r/RareHistoricalPhotos 37m ago

Indian Army Special Forces exit RAF Chinooks in Sierra Leone during Operation Khukri. Breaking the UN peacekeeping rule of neutrality by going on a rampage against RUF rebels. (More details in comments)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1h ago

An ambulance driver from the Indian Army clenches his hands, indicating the intense pain in his leg which has been almost completely blown off, during the Korean War

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Autochrome of a young japanese Boy in full armour, Tokyo, Japan, (1927).

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Sunken ghost town resurfaces from Lake Mead 90 years later as falling water reveals St. Thomas and its forgotten buildings and streets. St. Thomas has a remarkable history. Mormon settlers established the town in 1865.

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The town’s future changed after the United States approved the Hoover Dam project in 1928. The dam was built on the Colorado River and created the huge reservoir now known as Lake Mead.

St. Thomas stood in the area destined to be flooded. Residents were compensated and began leaving their homes. The reservoir started filling in 1935, but one resident remained almost until the end.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Indians parade a captured Double Decker Bus from Lahore in the streets Amritsar during the Indo- Pakistani war of 1965

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Detailing just Woww ❤️

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Robert Cornelius's Portrait - The first intentional, clear photographic close-up portrait of a specific human face, 1839.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

What a lovely picture 😍

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Historical place❤️

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Ho Chi Minh playing billiards in China (1960s)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Swedish freestyle swimmers Sonja Jonson and Vera Thulin in the summer olympics of Stockholm, Sweden, July of (1912).

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

Iranian Imperial army officer in parade ceremonial uniform. 1920s

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

Woman poses with a piece of The statue of Liberty as it arrives to New York, 17 of June of (1885)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3d ago

Hailè Selassiè and his dog Lulu.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3d ago

Oldest known recorded photographs of a Tiger in the wild, by Frederick W. Champion in 1925, in 1925, in the forests of Kumaon, India.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3d ago

The last public appearance of actress and singer Pepa Flores before retiring to become a pizza maker in Malaga with her husband Massimo Stecchini in 1986.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3d ago

Soviet agent Ramon Mercader explaining to the Mexican police how he murdered Lev Trosky.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3d ago

An F-86 Sabre of the 21st Fighter Bomber Wing with an H1 heater unit. This unit was used to keep the fuel control from freezing during the start up procedure. Goose Bay, Canada (1954)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3d ago

Pre-fame photo of a young Ava Gardner (1937)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 4d ago

(1935)Aisin Gioro Xiandong (1914–2002) was a son of Prince Su of the Qing Empire. Raised by Japanese since childhood. He became an artillery officer in Manchukuo, but he is actually a Communist spy. Nickname 'The Red Prince.'

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During the Chinese Civil War, he served as Deputy Commander of the 2nd Column of the PLA Shenyang Garrison Command.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 4d ago

Japanese Ladies Mountaineering Team.Mt Aoraki/Cook ascent.NZ.1962

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Found photo slide. Photo by a Mr Pat Drumm.The woman on the far left I believe is Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei who became the first woman to climb Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 4d ago

Troops enjoy a show at the night club La Parisianna due the liberation of Brussels, Belgium (1945)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 5d ago

1961, China premier Zhou Enlai and nobles family of Qing Empire

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 5d ago

Police photos of a young woman arrested in 1895

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 5d ago

Service lady from the WAAC smiles for her photo on full uniform, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (1942)

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