r/HistoryPorn • u/Haunting_Homework381 • 7h ago

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posing as a mummy while in Cairo in 1896 [1200x900]

514 Upvotes

30 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 8h ago

US soldiers preparing to leave Vietnam to return to the US during the Vietnam War. (1973) [3011×2122]

456 Upvotes

46 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/SerpentFinger • 11h ago

[Colorized] The Cliff House in San Francisco, CA (1902) [1121 x 888]

441 Upvotes

Source: IG @historycolored / @jordanjlloydhq

Taken from Ocean Beach.

24 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 7h ago

A photo of Adolf Hitler next to the Bavarian Gate, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. (1924) [1200×806]

257 Upvotes

54 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 14h ago

Beggar from Mogilany, Poland, 1932. [800x1015]

146 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Blood_AndGuts • 19h ago

South African soldiers posing with a captured Italian flag in 1941 during the East African Campaign [342x380]

128 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/20thCenturyBoyLaLa • 12h ago

Computer scientist Ivan Sutherland and the "Sword of Damocles" in 1968. A headed-mounted 3-D 'augmented reality device,' the "Sword" is considered an early version of Virtual Reality. Sutherland developed it with the help of students while teaching at Harvard University. [600 x 781]

79 Upvotes

The device was so heavy that it needed to be mounted to the ceiling while the graphics were limited to wire frame rooms.

18 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ismaeil-de-paynes • 23h ago

Egyptian president Abdel Nasser with Imam Muhammad AL-Badr of North Yemen (Middle), Months later President Nasser would support a republican overthrow against Imam AL-Badr (1962 [650x490]

52 Upvotes

1 comment

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