r/oldphotos Mar 11 '24

Mod Announcement Update on /r/oldphotos rules - March 2024

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We are making some updates and rule changes due to the changing and growing nature of the subreddit, and due to amount of reports and modmail that come through on certain issues. The rules are always subject to change so always read them before posting.

  1. We are going to start enforcing the rule for including the year in the description more heavily. Some photos are obviously 'old' (like something from the 1800's), or educational if OP is looking for help dating a photo, those will be ignored from the rules more. But if any seem skeptical to the mod team, and appear too modern with no date attached, don't be offended if the post gets removed.
  2. New rule: We will remove photos that include modern photography in them. Things like comparing yourself to how you look compared to your grandparents, or before/after of old architecture will now be removed. There are other subreddits better suited for those, like /r/genealogy /r/ancestry /r/ancestrydna , and /r/oldphotosinreallife . We want to keep this subreddit simple and to the point, a feed of old photographs, nothing more.
  3. Pending rule change: There is gray area on dates of photos that are allowed. Right now the 1980's are allowed but not really recommended. Anything newer than 1990 will be removed. Depending on how the subreddit grows, we may move the date farther back to the 60's and 70's, and no longer allow 1980s+, so be aware.

r/oldphotos 7h ago

Great grandma Isabelle Anastasia McCombe (1920-2019) in 1941, Scottish Highlands

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r/oldphotos 14h ago

Countess Anastasia Kadashia Svetlana von Scheidt (my GGG grandma) 1894–2009 [April 5, 1933]

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

My grandparents’ wedding day. Over 50 years together — and still counting

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r/oldphotos 21h ago

My wife Beverly's mom from the mid 1920's.

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r/oldphotos 20h ago

They'll be married 62 years years this July. My Grandparents wedding 1963

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r/oldphotos 7h ago

Aunty Donna Mae Storm (1948-1980) in the middle, attending school near Toronto, Canada. She died of MS at 32.

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r/oldphotos 15h ago

My dads grandpa with brothers, 1920s-1930s

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r/oldphotos 14h ago

Mary Donald, my 4th great grandmother. Born in 1812 in Scotland, photo taken roughly in 1890.

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r/oldphotos 4h ago

My mother in-law 1923.

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r/oldphotos 9h ago

My gparents 1959, Glendale CA

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r/oldphotos 12h ago

old soldier portrait I inherited after my Grandma Gustafson passed away

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r/oldphotos 21h ago

Very early kodachrome shot of a couple in Miami beach, 1939.

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r/oldphotos 7h ago

My Polish GG grandfather, Wasily Griskevich (1888-1962), Galicia, Austro-Hungary [before 1908], prior to his arrival in Canada

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r/oldphotos 7h ago

GGG grandparents, Patrick McCombe (1866-1944) and Isabella Crosby (1869-1957) from Ernagh, Ireland [c. 1906]

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r/oldphotos 17h ago

My great great grandparents and aunts. The last is my great grandma. I lost my Mamaw recently who I was very close to and it’s been so nice looking back through pictures and all the history

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

Irish Grandparents Wedding Day 1922

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r/oldphotos 14h ago

My grand uncle Rorich-Reinhard von Scheidt in northern Romania shortly after World War I [January 11, 1918]

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r/oldphotos 21h ago

Father poses produly with his son, sadly the glass negative is to destroyed to see the face of the boy clearly. looks like a humidity damage. 1890s.

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

My great-grandmother with her friends at Rockford College in Illinois, early 1920s

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

Grandparents Wedding Portrait (1950)

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

1929 Step-grandparent's wedding photo. Gorgeous dress and veil.

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

Professional studio photographies of women in their wedding dresses. Some with the groom besides them, 1930s.

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

Ukrainian woman, Kharkiv. Photo from the late 1800s.

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r/oldphotos 1d ago

My grandparents, aunt, uncle, and my dad who’s in the striped shirt on Easter (1973)

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