Satellite view of a freighter sailing through Lake St Clair. Feb 13, 2023. (large image 10000x5000)1yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/Detroit
1935 Christmas card photo from John F Kennedy and his college roommates.[533x451] Details in comments.11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
What is Jumbo Boy? This is supposedly cleaning solution being brought into the Saudi consulate in Turkey today. Googling Jumbo Boy doesn't turn up anything for me.6yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/whatisthisthing
In 1956, 33 days after the Soviet Army invaded Hungary, the two nations faced each other in an Olympic water polo match, known as the Blood in the Water match. Hungary defeated the Soviet Union 4-0, and went on to win the gold medal. December 1956, Melbourne Australia. [1548x1978]7yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A security guard aims his gun at a man who holds a knife at the throat of a 22 year old woman in a kidnapping attempt in a Hollywood parking lot, November 23, 1973 (Pulitzer Prize Winning photo by Anthony K. Roberts) [600x769]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
In 1965, 25-year old Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. They, however, refused to allow him to take the oath of office because of his opposition to the Vietnam War draft. [1024x768]8yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A man browsing for books in Cincinnati's cavernous old main library. The library was demolished in 1955. [2659x2625]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Before refrigeration, animals were transported to cities to provide fresh meat. Chicago Stockyards, 1947.[1458x1052]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A woman accused of collaborating with the Nazis is publicly shamed. France, 1944. [312x480]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Japanese representatives aboard the USS Missouri during the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945. [1200x950]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A Roman bridge outside Mosul, Iraq. 1920's. (Photo by Max von Oppenheim) [714x470]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hugh Hefner, and Wilt Chamberlain at the Playboy Mansion 1977. [580x802]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
At a US base outside Munich, a soldier inspects a gallery of German girls who have spread venereal disease among the troops. 1947. [678x772]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A 22 year old bride is grabbed as she tries to kill herself by jumping out of a window. May 6, 2011 Changchun, Jilin Province, China. Photo by Li Yang. [900x600]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/NewsPorn
Samurai commiting seppuku (hara-kiri) (Japan), circa. 1880. See notes in comments. [640x465]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two members of the circus walking down a London street in 1953. Photo by Fred Romage. [1245x1760]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A mother searches for her son as former prisoners of war return to Vienna, 1947. Photo by Ernst Haas. [1280x1586]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A police car strikes a woman while responding to a riot in Beverly Hills, California. January 2, 1979. The riot was a group of Iranian students attacking the house where the wife of the Shah of Iran was staying. [800x636]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Police restrain girls trying to see the Beatles. New York, 1965. [640x429]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hugh Hefner, and Wilt Chamberlain at the Playboy Mansion 19779yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
40 years ago today. A North Vietnamese tank crashes through the gates of South Vietnam's presidential palace. Saigon, Vietnam[1280x976]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Omaha Beach, Normandy France, 1947. [699x700] (Photo by Chim (David Seymour))12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Shanghai policeman executing communists agents before the city fell to Chinese communist troops. May 16, 1949 [956x768]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground and sank. Near Santa Barbara, California. 1923.[2100x1500]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Circus freak. New York, 1948. Photo by Stanley Kubrick. [1022x1024]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Chief Petty Officer (USN) Graham Jackson cries as he plays Goin' Home on the accordion in Warm Springs, Georgia. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's flag-draped casket is passing, headed for the presidential train and its journey back to Washington, April 13, 1945. [1200x800]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Senater Edward Kennedy holds a press conference from his hospital bed two weeks before election day. He was recovering from injuries suffered in a small plane crash that killed two people six months before. September 1964. Photo by Ted Polumbaum [1000x663]7yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Confiscated pinball games are destroyed by city officials. Los Angeles City Proposition No. 3, which banned pinball, was passed in a 1939 general election. Los Angeles, May 1940. [970x615]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
President Jimmy Carter was fishing in Plains, Georgia alone when a rabbit swam towards his boat. He scared it off with a paddle. The incident made headlines, Bunny Goes Bugs: Rabbit Attacks President April 1979 [1024x329]7yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Three German civillians apply for jobs at a makeshift Allied Expeditionary Force Military Government Office, July 1945, Cologne, Germany. (Original Color Photograph) [1024x784]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
What are these balloons flying at 60,000 feet off of Costa Rica?8yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/whatisthisthing
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold confront one another shortly after each implicated the other in their joint murder of a 14 year old boy. Chicago 1924. More in comments. [2000x1540]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
57,000 German POWs are marched through Moscow to display the Red Army's dominance. 17 July 1944. [585x756] More info and link to video in comments.11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Ramones at Eric’s Club, Liverpool, England, May 1977. by Ian Dickson [2700x1910]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
“The Class the Stars Fell On,” West Point’s Class of 1915. May 3, 1915 [2495x1680]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
1899 Hand colored studio portrait of Chief Severo and Native American Utes originally taken in 1885.[3491x2624]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Protestors unveil a banner at the March 1977 National Academy of Sciences Forum on Recombinant DNA, Washington DC. [4244x2865]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Armed Cornell students emerge after taking over a building on campus in response to a cross burning. They brought guns into the building after white Delta Upsilon fraternity brothers attacked them. April 1969. [510x321]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
German submarine U-234 surrenders, May 1945 in the Atlantic. U-234 was carrying cargo and passengers from Germany to Japan when Germany surrendered. More info in comments. [1138x1500]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
University of Washington Students protest the Kent State Shootings by blocking I-5. Seattle, Washington. May 5, 1970. [640x472]9yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
During construction of the 7th Avenue subway, the street above collapsed, September 1915, New York. [1569x1222]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Salvador Dali floating with cats in a posed picture. By Philippe Halsman. 1948. [3,703 × 2,971]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A residential incinerator, Los Angeles 1957. [643x625] Most LA residents burned their own trash until it was outlawed in 1957.10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
New Year's eve at the Topaz War relocation center for Japanese Americans. Outside of Delta, Utah. December 31, 1944. [1161x862]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Photographers record the blast from an air-dropped atomic bomb at Yucca Flats, Nevada. March 31, 1953. [635x738]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The People's Liberation Army prepare to clear Tiananmen Square. June 4, 1989.[1224x930] by Charlie Cole12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
John Travolta dancing with Princess Diana at the Whitehouse, 1985. [1024x758]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hydrologic unit maps of the United States. (Like the continental divide, but subunits.) [1409x910]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/MapPorn
Polio ward full of patients in iron lungs. Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, California. 1952. [3504x2252]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Jack in the Box, 1964. From the Charles Phoenix Archive [2688x1734]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Squanderbug, a WWII British character that encouraged wasteful spending, in Redhill, January 1944. [974 x 1026]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Three images showing Allied prisoners being abused in the street by a passer-by. Occupied France, June 1944.[517x1377]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy greet a crowd during Kennedy's senatorial campaign parade through Brooklyn, New York. 1964. Photo by Walter E. Bennet [1679x1049]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Sailors aboard the USS Santa Fe watch as the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) burns following an attack by a single Japanese bomber. March 19, 1945 about 50 miles off the Japanese coast. [1024x833]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Moments after John Hinckley shot President Reagan and three others, Secret Service Agent Robert Wanko brandishes an Uzi, while two men scramble for Hinckley's dropped gun on the sidewalk. 1981 [3000x2035]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Ten Commandments playing at a drive-in theater in Utah, 1958. (By J.R. Eyerman) [1022x950]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A US Sherman M4 tank navigates an icy road past another vehicle that slid off the road. The US armored column was speeding through the Ardennes Forest to cut off German troops during the Battle of the Bulge. Photo by George Silk, December 1944[964x641]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart lead a group of Hollywood stars on a cross country trip to protest the House UnAmerican Committee's hearings on Communism in the movies. Washington, DC. October 1947. [1280x1280]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Over 50 Jazz greats. A Great Day in Harlem, 1958. [2829x1925] (by Art Kane)12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Woody Allen walking with Tamara Dobson in New York, 1971. Photo by Bruce Laurance. [964x1348]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Red Army soldiers crossing the Oder River with an anti-tank gun, 1944. By Dmitri Baltermants [2221x1468]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Great picture of Stafford's sneak by Rodger Mallison/Fort Wort Star Telegram11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/detroitlions
Chock Full O' Nuts lunch counter at Herald Square, New York. December 1954 by Alfred Eisenstaedt [867x1280]7yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
RCA Stereo 8 track tape club advertisement, 1970 from Life Magazine.10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An American girl traveling alone in post-war Italy, 1951 by Ruth Orkin. [ 800x530]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Policy required that mugshots be taken with hats on at San Quentin Prison, circa 1930. [1200x1600]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
University of Berlin students gather with torches to burn 20,000 books contrary to the German spirit. May 1933 [640x461]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Counter-revolutionaries are executed by firing squad during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, April 5, 1968. Photo by Li Zhensheng [1031x707]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Robert Shaw relaxes on the set of Jaws, while filming the scene in which Quint is eaten by the shark, 1974. [1477x1462]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Emperor Hirohito visiting war torn Yokohama, February 1946, by Alfred Eisenstaedt. [1500x1000]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Human Fly stands atop a DC-8 as it flies low over the Mojave Desert. June 19, 1976. Soon to be a Hollywood Movie. [2700x1789]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Finalists for the Miss Beautiful Ape crown, a promotion for the movie Conquest of the Planet Apes. Los Angeles, 1972. [970x615]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A licensed peddler in New York City, 1916. By Peter Strand. [1280x1689]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Col Francis I. Fenton (kneeling) at the funeral for his son PFC Michael Fenton, who was killed in action on 7 May 1945. Okinawa. [2397x2060]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Whites stoning negro to death. During the Chicago Race Riots, 1922. [694x760]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Eddie Carmel with his parents in New York, 1970. By Diane Arbus. [2048x2044]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Leila Khaled poses at a press conference in Amman, Jordan after hijacking an American TWA jet. October 1969. She tried to hijack a second jet, an Israeli El Al flight a year later. [402x480]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Fans peering into the window at Bob Dylan in a limousine, London, 1966. (By Barry Feinstein) [915x667]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Brigadier General J V Campbell addressing troops of the 137th Brigade (46th Division) from the Riqueval Bridge over the St Quentin Canal. September 29, 1918 [1024x1165]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Gunmen attack and kill Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat while he watches a military parade. October 6, 1981. Cairo, Egypt. [1600x899]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The battleship USS Alabama serves as a target during a demonstration of Army air superiority as an Army Martin twin engine bomber flies by. Chesapeake Bay, 27 September 1921. More images and link to video in comments. [1439x1000]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
One week after being relieved of his command in Korea, General Douglas MacArthur waves during a welcome-home parade in San Francisco. April 18, 1951. [970x615]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Cattle are led into a pit, where they are shot and buried to stop an epidemic of hoof and mouth disease. Mexico, 1947[928x875]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The hanging of Ah Ben, Friday, March 14, 1879. Yuba County, California. [980x1123] More info in comments.12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Norfolk and Western steam engine passing a drive through movie in Iaeger, West Virginia in 1956. By O. Winston Link[989x800]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two balloons collide at the beginning of the 1923 Gordon Bennett Cup balloon race near Brussels. [624x887] (Link to video newsreel in comments.)11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Aerial view of camouflaged Grand Central Airport near Los Angeles, California. June 1942. More information in comments [978x1322]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev eyes actress Jill St. John at a San Clemente, California party hosted by US President Richard Nixon. Jill St. John was US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's date. 27 August 1973. Photo by Wally McNamee. [700x455]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Aerial view of Las Vegas Strip, 1950. Comparable view in 2011 in comments. [580x846]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
1920-1921 Dureya, Pennsylvania high school boys basketball team in uniform. [1200x952]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Tournament of Roses Parade, New Year's Day 1893. Pasadena, California. [723x540]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Deer hunters at their camp waiting for deer to arrive. Photo by Marc St. Gil, near Leakey, Texas. November 1972. [1247x827]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Civil war embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body. Embalming became popular due to the need to ship soldier's bodies back to their home for burial. 1860's [3750x3668]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Lew Alcindor blocking a shot during a high school basketball game. 1964 [600x480]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two allied soldiers hiding alongside a building take out a German tank with a bazooka in a village in Normandy, France. July 29, 1944 [1164x1554]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Rioters climb the Omaha, Nebraska courthouse trying to get to Will Brown. Brown, a black man, was being held on the fourth floor of the courthouse. He was accused of raping a white woman.[1147x817]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Americans giving Nazi salute to young men and women marching in Nazi uniforms. Long Island, NY. 1937. [620x480]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A US Tank moves along Route 9 trying to reach US Marines surrounded at Khe Sanh during Operation Pegasus, April 1968, Vietnam. [1280x827] Photo by Larry Burrows11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Fidel Castro delivers an hours long speech after arriving in Santa Clara, Cuba shortly after Che Guevara liberated it in the final battle of the Cuban Revolution. January 1959. [624x965] Photo by Burt Glinn.12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A run on the All Night and Day Bank, corner of Spring Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles California. April 1910. [4690x2474]10yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis, Jr. at a party in Los Angeles in January 1975. [640x490]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Syrian firing squad executing German spies at Aleppo, 1942 (Photos by John Phillips) Sequence of 5 images [624x2484]13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Construction workers stop for lunch atop a building. Los Angeles version! August 1950. [970x615]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hijacked Airliners Burning in Jordan Desert, 1970 [633x421]. PLO hijacked these 3 planes, evacuated passengers, then buned the planes in front of reporters.13yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Woman Suffrage Headquarters, Ohio 1912. The 1912 measure failed, 57% to 43%. It was eventually passed in 1919. [1355x1920]11yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Elvis Presley shows President Nixon his law enforcement credentials. Presley requested this meeting because he wanted to become a federal agent at large to work against the drug problem. Washington DC. December 21, 1970. More details in comments. [650x430]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The flying Wallenda's seven man pyramid atop a high wire collapses at the State Fair Grounds Coliseum in Detroit, Michigan. Jan 30, 1962. [635x939]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The first celebrity criminals. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, somewhere in Arkansas, USA, circa 1933. [2,296 × 3,000]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Members of the US Federal Tea-tasting Board meet to determine whether imported teas are of acceptable quality and taste to sell in the US. Brooklyn, New York. 1970. [800x675]12yr ⋅ ron_leflore ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
