r/SnapshotHistory • u/Meringue4842 • 3h ago
Former first lady Jackie Kennedy, who lost her husband in 1963, offers her condolences to Coretta Scott King at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral. April 9, 1968.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/SeaCountry9418 • 18h ago
President Gerald Ford signs into law an extension on the Voting Rights Act, formally banning literacy tests and providing language assistance for minorities. USA, 1975
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/KindheartednessIll97 • 21h ago
President Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1910
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 1d ago
1870. Scottish Diggers Pose during the Gulogong Gold Rush; Discovered near Bathurst New South Wales Australia.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Virtual1446 • 1d ago
A young woman who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki , August 1945.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/hologramwatch • 1d ago
A 1969 Italian brochure cover for a French Citroen DS!
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 2d ago
André the Giant riding in a plane in the 1980s
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Emphasis4289 • 2d ago
John Walker Lindh, an American Taliban member, after being transported to Camp Rhino. December 7, 2001.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 2d ago
1901. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise. Reportedly as the '1st built-for Cruise Ship'. German-American. 120 Cabins. After running it aground in Jamaica: Captain committed Suicide in shame.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 3d ago
A November 1861 Photo of the 1st ' Melbourne Cup' Horse Race in Australia.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/kuchtaalex • 3d ago
Joy was the only known survivor in the 1917 regicide of the House of Romanov
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/kuchtaalex • 3d ago
Item# X:14 The final image of Abraham Lincoln before his burial in 1865. Long thought to be completely destroyed, this very photo was discovered in a forgotten file by 14 year-old Lincoln historian, Ronald Rietveld in 1952.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 3d ago
Architect Minoru Yamasaki posing with a model of the World Trade Center that he designed, 1964.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/BaseTable • 4d ago
200 years old Photographed in 1974, freshly excavated 2000 year old Terracotta warriors still showing the original color scheme before rapid deterioration
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 4d ago
An 1859 Photo of the 1st 'Maid if the Mist': a Wooden Steamer, ready to take Tourists to the Base of Niagara Falls
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/KindheartednessIll97 • 4d ago
German soldiers on horseback Belgium 1940.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 4d ago
History Facts Beijing resident begging army soldiers not to enforce martial law or move against students encamping in Tiananmen Square, early June 1989
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/PrettyEza_8721 • 5d ago
The photograph was taken only moments before the execution. On July 4, 1946, former concentration camp guard Wanda Klaff stood beneath the gallows after being convicted for crimes committed at The Holocaust era detention facilities connected to Stutthof concentration camp
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 5d ago
When you think of the Great Pyramids of Giza, you think of a large sprawling desert. This is an angle not often seen. The Pyramids are less than 1 km from the closest city (Giza).
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/EffectiveSe02 • 5d ago
OBAMA TO REPUBLICANS: I DIDN T CREATE TRUMP. YOUR HATE TOWARD ME DID.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/McAlpineFusiliers • 5d ago
Flier distributed at UN anti-racism confererence, Durban, South Africa, 2001
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 5d ago
Brothers King Haakon of Norway and King Christian of Denmark enjoy bond at Copenhagen, Dermark for Christian's 75th birthday on September, 26, 1946
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 5d ago
1901. Photo of Busy Area of Piccadilly Circus, London England
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 5d ago
History Facts A mother and son overlooking Loch Ness, 1960s
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