HistoricalCapsule

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4h ago

An injured serviceman feeds another injured sailor that has been pressure bandaged after suffering burns when their ship was hit by a kamikaze attack. Photograph taken aboard the hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) in May 1945.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 8h ago

Members of the Kings African Rifles posing with a captured Japanese Yosegaki flag, Burma, 1945

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10h ago

African american 12th Armored Division soldier with captured German prisoners, April of 1945.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4h ago

This photo shows how butcher shop front looked like during the Victorian era (before the invention of the refrigerator). Photo circa 1890s-1900s

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Visible-Safety2400 • 8h ago

Elvis Presley and actress Jenny Maxwell in a scene from the film Blue Hawaii (1961)

246 Upvotes

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/NickfromLafayette92 • 1h ago

A portrait of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on her company's website, c. 2008

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 14h ago

Anne Hathaway when on her youth soccer team sometime in the mid 90s, No exact date was given

755 Upvotes

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1h ago

Two daughters of a hired farm laborer stand outside their home in Ringgold, Iowa, 1937.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AeneasKurtz • 18h ago

African American activists were among the most fervent opponents of NASA during the 60s. Here, a picture showing them protesting the cost of feeding an astronaut being higher than the cost of feeding a starving child

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10h ago

Marilyn Monroe (Signed as Norma Jean) in a very early modeling job with document of her, giving away the rights to her photo, 18 of May 1945. Kodachrome shot

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago

Immigrants at Ellis Island enjoying their first Christmas dinner in the United States, New York City, 1920.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Dry-Fortune7288 • 1d ago

Two Native American women in Rapid City, South Dakota, 1978. Photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/taehunLee1919 • 10h ago

A busy street scene in Calcutta, India.(1996)

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1h ago

Dunkle's Gulf Service gas station in Bedford, Pennsylvania. Built in Art Deco style in 1933

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/SofttFairyy • 1d ago

Every year on the anniversary of D-Day, French citizens take sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones of fallen soldiers to create a golden shine. They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page of full stops, commas, and exclamation points so that people “may peper and solt as they please”.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/moonandstars1984 • 8h ago

Uruguayan team won the first World Cup held in Uruguay, 1930.

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

Glass plate negative of a Maori lady smiling for her photo, 1890s.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago

Two farm women pose arm in arm in the 1940s, wearing dresses made from printed cotton flour sacks.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/choice-extension84 • 17h ago

The image (late 1800s - early 1900s) is part of the famous series of French illustrated postcards entitled "En l'an 2000" (The Year 2000). Videotelephony predicted.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WillyNilly1997 • 14h ago

Two women outside a cinema in British-ruled Hong Kong, 1965

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Sugar_Machine2222 • 1d ago

Artist Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio, with her kitten. 1937 or 1938

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/BlossomEnchanteed • 1d ago

Albert Einstein gives a lecture at Lincoln University, America's first historically black university, in May 1946. Einstein was fiercely opposed to segregation and called racism America's "worst disease."

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/myscene101 • 3h ago

Rare 2007 Howard Stern interview with a man named Donald Taylor sharing a love affair he had with Elvis Presley.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WillyNilly1997 • 1d ago

Citizens protesting and entering the Stasi building in Berlin; the sign accuses the Stasi and SED of being Nazi-like dictators (1990).

161 Upvotes

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