HistoryPhotos

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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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American naturalist William Beebe in a deep-sea bathysphere, 1930s? (infosec.pub)
submitted 25 seconds ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985 (infosec.pub)
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American pilot Gail Halvorsen throws candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift, 1949 (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 minutes ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Pigs do fly (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 hours ago by RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/post/539923

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore-Brabazon,_1st_Baron_Brabazon_of_Tara#Pioneer_aviator

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Solidarity in history, Yugoslavia, WW2, 1941 (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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British blacksmith on an anti-slavery patrol boat removing leg irons from a freed slave off the coast of Mozambique, 1907 (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949 (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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American professor standing beside two massive guards of the personal retinue of the Maharaja of Kashmir, 1903 (infosec.pub)
submitted 15 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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'Motormat' drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, USA, 1949 (infosec.pub)
submitted 15 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Female students at Dhaka University (now-Bangladesh, then-Pakistan) protesting for Bengali language rights, 1953 (infosec.pub)
submitted 15 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Testing a prototype football helmet, USA, 1912 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Japanese man in archaic military costume for the Toshogu shrine festival, 1926 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Stockholm on 'H-Day', when Sweden swapped from driving on the left-side of the road to the right, 1967 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Traditional ballet dancers in Cambodia, dressed as stylized soldiers, 1921 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Hitching a trolley ride in Brazil, 1940? (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Captain Nieves Fernandez, Filipino guerilla leader and former school teacher, demonstrates to a US soldier how she used her long knife to kill Japanese occupying forces, WW2, 1944 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Anti-Air Searchlights at the Rock of Gibraltar, WW2, 1942 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Nazis wading through ice-cold water in Russia, WW2, 1942 (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Nonlethal sporting duelist firing wax bullets, New York, 1909 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Dancer from modern-day Benin in religious costume, 1930 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Bedouin nomad of Sudanese descent, photo taken in modern-day Jordan, 1918 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Ship's Cat 'Tiddles' on the HMS Victorious, WW2, 1942 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Heikki Kaljunen, an officer of the Red Guard in the Finnish Civil War, in a very nice fur cap, 1918 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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Turkish lemonade seller, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1913 (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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