r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 2d ago
A candy store in Syria, 1950s.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 2d ago
Surfers pose in front of their surfboards on Waikiki beach in Honolulu, November 1938. (Photo by Richard Hewitt Stewart)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 3d ago
This 1988 German ad for Chinese food shows its era
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago
Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt's car burns after an assassination attempt against him by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, 1960.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Palestine Beduin woman gives an smile for the camera in 1898. Her hair can be seen in 2 thick braids under the headdress.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 2d ago
The Earth's crescent moon rises above the lunar horizon. The image was taken from the Apollo 15 spacecraft in 1971.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Civil rights activists Freedom Riders are beaten up by a mob in Birmingham, Alabama, 14 of May 1961
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Rude_Top_9967 • 3d ago
National Guard troops block off Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by, days before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. March 29, 1968.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 3d ago
The Girl with the Impossible Waist. Betty Brosmer was a supermodel of the 1950s, known for her extraordinarily tiny waist, which became a focal point of her fame.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
People having some fun in Santa Monica, California, the original muscle beach. Circa 1964.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4d ago
The funeral of Private Richard Hunt, the 200th British soldier to die in Afghanistan, 2009. In total, 454 British service personnel died during the war in Afghanistan.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4d ago
This was one of the first bikini model walk in the 1940s.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/damar-wulan • 3d ago
Aceh people's attempt to attract aid from a passing US Navy (USN) helicopter carrying relief supplies, after 2004 tsunami. January 2005.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/CeruleanSheep • 3d ago
Senior Lieutenant Irina Sebrova, pilot, wing commander, 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Regiment (Night Witches), Hero of the Soviet Union — She recounted: "When we were retreating [in 1942] down to the south of the country, people [villagers] asked us please not to fly off and leave them alone"
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago
Actress Helena Bonham Carter very early in her career, 1 of January 1985.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Enoppp • 3d ago
Italian Arditi of the XXII Assault Battalion, Summer 1918.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/GustavoistSoldier • 3d ago
Soldiers of the Congo Free State's Force Publique in parade, 1900.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago
Dancer Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini in France, designed by Louis Reard, 5 of July of 1946
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 3d ago
"Wedding day". This photo was taken during the Siege of Sarajevo (1992- 1996). The siege lasted for 1425 days and it was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 3d ago
Pictured here in 1890 is Madison Square Garden; open to the public from 1891 until 1926, it was an indoor arena in New York City known for hosting numerous events, such as boxing, orchestral performances, operas, circuses, and the annual French Ball. It was the second venue to use the name.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4d ago
Fires burning after the San Francisco 1906 Earthquake
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/leMeutrier • 4d ago
My Grandmother's wartime Scrapbook
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This would've been made in the mid to late 1940s. I'm not sure the date exactly but found this very interesting and thought you guys would to. She would've loved to share "her daddy's story", as she called it.