One of the two Riace Bronzes discovered by an amateur scuba diver is brought out of the Ionian sea. Calabria, Italy. August 1972. [300 x300]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Punt guns were used for duck hunting at the turn of the last century. A single shot could kill up to 50 waterfowl resting on the surface of a pond or lake. ca 1900. [1024 x 790]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A police photograph of German Olympic athlete Dora Ratjen who had been arrested at a train station on suspicion of being a man in a dress. Magdeburg. Germany. September 21, 1938. [367 x 600]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Before alarm clocks there were knocker-upper's. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. Limehouse Fields. London. [500 x 674]. Undated. Photograph from Philip Davies' Lost London: 1870 - 1945.12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Queen having a giggle at Prince Philip's ceremonial uniform12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/unitedkingdom
Dr John B. Watson and Rosalie Raynor studying the grasp reflex of a newborn baby. Baltimore. ca 1916-1920. [450 x 428]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as thousands of East Germans move into West Berlin on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall. November 1989. [669 x 1000]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier. Photograph by Paul Thompson. Somewhere on the Western Front. ca 1917. [500 x 470]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hats in the Garment District. New York. 1930. By Margaret Bourke-White [1280 x812]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930. [500 x 419]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The aftermath of World War II. A shop window in London. 1946. [640 x 620]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Famous architects dressed as their buildings at the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects annual ball. New York. 1931. [628 x 485]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Bike messengers leave the White House after the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. [500 x 405]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist, at the women's right to vote march on Fifth Avenue in New York City. October 23, 1917 [510 x 621]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers. After realizing a woman was running Boston marathon organizer Jock Semple went after Kathrine Switzer. Other runners blocked him and she went on to finish the race. 1967.[1280 x 859]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
People walking on the chairs at the Maisons-Laffitte racecourse to escape the river Seine flood. Paris. 1924. [1200 x 922]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ. [650 x 943]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
On December 26, 1971, fifteen Vietnam Veterans Against the War occupied the Statue of Liberty for two days. [250 x 348]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning POW's. Vienna. 1947. Photograph by Ernst Haas. [433 x 550]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Teenagers arrested for drag racing. Lennox Police station. Los Angeles. September 10, 1952. [552 x 720]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of home on the blackboard, Poland, 1948. By David Seymour. [450 x 616] 12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
I don't like Mondays. Brenda Ann Spencer in police custody after the Cleveland Elementary School shooting. January 1979. [244 x 369]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Rose Valland was a member of the French Resistance and an employee of the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. She kept records of the art plundered by Nazi officers and was instrumental in the post war return of countless stolen pieces. 1934. [261 x 345]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Caroline Kennedy walks on ahead while her father, JFK, carries her doll. January 1, 1963.11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Paratroopers over Moscow. Photograph by Yakov Rumkin. ca 1940's. [478 x 750]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hand to hand combat training. Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, September 25, 1942. [556 x 700]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A boy showing off his new Mohawk hairdo to his friends. 195112yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Caroline Kennedy walks on ahead while her father, JFK, carries her doll. January 1, 1963. [736 x 937]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
American Flying Fortress crew member with his lucky mascot tucked into his flight suit. Bomber Command. England. 1942. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. [317 x 493]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
On his seventieth birthday, handcuffed and shackled, Jack LaLanne tows seventy people on seventy rowboats for one mile across Long Beach Harbor. 1984. [628 x 418]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a lumber truck. Los Angeles, 1926. [554 x 435]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Coal miner Frank Tugend cared for in the last years of his life by his Grandsons. From the 1976 book Gramp [480 x 720]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HumanPorn
Every man, a poster at Camp Hood. Camp Hood, Texas. January 1943. [474 x 600]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Child in a tiger suit. Peking, China. 1917. Photograph by Sidney D. Gamble. [625 x 785]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Crew member William F. Howard on board the Antarctic research vessel R.R.S Discovery. December 28, 193011yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Princess Elizabeth of York shakes hands with an old soldier. ca 1929. London. [447 x 566]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Private Mary Greyeyes, Cree, from Muskeg Lake, Cree Nation, being blessed by her native Chief prior to leaving for service in the CWAC. September 29, 1942. [290 x 580]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Army ROTC cadet. Davenport High School, Iowa. 1953. [500 x 722]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Werfel, a 6 year old orphan from Austria has just been given his first pair of new shoes by the American Red Cross. 1946. [737 x1024]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Disneyland closed in observance of national mourning. November 23, 1963. [320 x 400]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A protester is struck by police during the Justice For Janitors demonstration in Century City. Los Angeles. 1990. [800 x 635]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of St Lo. France. 1944 [304 x 294]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Girls dancing at the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park in 196911yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A moment of joy between siblings at the Ajiep feeding center in southern Sudan. Tom Stoddard. 1998. [964 x 868]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HumanPorn
An East German soldier helps a boy over the barbed wire on the East-West border. Date unknown. [1148 x1600].12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
During the missile crisis, Castro ordered all Cubans to defend the capital. Dressed as usual in skirt, high heels and with hair curlers anticipating an evening out, this young woman with gun guards a bank. October 1962. Photograph by Goksin Sipahioglu. [500 x 622]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to a tape recording from Vietnam sent by his son-in-law Capt. Charles Robb, a Marine corp company commander. July 31st 1968. [419 x 599]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A young man tied to a pickaxe in a forced labor camp. Early 1930's. Texas. [615 x 803]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
First Class passengers arriving at Ellis Island. 1907. 367 x 245]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Walt and Ruth Disney. Marceline, Missouri. ca 1906. [500 x 700]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Dinosaurs on the Hudson being transported by barge to the New York World's fair. 1964. [800 x 509]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
French women working in an ammunition factory. France. 1917. [416 x 599]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two little boys in Paris, 1962. By Christopher Stromholm [500 x 666]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HumanPorn
A wounded AIF soldier is welcomed home. Sydney, NSW. 1919. [640 x 822] 12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A crew member is rescued from the French fishing trawler Jeanne Gougy which ran aground at Lands End. 12 men, including the Skipper lost their lives. November 3rd, 1962. Cornwall [500 x 598]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Thora Yeager skates around a giant frying pan with slabs of bacon tied to her feet before 7,200 eggs are added to cook a record breaking omelet. Chehalis, Washington. July 24th 1931. [403 x 500]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Commander Attilio Gatti with two pygmies and the gorilla he had killed. Belgian Congo. ca 1930 [481 x 639]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A civil rights protester is detained at the Los Angeles Federal building protest. 1965. [872 x 1280]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Boy at The Village for Troubled Children. Stockholm, May 1949. [475 x 600]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HumanPorn
A cleanup liquidator, pushes a baby in a carriage who was found during the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The infant had been left in an abandoned house in the village of Tatsenki; the worker found the child when he was measuring radiation levels. April 1986. [435 x 577]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Fourth of July weekend. Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, in the 1920's [639 x 508]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A couple supporting Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign. San Diego, California. [441 x 675]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Timothy Evans is escorted by police to Notting Hill police station. Evans was wrongfully executed in 1950 for the murder of his wife and baby daughter. In 1966 he was granted a posthumous royal pardon. December 1949. [512 x 688]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Queen and Prince Philip meet the Oba of Benin on the 1956 royal tour of Nigeria [516 x 720]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Mrs Gloria Richardson pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside. Maryland, 1963 12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Baseball player Bobby Grich pours beer over Richard Nixon after the Angels win their first ever division title. Los Angeles. September 1979. [540 x 580]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S. Sgt. William Best of Brooklyn, NY meets 19-year old Joseph Guttman, whom he liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp and adopted, New York 1948. [169 x 175] 12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Nathaniel Prentice Banks. 25th Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jockey Nate Hubbard was flipped from the saddle when Sweetwater Oak stumbled. He clung on to his horse's neck and they completed the race without Hubbard's feet touching the ground. 2/3/1989. Golden Gate Fields. [600 x 478]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Brothers, Arlie and Walter Nobles, strolling down Central Avenue in Hot Springs. 194711yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A brother and sister from Holland, photographed by Augustus Francis Sherman, an amateur photographer and clerk on Ellis Island. ca 1905 [522 x 760]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
An Ulster family caught in the rioting. Northern Ireland. 1971. Photograph by Clive Limpkin. [920 x 610]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Muhammad Ali trains for his fight against West German Jurgen Blin with his daughters in tow. 1971.11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Hitler's trousers after the assasination attempt on July 20th, 1944. Wolf's Lair, Rastenburg, East Prussia. [513 x 800]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Bruce Savage and his cousin take the elevator for the first time. Salt Lake City. Utah. May 1948. [405 x 493]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Sixteen year old Peaches Browning is helped into her coat by her husband, real estate developer, Edward West Browning. New York. 1926. [500 x651]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Protesters scream as James Brock pours muriatic acid into his Whites Only pool at the Monson Motor Lodge to get them out. June 18, 1964. St Augustine, Florida. [317 x480] (x post from pics)12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
For the 50th anniversary celebrations of The Golden Gate Bridge 300,000 people crossed on foot causing the bridge to sag by 7 feet. May 24, 1987. [530 x 918]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two disabled soldiers on the grounds of the 4th London General Hospital. The original caption reads Are we downhearted?. ca 1916. [571 x 800]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish author of fairy tales, in Copenhagen. 1862. [693 x 1024]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Madam C.J. Walker. The first woman in America to become a millionaire by her own endeavors. Date unknown. [643 x 491]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A lone British soldier stands up to his knees in spent shell cases. France. ca 1916. [500 x 742]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
J.D. Salinger fending of a photographer. Cornish. New Hampshire. ca 1986. [460 x 288]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
To cut down on the cost of grass cutting President Wilson kept a flock of sheep on the grounds of the White House throughout World War I. ca 1918. [453 x 299]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
15 year old Hitler Youth, Hans Georg Henke, taken prisoner by the Ninth United States Army, Giessen, Germany. 03.29.1945. Image size: 592 x 80012yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Boys riding the rails after the liberation of Holland. 1945. [500 x 723]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Wanted Urgently A Strong Rope To Hang Myself. 1932. [434 x 700]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two brothers. It was Christmas 1963 when the East German Government agreed to open the wall for the first time so that relatives could meet. Checkpoint Charlie. Berlin. Photograph by Ian Berry [480 x 317]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Recruits with their mattresses tied to them to serve as life preservers. Newport Naval Station. Rhode Island. 1917. [1024 x 827]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Studio portrait by traveling photographer Hugh Mangum. [500 x 660]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HumanPorn
Soldiers scramble for safety after a spark ignites an observation balloon being deflated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 1919. [640 x 524]11yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Captured British commandos from the Operation Chariot raid on St. Nazaire dry dock. The German's are unaware that HMS Campbeltown, rammed into the drydock by the commandos, is packed with explosives and will explode shortly. March 28, 1942. [800 x 538]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
M.K.Gandhi. Attorney. In front of his Law Office. Johannesburg, South Africa. 1905. [480 x 382]12yr ⋅ surrenderdorothy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
