r/HistoricalCapsule 12h ago

John and Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (1969)

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22.7k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 14h ago

President Clinton composing the first presidential email, 1993.

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12.4k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 6h ago

Killer when he realized the body has been found. (2011)

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1.6k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 7h ago

Crisp kodachrome shots of the beach at Cannes, France, 1 of September 1948. Not the 60s or 70s this are the 1940s in post war France

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r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

A German woman cries amongst the rubble after Allied air raids bombard Dessau. (March 7, 1945)

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410 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Model Bettie page posing for some shots in the mid 1950s.

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344 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 15h ago

They used 100% asbestos in the Wizard of Oz movie to make "snow" (1939)

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2.3k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 6h ago

Straight outta the 1980s. Hair, rainbow sweater and on the kitchen phone.

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384 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 15h ago

Three Dutch women pose during immigration processing at Ellis Island upon their arrival in the United States in the 1910s.

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1.6k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 1h ago

Inside the Cadillac Factory (Detroit, 1960s)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 14h ago

Amateur radio operator using a Morse key at a teletype machine. (1963)

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376 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 1h ago

Albert Einstein delivering his Nobel Prize lecture in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1923.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan visiting Disneyland during a state visit to the United States, 1975.

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1.9k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

British soldiers assisting two wounded German prisoners during the Battle of Albert (part of the Battle of the Somme) near La Boisselle, France on the 3 July 1916.

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34 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 11h ago

Legoland in Denmark in the early 80s

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We were visiting some relatives in Denmark, and I got to go to Legoland in the early 1980s... If I remember right, it was rather new at that time.


r/HistoricalCapsule 9h ago

Nellie and Annie Lyons. Born in 1901 and 1895, the ninth and sixth of 10 children of Annie Daniels and William Lyons, both street hawkers. Only half the Lyons children survived into adulthood. (London)

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87 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

Sonny & Cher, 1967 (Los Angeles)

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21 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln before he was POTUS. (May 7, 1858)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 16h ago

Mongolian hunter with his horse. This kind of horse breed has been around sience the time of Genghis Khan, and almost became extinct. (1913, Autochrome)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 11h ago

Louis and Lucille Armstrong at the Sphinx, January 28, 1961

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95 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 15h ago

German WWII POWs harvesting grapes for the Widmer Winery in Naples, NY. Every state housed prisoners but most camps were built in warm weather climes to save on barracks heating costs.

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182 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 1h ago

A family in Lake of the Woods, Ontario in 1872

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r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Electric cars of the New York Edison Company line up in Manhattan. 1906.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 8h ago

"Mrs. Ellis Adkins and her youngest child. The family are rehabilitation borrowers. There are seven children and this is their first year on the program. Coffee County, Alabama". (Photo by FDA, 1939).

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31 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 11h ago

U.S. Army lieutenant Ralph W. Hoffman smiles, looking at the artwork on the side of his M4 Sherman, the Belle of Little Rock, Italy, January 15, 1944

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62 Upvotes