two South Vietnamese child soldiers sharing a smoke as they wait for a coming North Vietnamese attack, Vietnam war, 1965-1975 [499x403]2yr ⋅ redditnamesucks ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout during WWI. c. 1914 [1213x1600]2yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
George Lincoln Rockwell and members of the American Nazi Party attend a Nation of Islam summit in 1961. [1600×1118]2yr ⋅ thegreatlib23 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
In the 1940s, men dressed in shorts and cowboy boots served up to women at a drive through in Texas. [1290x1583]1yr ⋅ brolbo ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Ground view of human fly George Willig climbing the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, May 26, 1977 [1195×1734]2yr ⋅ somnum_osseus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944. This was a mock execution attempting to get the resistance fighter to talk. It didn’t work. Georges did not divulge any information. Blind died in a concentration camp later the same year.[1599x1160]3yr ⋅ LordJizzman ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The manuscript draft of the Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevski, 1880. [2048x1648]2yr ⋅ dabaconator0 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Women's detachment of the Red Army, Russian Civil War, 1919. [1689x2048]2yr ⋅ Bend-It-Like-Bakunin ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Vice President Al Gore prepares to talk to White House staff in December 1998, after President Clinton had just been impeached. [1600×1067]2yr ⋅ somnum_osseus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
1940 portrait of Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe. He survived WWII and was tried at Nuremberg, but was acquitted (2782x3780)1wk ⋅ Matewan1998 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A rare photo of a traffic accident in the Netherlands more than 100 years ago. The photo was taken in 1914. [855x626]3yr ⋅ AbAladwani ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Czechoslovak man posing with half loaf of bread in front of banner The meaning of the policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - paradise for humans Communist Czechoslovakia, propably 1960s. [612x915]3yr ⋅ Muff1995 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
President Lyndon B. Johnson drives his Amphicar on the lake of his Texas ranch in 1965. [900X608]2yr ⋅ majestic-mansamusa ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
28-year-old Marcy Borders, known as the dust lady, worked at the Bank of America in the World Trade Center and survived its collapse, September 11 2001. Borders passed away from cancer in August 24, 2015. Photographed by Stan Honda [1333 x 2000]9mo ⋅ ghostmrchicken ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
[Colorized] The Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre museum at the end of World War II. Paris 1945 [1236x1294]1yr ⋅ Andymore85 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Boys pray on bunk beds in a dormitory at the Bishop Horden Memorial School, a residential school in the indigenous Cree community of Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada in 1950. [780 x 603]1yr ⋅ sgt_hard_times ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Then Princess Juliana of the Netherlands with Kaiser Wilhelm II. Doorn 1938 [884 x 489]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S. Marines in Peiping, China readies for deployment to lift the siege in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, c. June 1900 [1000 x 718]1yr ⋅ TrendWarrior101 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
David Bowie after being arrested for marijuana possession in Rochester, 1976 (750x559)2yr ⋅ TheEliteKoala1 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Barbara Walters during her freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College in 1949. [630x800]2yr ⋅ majestic-mansamusa ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Richard Nixon's loyal secretary Rose Mary Woods takes one for the team as she demonstrates her implausible claim that she erased part of an incriminating White House audio tape when she answered the phone while transcribing the tape. 1974 [1280 X 852]3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Prince Ahmad Hassanein, an Egyptian nobleman, teacher, desert explorer, aviator and an Olympic athlete. Photographed during his expedition to the Libyan deserts in 1924 [618x834].1yr ⋅ HerrasKissa ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
March 2003. Sculptor Luis Jimenez stands next to a small model and torso piece of his commissioned statue Blue Mustang, known to Denver locals as Blucifer. In 2006, Jimenez died in his studio while working on Blue Mustang in which a section came loose and severed an artery in his leg. [1000x1004]1yr ⋅ OtakuMusician ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
On this day Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to enter space. 1963. (725×408)10mo ⋅ Heeeeehawwwwwww ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
JonBenet Ramsey seen here with her mother Patsy Ramsey in one of her last photos. Dec 25,1996. She would be found dead the following day on Dec 26,1996 in a case that remains unsolved to this day.[576x753]2wk ⋅ Behindthescenes10 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Vladimir Lenin plays chess (yelling checkmate) with Alexander Bogdanov during a visit to Maxim Gorky, Capri, Italy, 1908 - [2022x1269]2yr ⋅ stepoon ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Edward Delafield Smith was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and federal prosecutor. While a prosecutor, he combatted the slave trade by prosecuting slave traders as pirates. In 1861, he gained international attention after one case resulted in a slave trader being sentenced to death [848 x 1278].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
This 1974 photograph shows the true colours of the freshly unearthed Terracotta Warriors, before rapid deterioration due to environmental exposures. (540x720)1yr ⋅ kbzero ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The weathered face of Norwegian polar explorer Tryggve Gran - 1923 (337x480)3yr ⋅ Sexual-Thunder69 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Tibetan skeleton dancers (Buddhist tradition) autochrome taken by Joseph Rock, 1925 [1400x904]2yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
John T Thompson posing with his invention on August 12, 1916 [640x733]1yr ⋅ ip_address_freely ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Three views of Lewis Payne (a.k.a. Lewis Powell), three months before his execution by hanging, wearing the same sweater. By Alexander Gardner (wet collodion, glass plate), April 1865 (2000x839)1yr ⋅ Immidandy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
King Frederik the 9th of Denmark showing of his ink around 1946-1950 (600x918)2yr ⋅ Representative_Comb6 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Bulgarian bride and groom on their wedding day, the Sofia region, Bulgaria 1893 [1080x1338]1yr ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ 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]6yr ⋅ NewRetroPepsi ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Santa Claus with the children during Croatian War. Vukovar, 1992 [919 x 768]1yr ⋅ btce_arno ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Chicago, Illinois 1942: The information desk at Union Station (Colorized by me) [6046x6319]1yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ 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]5yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A Chinese lady whose feet were bound from childhood. Late 1800s. [937x967]5yr ⋅ Manipulatrix ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The eyes of the world are upon you. June 5th, 1944. One day before D-Day. [1080x1080] [colorized]4yr ⋅ photojacker ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Filming Hey Jude, Twickenham Studios, London. September 1968. [1022x1024]2yr ⋅ SchrodingersLego ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hitler's personal bodyguards undergoing a drill inspection in Berlin, 1938 [1600 x 1200]2yr ⋅ blankiez1 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Abe and his wife, Akie, marry at their wedding in Tokyo in 1987. They were accompanied by former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and his wife, Mie. [1100x901]1yr ⋅ Connect-Artist-8986 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S President George H.W. Bush honors pop singer Michael Jackson with the Artist of the Decade award at the White House on April 5, 1990. [ 470 × 599]1yr ⋅ GameFan9 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Albert Einstein, his secretary Helen (left), and daughter Margaret (right) becoming U.S. citizens to avoid returning to Nazi Germany, 1940 [630 x 497]4yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Student survivors head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school. Tuesday, April 20, 1999. [1500×2027]2yr ⋅ somnum_osseus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Rare 1950's photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin's head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the Katyn Massacre, Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)4mo ⋅ Felix_Babakuntos ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
An extremely unlikely traffic accident occurred in Lysekil, Sweden, the 19th of August 1961. A collision between a car and a submarine! [792×600]4yr ⋅ Randomswedishdude ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Striking workers raise a red flag in Glasgow, 1919. Fears of a 'Bolshevist Uprising' resulted in a violent crackdown, causing the day to be known as The Battle of George Square or Bloody Friday. [976x549]1yr ⋅ Pipthegreat ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
George Lincoln Rockwell (far right) with American Nazi party members, including the man that later killed him, John Patler (kneeling, left), and their Volkswagen hate bus in Virginia, 1961 [2953x2962]3yr ⋅ notbob1959 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Inhabitants of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. The islands had been inhabited since antiquity, but would be evacuated in 1930. Big image, zoom in for detail. [5000 x 3737]1d ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
US 3rd Army soldier guarding loot found stored in the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) at the Ellingen Castle in southern Germany, April 24, 1945 (photo enhanced and colorized by me) [1491x1484]11mo ⋅ PumpkinAutomatic5068 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
William Patrick Hitler, nephew of Adolf Hitler, in US Navy uniform, 1944-7. His three remaining sons allegedly made a pact to never have children so as to discontinue the family line. (190x222)2wk ⋅ Lez2diz ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Willis Winn, an ex-slave, holding the horn 'with which slaves were called'. 1936. [1350x1080] [Colorized]4yr ⋅ photojacker ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
New Yorkers stop to watch the Seinfeld finale, Times Square, 1998 [602 × 661]6yr ⋅ bsmilner ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Boris Yeltsin visits a grocery store in Houston, Texas with an official Soviet delegation (1990)[1024×639]5mo ⋅ Breab1 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X at the Capitol listening to the Senate debate on the Civil Rights bill. The two met for only one minute. 1964 ( 1920x2104)3wk ⋅ junior_vorenus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Man on a pole at World Pole Sitting Championships, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands, 9 August 1971 [2448x3675]11mo ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A couple poses near their home on their wedding day in East Beirut, Lebanon 1989. Photo by Joseph Barrak. [960x637]6mo ⋅ Tony_Tanna78 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Departure of a Red Cross train going to Switzerland, Budapest, Hungary, 1947 [1134x1280]1yr ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Parisian resistance fighters shooting at Nazi occupiers from a window, 1944 [1600x1394]2yr ⋅ RobinTheKing ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Belle Epoque dancer Cleo de Merode, considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her time - 1890s [564 x 834]2yr ⋅ ting-en ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hungarian border guards dismantling the border fence with Austria. This will allow a number of East Germans to defect and flee to Austria (Hungary 1989) [2867x1891]11mo ⋅ SteO153 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Helen Keller visits wounded soldiers at a military hospital in Texas, 1944 [985x800]2yr ⋅ EssoEssex ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Champs-Elysees as seen from the Arc de Triomphe, VE Day. Paris, France, May 8, 1945. [Colorization] [1180x787]2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The lottery used by the Selective Service to determine who would be drafted for Vietnam first. In each capsule is a day of the year, determining the order of draftees by their birthday. Washington D.C. 1969 [1600x1129]4yr ⋅ EssoEssex ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Opera singer Kristina Nilsson, who was plucked from poverty because of her talent, visiting her sister who remained a farmers wife. Sweden 1900. [1109x890]4yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A group of US Marine artillery men display the Black Power fist with a homemadeBlack Power flag. Con Thien, South Vietnam. December 1968.[1600x1059]1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Young lady enjoying a day at the beach, France, ca 1920 [640x800]9mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Ken Kozakiewicz breaks down in an evacuation helicopter after hearing that his friend, the driver of his Bradley FV, was killed in a friendly fire incident that he himself survived, Feb. 27, 1991. The following day, President Bush suspended offensive combat, declaring Kuwait liberated.(1600x1064)1mo ⋅ Lez2diz ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A young Prince Charles standing between his grandmother, The Queen Mother, and aunt, Princess Margaret, at his mother Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 [800x633]3yr ⋅ rockystl ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Peleliu, often described as one of the most harrowing battles of World War 2. The island was predicted to be taken in 4 days, instead it lasted 2 months. (September 15th - November 27th, 1944). 720x5771yr ⋅ FlapThePlatypus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Confederate and Union soldiers shaking hands at a Battle of Gettysburg reunion (1913) [1100 x 825]3yr ⋅ imrhod ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A federal agent inspects a 'lumber' truck after smelling alcohol during the prohibition period, Los Angeles, 1926 [1536x1196]5yr ⋅ terchon ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S. soldier: Sgt. Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from a Viet Cong tunnel while holding a silencer-equipped revolver (January 21, 1967) [800 x 581]3yr ⋅ derzto ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Dressed up black teenagers during the riots in New York City. United States, 1943 [750x939]2yr ⋅ TakeTheCube ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A boy, knocked out by a diabetic coma, is transported to a waiting room, a place where his relatives can be with him in his last moments, 1920s. [720x610]1yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
HMS Cleopatra throws out smoke to shield the convoy as HMS Euryalus elevates her forward 5.25 inch guns to shell the Italian Fleet. Second Battle of Sirte. 22 March 1942 [3306 x 2480]1yr ⋅ HeStoleMyBalloons ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Subcomandante Marcos, the spokesman of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, striking a pose while smoking a pipe atop a horse in Chiapas, Mexico, 1996. [1013x1280]1yr ⋅ Agreeable_Tank229 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A Cathedral Of Light Rally In Nuremberg, Germany, 1937. (750 x 858)1yr ⋅ johnnycagemiz ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Gene Cernan smiling for the camera, with his suit caked in lunar dust. December 13, 1972. [4400x4600]1yr ⋅ AstroScholar21 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Ronald Reagan poses at the University of Southern California in 1940. He was chosen as an example of the ideal male body by the school's fine arts department. [923x649]7mo ⋅ Xi_JinpingXIV ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
On this day in 1992, a 27-pound (12.37 kg) meteorite hit Michelle Knapp's newly-purchased $300 1980 Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. She sold the car to a meteorite collector and dealer for $25,000. The car is on display in Paris today. [1024X768]1yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The mugshot of Sergei Korolev, Soviet Ukrainian rocket engineer, the man responsible for the first human spaceflight, soon after his arrest by Stalin's secret police in 1938. While in custody he was severely beaten by the NKVD henchmen. He remained incarcerated until 1944 [1408 x 990]2yr ⋅ IntroductionWest9801 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
