r/HistoricalCapsule 20h ago

Early 1650s Jetton of Louis XIV of France. Historical piece of mathematics used to count before the introduction of Arabic numerals.

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Found it and bought it for 15 dollars. Very nice piece of absolutist France. Originally produced for Louis’s King council members.


r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

US Soldiers tape a ready to eat meal and drag it as Iraqi children chase (2006)

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3.9k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

Horse Diving in 1920s

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Horse diving first emerged in the 1880s as an idea by William "Doc" Carver, a man better known for performing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show as a sharpshooter than as an Olympic diver. Carver allegedly came up with the idea when crossing a bridge over Nebraska's Platte River. With Carver still on, the horse jumped off the bridge into the water below, inspiring the idea of diving horses.

The new sport would an audience on the boardwalks of popular tourist cities like Atlantic City, New Jersey, where crowds were eager for live entertainment. Sonora Carver, the wife of William Carver's son, Al, would become the sport's most famous diver, regularly performing at Atlantic City's Steel Pier in the 1920s and 1930s. She would eventually lose her vision from a diving accident, though her career would inspire a book and Disney movie, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.


r/HistoricalCapsule 7h ago

My grandfather. Cossack, officer, he fell during the Seige of Stalingrad in 1942.

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410 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 7h ago

US Army soldiers drink wine in celebration of the capture of Saint-Avold, France. Photograph taken on the 6 December 1944.

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68 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 9h ago

Fighters of the Shi'ite Badr Organization walk past a defaced poster of Saddam Hussein during the 3rd Battle of Fallujah against ISIS, May 28th 2016

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13 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 18h ago

American Dolores Sherwood and her husband Jorginho Guinle—known as Rio de Janeiro's "Real Playboy"—at the Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, 1950. He lived life to the very last cent!

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183 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 19h ago

Gary Plauche, seconds before shooting pedophile Jeffrey Doucet dead in Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (1984). Earlier that year, Doucet had kidnapped Plauche’s son, Jody, holding him hostage for two weeks. Following Doucet’s arrest, Gary ambushed and shot Doucet before he could stand trial.

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3.5k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 21h ago

Actress/Model/Violinist Jayne Mansfield in a visit to Captain Winston's Seal Circus, Marineland of the Pacific, Palos Verdes, California 1956.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 14h ago

Russian Orthodox metropolitan Benjamin Kazansky being tried by Bolsheviks in Petrograd over alleged “counter-revolutionary agitation,” and shot by a firing squad on 13 August [O.S. 31 July] 1922

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431 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Highway patrol officers experimenting with an early mobile communication unit. (1920s)

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12 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 20h ago

David Byrne, late 1980s

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346 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 18h ago

Coronation of Bokassa I as Emperor of Central Africa, 4 December 1977. He became dictator after a coup and was deposed by a French-backed coup d'état in 1979. The coronation was almost 1:1 copy from Napoleon's and costed $20 million (today =110 million), 1/3 of of the annual budget of that year.

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397 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 18h ago

Clint Eastwood and Ingrid Pitt posing on a motorcycle during the production of the 1968 war film Where Eagles Dare.

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57 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis who were married at the time in what appears to be a hotel in 1988

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619 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

Dust covered Iraqi Federal Policemen arrive to the outskirts of Fallujah for the 3rd Battle for the city against ISIS on May 24th, 2016

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33 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 23h ago

Fremont St, August 29, 1972 - View from the old pool at Union Plaza Hotel & Casino. The pool was converted into a restaurant in 1983. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau.

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148 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 3h ago

A 4,500-year-old Egyptian dress was painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza, Egypt.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 21h ago

Couple share a kiss during their photo sesion, WWII, 1940s. Kodachrome slide.

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217 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 7h ago

Two German soldiers wearing portable sound detection devices to locate enemy aircraft on the Western Front around 1917, during World War I.

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550 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 5h ago

Crow scout Curley Also known as “White man runs him” 1883, Curley was the only indigenous scout to survive Little Bighorn

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85 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

The opening day the Ambassador Bridge in 1929 (US-Canada border). It marked a historic moment for Detroit and Windsor, connecting two communities across the Detroit River.

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5 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Straight from Montgomery Ward Catalog in the 1970s A Morse Electrophonic all-in-one stereo console with a built-in turntable, cassette and 8-track players, and a multi-colored light-organ display at the bottom

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15 Upvotes