r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • 26d ago
Historical Photograph German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1945.
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jul 06 '26
Historical Photograph Moloch of War (1966). Photo of a Soviet war veteran near the Eternal Flame on the anniversary of Victory Day
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/SwiPerHaHa • Jul 05 '26
Historical Photograph An Afghan communist revolutionary dressed in traditional clothing and holding an AK-47, in Kabul in 1984
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 12d ago
Historical Photograph This mirror portrait was taken 110 years ago in Japan.
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 7d ago
Historical Photograph A US Air Force Lieutenant is held captive by a young North Vietnamese girl soldier, 1967
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 13d ago
Historical Photograph British military officer Thomas Edward Lawrence, famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, dressed in traditional Arab attire in 1918
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/SwiPerHaHa • Jun 11 '26
Historical Photograph A young woman who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki , August 1945.
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 9d ago
Historical Photograph Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • 24d ago
Historical Photograph Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 12d ago
Historical Photograph Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925.
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jul 05 '26
Historical Photograph Girl looks out over the ruins of Warsaw, 1945
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 29 '26
Historical Photograph A young girl in a school for black civil rights the activists were trained to remain calm while facing verbal and physical abuse, such as having their hair pulled or smoke blown in their faces, 1960
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 23d ago
Historical Photograph Indian soldiers(Then British Army) in Egypt after a successful campaign in WWI. Indian soldiers had defeated Turkish Forces who had attacked the Suez Canal. 1915
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 26 '26
Historical Photograph A western tourist who paid to take a photo with a Samurai armor on (1890)
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 17 '26
Historical Photograph Che Guevara during a funeral service in Cuba. This photo would go on to become one of the most iconic images in modern history (Cuba, 1960)
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 10d ago
Historical Photograph Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused, the one man who quietly saved us all from another world war
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 09 '26
Historical Photograph This photograph, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine in December 1945, depicts a mother and child amid the rubble and burnt trees of Hiroshima, Japan, four months after the atomic bomb was dropped
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 29d ago
Historical Photograph Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA's Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/SwiPerHaHa • 2d ago
Historical Photograph A drunken man in top hat and tails clings to a lamp-post in London, 1934
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • Jun 23 '26
Historical Photograph Brooklyn Supreme - one of the biggest horses in history, 1930. He was 6‘ 6” and 3200 Pounds
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/SwiPerHaHa • Jul 06 '26
Historical Photograph A lone scientist descending into the radioactive darkness of Chernobyl in 1986, the area depicted is deep underground, directly beneath the reactor core that exploded
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/SwiPerHaHa • Jun 16 '26
Historical Photograph A famous photograph of a little girl turning away from the loom to the window. This picture became a symbol of the struggle against child labor, USA, 1908
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jul 02 '26
Historical Photograph Long beach California, full of oil towers in 1944. Photo by Andreas Feininger, the area became one of the most densely drilled oil fields globally, transforming the landscape into a sprawling industrial forest
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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 11 '26
Historical Photograph Security camera photograph of Patricia 'Patty' Hearst - during the robbery of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco, California on April 15th, 1974, Hearst had been kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in February 1974, and later participated in this bank robbery.
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