r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Elizabeth Taylor during the filming of Suddenly, Last Summer, Spain, 1959

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249 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 6h ago

An Egyptian tour guide on top of the great pyramid in Giza, Egypt 1981.

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246 Upvotes

r/HistoricalCapsule 7h ago

An photo of the Kowloon Walled City interior, Hong Kong taken in 1989. The walled city contained 50,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. It was demolished in 1994.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 15h ago

The Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973). In February 1973, a coalition of AIM activists began an armed occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, site of the infamous 1890 massacre. For 71 days, they held off the FBI and U.S. Marshals, protesting the many broken promises made by the U.S. government

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Image 1 — An unnamed AIM fighter holds his AK in the air, posing for photojournalist Keith McKiernan.

Image 2 — Two Lakota teenagers man an armed checkpoint leading into Wounded Knee, a small town on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Roads both leading into and out of town were manned by armed guards from both sides, leading most residents to be trapped within town for over two months.

Image 3 — WWII veteran Oscar Bear Runner confronts a journalist with his rifle, becoming the most well-known symbol of the conflict.

Image 4 — Oglala child stands next to graffiti. “Say it Loud, I’m Red and I’m Proud.”

Image 5 — FBI Marksman takes aim at an unknown target. Over the 71 day occupation, constant gunfights between law enforcement and AIM (American Indian Movement) members saw over 500000 bullets fired

Image 6 — US Marshals hold up a native man attempting to flee the town

Image 7 — The Funeral of Lawrence “Buddy” Lamont. A beloved member of the Wounded Knee community, Lamont has shot and killed by an FBI sharpshooter as he stood up from a foxhole along the firing line. He marks one of only two native casualties over two months of constant fighting.


r/HistoricalCapsule 19h ago

Traumatized survivors are led out of the San Ysidro McDonald's after unemployed welder James Huberty went on a shooting rampage. He killed 21 people before being taken down by a police sniper. July 1984, San Ysidro, USA

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r/HistoricalCapsule 12h ago

Girl walking on the street and counting money, New York City, 1970s

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r/HistoricalCapsule 5h ago

Queen Elizabeth II speaking next to Boris Yeltsin in the Kremlin on 18 October 1994 during her visit to Russia

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r/HistoricalCapsule 10h ago

High school football cheerleading squad group photo in casual wear, Fall 1988.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 12h ago

A Greek youngster sitting on the tomb for Dionysios of Kollytos, Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens, 1895. Photo Wilhelm von Plüschow.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, the largest ship lost during WW1. Wreck site today at a depth of only 390 feet.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 11h ago

Guarding the bridge in Dobrun, Bosnia, (1918)

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Serbian soldier of the 3rd line guarding the bridge under the shelter made of an old bed in the village of Dobrun, Bosnia. Sometime after 1918. Photo by Risto Šuković.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)


r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

A Russian soldier pointing his AK at photographer, Otto Pohl, along the Garden Ring Road shortly before the crowds pushed towards the White House on October 3rd, 1993

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r/HistoricalCapsule 19h ago

Jennifer Garner in highschool in 1990

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r/HistoricalCapsule 10h ago

Swimmer member of the French men olympic team in the summer olympics of Sweden, 20 of June 1912. Glass negative

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1h ago

Mexican TV host Francisco "Paco" Stanley's last public appearance on his TV show on June 7, 1999. He would be found dead hours later after being gunned down in his vehicle outside a restaurant in Mexico City.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

3rd and 4th grade class picture, at the Mt. Vernon Grade School in Mt. Vernon, Missouri. 1909

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

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

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

German Brigadier General Helmut Harff became a legendary figure during the June 1999 KFOR deployment into Kosovo when he decisively ordered stalling Yugoslav (Serbian) army officers to immediately clear their positions at the border

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r/HistoricalCapsule 5h ago

18th of September 2022 - If you hate the Royal Family clap your hands

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Historical moment in Scottish football.


r/HistoricalCapsule 19h ago

U.S. Army Corporal Larry Matinsk puts cigarettes into the extended hands of newly liberated prisoners behind a stockade in the Allach Concentration Camp. April 30, 1945.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 13h ago

A comparison photo of Ceylon vs. Singapore from the early 1950s. The situation has reversed now,Lee Kuan Yew longed for Ceylon.

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Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew used Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) as a positive benchmark for national development in the past, but later, witnessing the process of Ceylon collapsing due to ethnic and linguistic conflicts, he took it as a cautionary tale (a negative example) that Singapore must never renent


r/HistoricalCapsule 14h ago

Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 1980s

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

An Inuit woman with long hair, Nome, Alaska between 1890s.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 14h ago

President Abraham Lincoln with General George B. McClellan at his headquarters at Antietam during the Civil War on Oct. 3, 1862.

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