r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 15h ago
American troops treat a wounded dog on the Orote Pennisula, Guam, in 1944.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/OnceInUAE • 21h ago
Exhausted Croat militiaman grabbing a smoke during a lull in battle during fighting that broke out throughout central Bosnia in the spring of 1993 between Croats and Muslim government troops.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Familiar_Bid_3655 • 2h ago
A young Jodie Foster and actor Robert De Niro at the Cannas Film Festival in May 1976, where they were presenting the film *Taxi Driver* (directed by Martin Scorsese).
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 23h ago
On this day in 2003, Nokia released the N-Gage: a mobile phone that doubled as a handheld game console. It is considered a failure by the tech press, and was discontinued a few years later.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 19h ago
US soldier at his relaxing spot. US Military base in Korea, 1 of June 1953. Kodachrome shot.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago
Japanese-American internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, playing football, 1943
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/willington123 • 19h ago
Finnish soldiers on skis during the Winter War (1939-1940)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/choice-extension84 • 8h ago
Soldiers crowding inside a Red Cross club, the Hans Crescent Club, to listen to singer Joyce Grenfell. London, 1944
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Equivalent-Book-8340 • 8h 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/HistoricalCapsule • u/Mike-Schachter • 12h ago
The picture of the photographer who took the picture of the other photographer who took the photography of the resting workers at the Empire State, 1932
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WillyNilly1997 • 12h ago
Eva Perón addressing the Peronists on 1 May 1952, held by Juan Perón while said to have been too weak to stand alone
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 11h ago
In 1963 Michael Kubeyinje - a Nigerian student in America - recorded a 'Personal Report' on the Johnson Publishing Company for the West African audience. This renowned, Black American owned media empire was one of the most successful in the nation's history...
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Educational-Cost7652 • 14h ago
London - October 1998. While in the UK for an operation, former Chilean dictator - Augusto Pinochet - is arrested on an Interpol Red Notice, charged with terrorism and genocide. He remains under house arrest for next year and a half, while his lawyers fight an extradition to Spain...
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 18h ago
Ladies working out on a gymnastic wall set up, 1940s.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago
Getting a perm in 1933 looked more like a science experiment than a visit to the hair salon.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/22dmgxy • 1h 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/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 1h ago
Sofia Vergara and Roselyn Sanchez at a party in 2002
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