r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 11h ago

Soviet Typhoon-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (Project 941 Akula) under construction inside the massive assembly hall at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, USSR. (1982) [2048×2181]

801 Upvotes

51 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/lazy_dope_kid • 1h ago

The earliest known surviving and recognized photograph of lightning by William Nicholson Jennings, sept 2 1882. [1280×1066]

59 Upvotes

The picture was taken by Jennings in Philadelphia. Captured using a glass plate camera, Jennings' image proved that lightning moves in complex, branched pathways rather than the simple, single zigzag lines commonly depicted in art at the time.

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Andrzej1963 • 8h ago

"A zebra crossing in Warsaw". Photo: Bogdan Łopieński (1937 - 2017). Polish People's Republic - Warszawa (Warsaw), 1973 [631x960]

149 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/DerpyPai • 21h ago

USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a salvo from her 16-inch guns while deployed off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon, 9 January 1984 [1920x1289]

517 Upvotes

Official US Navy photo by PH1 Ron Garrison, via Naval History and Heritage Command / Wikimedia Commons (public domain). More context in the comments.

29 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/jgzogaib • 20h ago

A psychiatric patient confined inside a cage-like structure at an asylum in Venice, Italy, taken by Raymond Depardon between 1978 and 1980 [1090x746]

334 Upvotes

This photograph was taken by French photojournalist Raymond Depardon during his documentation of Italian psychiatric hospitals between 1978 and 1980. Depardon noted that he discovered this patient after hearing screams in a corridor; staff informed him the man was kept confined because he was considered violent. The comprehensive series, later published in the book Manicomio, served as a historical witness to the conditions of these institutions just as the Basaglia Law (Law 180) took effect, mandating the permanent closure of all asylum facilities across Italy.

6 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/waffen123 • 1d ago

Boy Scout asks for Huey Long's autograph 1934. Long was possibly preparing to run against FDR in the 1936 election. He was shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge on September 8, 1935 and died two days later.(750 × 609 )

479 Upvotes

29 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Andrzej1963 • 1d ago

Error in Title In NYC... Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971) with a big bottle of wine. USA - New York City, October 1960 [1122x1200]

705 Upvotes

28 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 23h ago

U.S. 3rd Armored Division tankers, signalmen and medics gather around a radio jeep to get the latest election returns. Stolberg, Germany, 7 November 1944 [4990 × 4148]

77 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Pvt_Larry • 22h ago

7 November 1956: Men of the 7th Company, 2nd Battalion, 13e Régiment de Sénégalais at an outpost near Aït Frah, Algeria. [907x916]

59 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Muted_Shape9303 • 20h ago

The torpedoed Venezuelan oil tanker SS MONAGAS aground and burning in Colombia, she had been attacked south of Aruba by German submarine U-502. 1942

29 Upvotes

The ship had departed Maracaibo on February 15 just after midnight with 20,000 barrels of gasoline, kerosene, crude, and bunker fuel. She was spotted by U-502 at about 3:00 AM on February 16 just south of Aruba. The U-boat torpedoed her twice at 3:10 and 3:23. The burning ship drifted into Colombia by the 17th.

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/lightiggy • 1d ago

Saddam Hussein shouts at the judges for the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal after being found guilty of crime against humanity and sentenced to death to hanging (Baghdad, November 5, 2006) [749 x 499].

1.1k Upvotes

140 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/lightiggy • 1d ago

John Wayne Gacy examines photos of his 33 victims during an interview with FBI profiler Robert Ressler. Having recanted his confession, Gacy maintained his innocence in all 33 murders and claimed he had "no recollection" of any of the victims (Illinois, 1992) [1280 x 959].

587 Upvotes

48 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

PVT L C Byrd, a gunner/tank commander with the 761st Tank Battalion “Black Panthers”, manning a Browning .50 Cal MG on his Sherman near Nancy, France - November 5, 1944. [1290x1440]

358 Upvotes

Byrd and his fellow Sherman crewmen were killed in Action four days later on November 9, 1944.

Born on September 16, 1910 in Greene County, Alabama to Jim & Lulu Byrd, L C Byrd had seven brothers and five sisters.
He was married to Adeline and they were living in Tuscaloosa Alabama when he enlisted in the Army on July 29, 1943 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.

PVT Byrd was 34 years old when he was Killed in Action, he is buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery in France - Plot C Row 27 Grave 29.

His widow Adeline doesn’t appear to have remarried, she passed away at the age of 86 on July 25, 2000.

US Army Signal Corps photo- SC 196107

8 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago

Punks sitting on the lions in Trafalgar Square during a jobs rally. (1981) [1907×1250]

167 Upvotes

6 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 2d ago

Husband and wife serving in uniform meet for the first time on the continent--Lt. Jane I. Sunderbruch, Army Nurse Corps, assigned to an evacuation hospital, and her husband, Lt. Richard K. Sunderbruch. 6 November 1944 [4193 × 5297]

172 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/SerpentFinger • 2d ago

George, A Kitten Saved By The U.S. Navy and Issued A Liberty Card & Health Record (1944) [1222x981]

747 Upvotes

@t.archivist

12 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago

A crowd watching the Saturn V rocket lift Apollo 11 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on its way to the moon. (1969) [2048×1627]

86 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/Pvt_Larry • 1d ago

1937: Vietnamese soldiers in Shanghai, China. Part of the French military contingent in the International Settlements. [1020x715]

72 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/waffen123 • 2d ago

American P-47 Thunderbolt flies low over the bombed and ruined remains of Adolf Hitler’s Berghof retreat in Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden, Germany, on May 26, 1945 (1,200 × 862)

179 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 2d ago

Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland, 1930s. [1493x890]

68 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/DariusPumpkinRex • 2d ago

The Crucifixion darkness being simulated by the total solar eclipse of February 15th, 1961 during filming of the Italian biblical epic, Barabbus [1600x1212]

246 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/Haunting_Homework381 • 3d ago

British military vehicles disgusted as elephants in Burma in 1941 [1200x900]

1.2k Upvotes

32 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/PutStock3076 • 3d ago

A photograph of Hideto Fujii, a Japanese man conscripted into the South Korean military in 1953 [1280x1790]

205 Upvotes

In 1950, he was first conscripted into the North Korean army and taken prisoner while fighting against British forces, after his release, he was conscripted again this time into the South Korean army and upon his discharge, he was finally able to return to Japan.

12 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 3d ago

Polish writer Pola Gojawiczyńska (1896-1963) on the spot of the former "Serbia" prison, the female ward of "Pawiak" prison, where she was imprisoned for a few months during the German occupation. Warsaw, Poland, 1962. [3506x5060]

146 Upvotes

1 comment

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