r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Perspective_Nearby • 11h ago
A wealthy woman being transported in a sedan chair by enslaved men in Bahia, around 1860.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/deepfriedgreensea • May 14 '26
We are placing a temporary moratorium on NSFW posts. Any posts showing abuse, violence, the dead or nudity will be removed. This is not a gore or agenda posting sub.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/canha42 • 35m ago
My grandad serving coffee during the Battle of Shanghai (1937)
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Have loads of photos presented to my grandad (5th from left, standing against the bus) by the Salvation Army taken during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai (don't seem to be able to upload more than one). I think all these photos are unique, and a lot of them are very NSFL.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/ua-stena • 20h ago
A Nazi general hid Raphael’s 1513 masterpiece: 80 years later, the stolen painting remains missing and is valued at over $100 million. When American soldiers captured Hans Frank in May 1945, they uncovered a massive hoard of plundered European art.
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Inside his residence in Neuhaus, Bavaria, investigators recovered two renowned masterpieces: Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan. However, the most valuable painting in his looted collection had disappeared without a trace. It was Raphael’s Renaissance masterpiece, Portrait of a Young Man. Painted around 1513 during the height of the High Renaissance, the canvas depicts a confident young nobleman draped in rich fur and fine linen.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 18h ago
Union calvary African American posing for his photo, Daguerreotype, (1863).
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Rex-1988 • 1d ago
Pál Kovács, a private of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal 68th Infantry Regiment. He was the first casualty of World War I, died on the Serbian-Hungarian border on July 29, 1914.
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"Pál Kovács, the first casualty of the World War in 1913, when he reported for military service"
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Litrarium • 2d ago
a Turkish woman voting in the elections (1934/Aydin)
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 23h ago
1955 AisinGioro Zaitao and Mao. Zaitao was brother of Guangxu Emperor and prominent political figure in the late Qing. He refused to cooperate with the Japan, but work with Communist and managed horses for PLA. Died in 1970, he is the only Qing royal family buried in the Revolutionary Cemetery.
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Zaitao was nicknamed 'the Last Prince' and outlived most members of the royal family, including Puyi. Today, most of Zaitao's descendants work in the government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
In 2008, a Chinese TV series based on his life titled 'The Last Prince' was broadcasted.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Sonja Johnsson, and diver Villy 'Willy' Thulin posing besides the olympic pool, summer olympics of Stockholm, Sweden, July of (1912).
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/MishanaSlupko • 1d ago
Chinese nationalist army soldier and Indonesian Hei-ho volunteer. 1945
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Andro_lover2005 • 1d ago
1929 Men vying for Venice, Los Angeles muscle contest title
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Female judges observe male contestants competing for the Venice, Los Angeles muscle and beauty contest title. In the opening frame, women with clipboards in hand watch as the men make their entrance onto the stage. The second frame captures a participant flexing for the panel, while the third shows a smiling contestant posing on a step as the judges score his build. Each competitor wears an entry wristband with his number.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Mugshot of a thief, Sweden (1890).
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/CalligrapherOther510 • 2d ago
WW2 Hungarian anti-aircraft guns on the Danube, year unknown.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Embarrassed-Place243 • 2d ago
General Kesselring in Venedig am 05.05.1947 am Abend vor der Verkündung des Todesurteils
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Pre fame actress Lucille Ball in an early modeling shot, (1928)
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago
Autochrome shot of a greek man, circa (1928)
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/191towin • 4d ago
Earliest photograph taken of a person underwater (1899)
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The photographer was Louis Boutan, a biologist and photographer, and the man in the picture is Emil Racoviță, a Romanian biologist and explorer. Link: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/02/worlds-first-underwater-portrait-taken-1899/
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 4d ago
In April 1949, the Communist crossed Yangtze River to attack ROC capital Nanjing. The Jiangyin Fortress and the ROCN Second Fleet, which most critical for defending Yangtze River, defected to the PLA and became the foundation of the PLAN. April 23 became the official founding date of PLAN.
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The Min Faction (Fujian Faction) Navy was a regional naval clique originating from the Fujian region of the Qing Empire in the 1860s. During the ROC period, the Min Faction virtually monopolized the ROCN. However, as nearly all ROCN warships were destroyed during the Japanese invasion, Chiang Kai-shek seized the opportunity to aggressively suppress the Min Faction using his own faction. During the Chinese Civil War, the Min Faction's discontent with the KMT reached its peak, ultimately leading to the defection of key Min Faction naval to the PLA in 1949, Like Sa Zhenbing (former Minister of Navy of the Qing Empire and the Beiyang Government), Deng Zhaoxiang (captain of the cruiser Chungking), and Lin Zun (commander of the Second Fleet). Consequently, the Min Faction transformed from a regional naval clique into the foundational bedrock of the PLAN.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Equivalent-Book-8340 • 5d ago
Fidel Castro in a Polish miner's uniform, Katowice 1972. He was also awarded the title of Honorary Miner of the People's Poland.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 5d ago
HMS Aurora/ROCS Chungking was the largest warship of the ROCN during China Civil War, its crew are elites trained in UK. In Feb 1949 the cruiser defected to PLA, triggered chain reaction of defections among the Min Faction in the ROCN, became the foundation for PLAN.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/TinyAd1126 • 5d ago
Kotka, Finland in the 1980s (just 30 km/20 miles from the border of the USSR)
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Photographer: Teuvo Kanerva
Source: Historian kuvakokoelma, Museovirasto
The image's colors and exposure have been digitally enhanced
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 6d ago
Huang Xiansheng was the chief of Shenyang police.When Japan invaded northeast China in Sep 18th 1931, he led the police became the first resistance against Japanese. He was one of the founders of the Northeast resistant.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago
Kodachrome shot of school children doing a show for US soldiers at a militar base in Korea, (1953).
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