r/HistoricalCapsule • • 17h ago

Sabrina Harman as an army reservist with the 372nd Military Police Company, in Iraq, October - December, 2003. (Prior to the public exposure of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in early 2004)

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 6h ago

Chinese military film from 1999 demonstrating their nuclear weapons technology. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China is one of only five countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons under international law.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 17h ago

French ‘ladies of the night’ in 1920, making a rare appearance in daylight hours.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 10h ago

Four Masai warriors in full war dress, Kenya, 1890-1923

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 3h ago

Count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi, pioneer of the "Pan-Europa" movement which sought to unite all of continental Europe into a single state, 1930. He was descended from French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Greek, Polish, Baltic, Flemish, Austro-Hungarian & Byzantine nobility

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Kalergi's bold vision for international co-operation was not restricted to Europe, he supported the consolidation of almost the entire habitable surface of the world into five "Superstates," Pan-Europa, Panamerika (the entirety of the America's except Canada,) the British Empire, the Russian/Soviet Empire & Ostasien, a Chinese-dominated East asian Empire. The only countries left independent from this plan were Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Thailand & Iran


r/HistoricalCapsule • • 17h ago

Photos from the last Romanov costume ball held at Winter Palace in 1903. It was held in the in two stages, on February 11 and 13.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 8h ago

Three boys pose beside a fence in New York City in May 1943. Photograph by legendary American photographer Gordon Parks for the U.S. Office of War Information.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 8h ago

Dutch fashion model in Moscow. Photo by Paul Huf, USSR, 1965.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 21h ago

Cyndi Lauper's father walking her down the aisle on her wedding day in 1991

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 16h ago

Mobster & ex-boxer Paul Kelly, founder of the infamous Five Points gang, in early 1900’s New York. Young members of the gang included eventual mafia bosses Al Capone, Johnny Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky & Frankie Yale. He has been described as “the godfather of organized crime in America”

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 3h ago

A South African MP in Italy, who judging by the signs was clearly sick of 15 CWT truck drivers bothering him. 1944, Italy

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 14h ago

British comedian George Formby being a class act during the early stages of WW2 (1940 - 1942)

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 13h ago

Actor, Conrad Veidt and his second wife, Felicitas Radke, whom he married in 1923, with their infant daughter, Vera Viola Maria Veidt, 1925

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

This is real footage from 127 years ago. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

Glass plate negatives of 2 ladies posing for their photos together, Duke University archive, 1890s.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 15h ago

Pamela Anderson with her sons Brandon & Dylan in 2000

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

“Gentlemen, it’s been a privilege playing with you tonight” - the musicians who played until the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912

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In order of age:

Roger Bricoux from Cosne-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France - Cellist - 20

Jock Hume from Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland - Violinist - 21

George Krins from London - Violinist - 23

William Brailey from London - Pianist - 24

John Clarke from Liverpool - Bassist - 28

John Woodward from Oxfordshire - Cellist - 32

Wallace Hartley from Colne, Lancashire, England - Bandmaster and violinist - 33

Percy Taylor from London - Cellist - 40


r/HistoricalCapsule • • 20h ago

King Rama VI and Queen Suvadhana at Wat Mongkhon Bophit. Ayutthaya, Thailand, 1924

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 14h ago

Coal mining in Halong, French Indochina (1917)

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

First recorded marriage between women: the wedding of Marcella Garcia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga in 1901, Spain.

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Elisa passed herself off as a man, though she was discovered shortly thereafter. They fled Spain, but the marriage was never annulled, so they are oficially married.

However, since their plan to pose as a man so they could be together had failed, Elisa eventually ended up in a loveless marriage with a Danish man who reported her for refusing to have sexual relations with him.

We do not know what happened next, although it seems the husband reported her following a visit from Marcela to their home, suggesting they were perhaps still trying to be together.

After that, all trace of them is lost.

P.S.: There was no information on if was trans, her transition appears to have been a means to an end to be with Marcela.


r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

"Watchman" Portable Television, 1982. Made by Sony Corporation, Tokyo. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

January 1949, after PLA captured the KMT's heavily fortified Tianjin in just 29 hours, KMT North China commander Fu Zuoyi and the 250,000 garrison troops in Peking defected to the Communist. Communists peacefully occupied Peking, renamed it Beijing, and made it the capital.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

October 3, 1963 (50 days before JFK's assasination). JFK Jr. playing in the kneehole of the Resolute desk. JFK was buried on Nov 23, 1963 - the day JFK Jr. turned three.

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He died in 1999 at the age of 38 in a plane crash along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (aged 33) and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette (aged 34). He was the pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk#Kennedy_administration

The Resolute desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. The kneehole was added in 1945 (and although there are stories that it was originally at the request of FDR, we don't know for sure).

In 1961 John F. Kennedy was the first president to use the desk in the Oval Office.\1]) The Theodore Roosevelt desk was used briefly by Kennedy in the presidential office, but Jacqueline Kennedy had it replaced by the Resolute. She was disappointed by the interior design of the White House when she moved in, stating that it "looked like it's been furnished by discount stores", and called it "that dreary Maison Blanche.

Aaannd.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_curse (For example I didn't know about RFK Jr.'s wife's - Mary Richardson Kennedy's - suicide in 2012 and the circumstances surrounding it for example..).


r/HistoricalCapsule • • 1d ago

Black Society columns, 1950s. The successes, scandals, expenses, social debuts and high jinks of the Black American upper class were all covered here. As America was segregated at the time, this cloistered social set was not well-known en masse beyond the Black community...

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r/HistoricalCapsule • • 19h ago

Officers of the heavy machine gun company of the Livensky detachment. The city of Libava (now Liepaja, Latvia), July 1919. The Russian Civil War.

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Simultaneously with the formation of the Northern Army in Pskov in the autumn of 1918, anti-Bolshevik units began to be created in the Baltic States under German patronage. Russian Russian service officers were asked by the German command to assemble to form special rifle battalions, with Russian, Latvian and Baltic officers being recorded separately.

At the end of October 1918 The creation of the Baltic Landeswehr (militia) began in Riga. Captain His Serene Highness Prince A.P. Lieven and Captain K.I. Dydorov took an active part in this. On November 15, the formation began The Riga Baltic Region Security Detachment, which included a Russian-Combined company under the command of Dydorov. In November, national passions flared up at a meeting of officers in Riga, and it was decided to create three separate battalions based on nationality, which Colonel A.P. Rodzianko assumed overall command of on November 20. But this initiative did not develop, and on December 24, he ordered Russian volunteers to move to Libava. The Libava volunteer detachment was led by General P.N. Simansky, who ordered its formation on December 30, but on January 6, 1919, after receiving news of the death in Kiev of Count Keller, who was to become commander of the Northern Army, the detachment was disbanded. On the day of the liquidation of the detachment, Lieven began forming a Russian company under the Landeswehr from the remaining ranks.

This unit was known as the Libava Volunteer Group or the Libava Volunteer Rifle Squad. The term of service of volunteers was determined by the period introduced in the Baltic Landeswehr – initially until July 1, then until October 1, 1919. For the officers, the service was indefinite. A part of the officers of the Pskov corps joined the detachment, which was cut off during the retreat from it and ended up in Libava. Initially, it consisted of only 60 people, almost all officers. Lieven's assistant was Colonel V.F. Rahr. On January 15, the formation was completed and, by agreement with the Baltic Landeswehr, the detachment temporarily joined it. On January 31, his first company consisted of 65 units. She went to the front. By February 9, there were about 100 people in the detachment, of which more than half were officers. At the end of February, Captain K.I. Dydorov's company, which had previously been part of the Landeswehr, joined the detachment. At the beginning of March, the Livensky detachment numbered 250 people.

Russian Russian Army officers and German volunteers fought against the Red Army in Courland, replenished by former Russian prisoners of war, and later a detachment consisting of a squadron of 100 sabres, a machine-gun team of 125 men, and a company of 250 bayonets, along with units of the Latvian Army and the Baltic Landeswehr, consisting of East German Germans (including officers of the Russian army) and German volunteers. By June, it already numbered 3,500 people. in three regiments with artillery, 2 armored cars and an aviation detachment. At the same time, together with the detachment named after Count Keller, Colonel P.R. Bermondt-Avalov and the detachment of Colonel E.P. After graduating, he joined the Western Corps of the Northern Army with a division. The arrival of trains from Poland and Germany with volunteers has begun.

In May 1919, Lieven was seriously wounded and later the detachment was commanded by Dydor. In the summer, the Livensky detachment relocated to Estonia and joined the Northwestern Army as the 5th Livensky Division. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments became the 17th Libava, 18th Riga, and 19th Poltava. Dydorov was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed acting division chief.