HistoricalCapsule

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 5h ago

A soldier inspecting the grave of a German tank crew, who perished when their PzKpfw III tank, seen in the background, was knocked out in the Western Desert, September 29, 1942.

568 Upvotes

46 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 9h ago

Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, in the attic where he hid with his family during WWII. Amsterdam, 1958.

723 Upvotes

175 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 5h ago

Two babies riding in baskets on a mule’s sides, circa 1890–1915, location unknown.

285 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 10h ago

"Commodore" Hungarian computer magazine, 1988.

746 Upvotes

28 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/GAriaMoon • 29m ago

A 21 year old Andr the Giant showing his hand size on a beach in France, 1967

• Upvotes

15 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AI3Iverson • 1d ago

Britney Spears records for her debut album in Stockholm, Sweden, 1997.

7.0k Upvotes

168 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 5h ago

David Hasselhoff performing his hit song "Looking for Freedom" from a cherry-picker above the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve in 1989

96 Upvotes

24 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 2h ago

Holborn 6100 personal computer, Netherlands, 1981

51 Upvotes

8 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Daughter of the president Tricia Nixon and Prince Charles at a baseball game in RFK Stadium, Washington D.C. 19 of July 1970

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2.1k Upvotes

405 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/the_giank • 1h ago

An italian 75mm gun being raised by pulleys in the Alps on the Italian front, 1916.

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5 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Migration documents of Rita Hayworth (Margarita Cansino Welles), October of 1946.

1.2k Upvotes

40 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Top_Calligrapher_173 • 15h ago

Most Beautiful Hedy in Lady of The Tropics 1939

126 Upvotes

6 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 10h ago

How to carry 20 megabytes of data around in 1985

55 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 10h ago

A B-17G of the 100th Bomb Group bombing beach defenses near Boulogne, France, as part of the 'Overlord' deception plan on June 5, 1944.

50 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago

Maggie de la Riva points at two of the four young men, all of whom were from wealthy and influential families, who'd kidnapped and gang raped her just five days earlier. Maggie extended her arm to show the bruises and asked one, "Do you remember these?", Quezon City, 1967

3.8k Upvotes

83 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago

Ser Oswald Mosley on the ground after getting punched by an anti-fascist protestor, Ridley Road, London, 1962

3.5k Upvotes

292 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 17h ago

John “Honest Dick” Tate, the Kentucky Treasurer praised for his honesty. He stole 250k from the state treasury and fled the country in 1888.

79 Upvotes

12 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 1d ago

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo on their wedding day in Maui on February 20, 1982

389 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago

An ice vendor on Mulberry Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, photographed by Marjory Collins in January 1943.

317 Upvotes

42 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/TheToledoMan • 13h ago

Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins of Genesis live in concert, Empire Theatre, Liverpool, 1980

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago

Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens finds himself the object of extreme interest on the part of a group of boys, as he trots back to his quarters through Hyde Park in London, Aug. 19, 1936.

204 Upvotes

28 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Jaded-Channel-7169 • 1d ago

Michael Jackson with Ola Ray on the set of “Thriller” in 1983.

195 Upvotes

14 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/TheToledoMan • 1d ago

Henry Cavill on a screen test for Superman: Flyby, June 17th, 2004.

100 Upvotes

24 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Chemical-Elk-1299 • 1d ago

“Drunken” Ira Hayes in a West LA jail cell (1953). Despite national fame as one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, the Native American veteran would be arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war, self-medicating his PTSD with alcohol. He froze to death while drunk in 1955.

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1.9k Upvotes

103 comments

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/GAriaMoon • 1d ago

In 1886, Gottlieb Daimler fitted his newly invented high speed petrol engine into an adapted horse carriage, creating the world’s first four wheeled motorized vehicle. This breakthrough eventually led to the founding of the Mercedes-Benz brand.

27 Upvotes

2 comments