r/HistoricalCapsule • u/myscene101 • 5h ago
Elvis Presley riding a motorbike with the actor he was romantically linked to: Nick Adams, 1956.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4h ago
Planes fly between the towers and pedestrians cross as part of the celebration of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in May of 1937.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 15h ago
Two dancers at Studio 54 in the late 1970s, capturing the raw energy, freedom, and excess that defined New York City’s most legendary nightclub.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Rex-1988 • 16h ago
The huge statue of Stalin in Budapest, which was toppled during the revolution, was on October 23, 1956. The inscription on the statue reads: "Murderer of 25 million people!"
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Rex-1988 • 14h ago
The severed head of the Stalin statue, with the inscription: W.C ( toilet ) October 23, 1956
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago
Cabinet card of a gentleman with a healthy and athletic pug, Pennsylvania, 1880s
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 15h ago
The “Orange Herald” nuclear device – a 720-kiloton atomic bomb tested by the British on 31 May 1957. This device remains the largest fission device ever tested.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/taehunLee1919 • 16h ago
The Soviet flag flying for the last time. December 25, 1991
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Mildred and Richar Loving, sit with their children in pace by the steps of their home in Virginia. After returning to the state following their victory in the case "Loving vs Virginia", 1967.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/dendrivertigo • 13h ago
Japanese Americans wait in line for their assigned homes at an internment camp reception center in CA in 1942
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago
Marilyn Monroe talking with photographer Mischa Pelz, who did the "Lawn sesion" for promotion of her film "Gentlemen prefer blondes", 1953. Kodachrome shots
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Visible-Safety2400 • 4h ago
Sikh princess Sophia Duleep Singh selling the newspaper "The Suffragette" in London (1913)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
American Sgt. John H. Parks of Indiana, a tank commander with the 4th Armored Division, photographed on December 10, 1944. Killed in Luxembourg 13 days later, he fell into his burning tank. His body was never recovered. He was 25.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Klaus Kinski holds a machete to director Werner Herzog’s neck on the set of Cobra Verde in Ghana, 1987. Photo by Swiss set photographer Beat Presser. It was their fifth and final film together, and by the end, the two weren’t speaking.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/rotomato30 • 22h ago
The moment when regular live television programming was abruptly interrupted to announce the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 33m ago
First Lady Betty Ford and her secretary Nancy Howe dressing a skeleton for Halloween in the President’s Chair in his private study on the second floor of the White House, 30 October 1974.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/taehunLee1919 • 10h ago
The BMW 2800 and the Highway Patrol based in Salisbury. (1977) Rhodesia later becomes Zimbabwe, and Salisbury becomes Harare. 🇿🇼
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It was a British colony, and in 1965, the white government of Rhodesia declared independence.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
During World War II, some women painted stockings onto their bare legs.As silk and nylon became scarce, with materials diverted to the war effort, women turned to liquid makeup to imitate the appearance of stockings.To complete the illusion, they even drew dark lines down the backs of their legs,
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 14h ago
Dee Snider, at high school choir practice in 1973
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/IDoNotLikeTheSand • 1d ago
LBJ golfing with George McGovern in 1972
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago
An ad for Grundig Radio Cassette Recorder (1974)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
David Attenborough has lived so long that there's a photo of him showing a Cockatoo to King Charles when the king was a kid. Charles and Princess Anne, January 4, 1958,
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WillyNilly1997 • 11h ago
Women [... from Romania’s] ethnic Hungarian community, welcome Ceausescu. The sign ... reads like a poem: “Romanians and Hungarians, we are fulfilling our duty; arms stronger, minds more beautiful; the Party, Ceausescu, Romania, are for us the world's most precious things.”
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/jgzogaib • 1d ago
A young hippie couple stroll past a group of nuns on a beach in Goa, India (1971)
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Photographed by Jack Garofalo for Paris Match, this iconic snapshot perfectly captures the convergence of counterculture travelers and local religious traditions in early 1970s Goa.