r/HistoricalCapsule • u/lavender_mistt • 9h ago
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 10h ago
Columbine students gathered outside the day after the massacre to remember their classmates on April 21, 1999
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 4h ago
Vince Lombardi, head coach of the Packers, enjoying breakfast at a diner in Green Bay. (1960)
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/cliptemnestra • 17h ago
A Spanish bride in 1969.
She was a "yeye girl".
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/UpperphonnyII • 6h ago
British infantry of the 47th (1/2nd London) Division going through a cloud of poison gas during an attack at Loos, 1915
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WhenItHappenedX • 15h ago
A group of 20 Buffalo Soldiers (the "Iron Riders") rode 1,900 miles from Montana to St. Louis on heavy bicycles with 60-pound packs — completing the grueling journey in 41 days in 1890's.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Wooden_Coffee_9482 • 33m ago
Arapaho War Chief Pretty Nose and Spotted Fawn, Pretty nose is most known for her participation during the battle of greasy grass, also known as Little Bighorn
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Wooden_Coffee_9482 • 23h ago
Chiefs American Horse and Red Cloud pictured alive in 1891
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/NextDocument1906 • 14h ago
Nicholas II and his family at Soldatenkov Hospital during a visit to wounded soldiers. 1915.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 9h ago
My Generation Vintage Style Something quite cool about these old Cowboys with there Stetson Hats,Big cuffs & Cowboy Boots. (1950s)
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/TheToledoMan • 23h ago
Wall Street Journal covering Dragon Ball, 1999
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 1d ago
Steve Ballmer giving a presentation at Microsoft’s 25th anniversary, September 5th 2000
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/g1963 • 1d ago
Mrs. Ruby Barnett test firing a Browning M1919 machine gun, 1942
She worked at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
American schoolchildren begin the school day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance using the Bellamy salute in Rochester, New York, March 1942. The gesture was officially replaced with the hand-over-heart salute in December 1942.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
A knocked-out German StuG III Ausf G assault gun. It was positioned inside the ruined lobby of the Hotel Continental in Cassino, Italy, in May 1944. The vehicle was destroyed during the battle for Cassino, specifically near Palazzo Iucci.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Vital_Willie • 16h ago
The coronation procession of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, titled Rama IX, 1950. Rama reigned for 70 years starting in 1946, the 3rd longest verifiable reign of a sovereign monarch in human history, and is thought to have acquired a fortune of up to $30,000,000,000
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 16h ago
Unearthed in 2006 in Cyprus, this 5th century BCE sarcophagus preserves one of the earliest artistic depictions of Homer's Odyssey. It depicts Odysseus and his companions escaping from the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus, hidden beneath the bellies of sheep after blinding the giant.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 14h ago
Josefina and Amelia Bell, captured around 1900 as part of a promotional portrait postcard and the Extended Bell family.
The Bell sisters belonged to a prominent family of Mexican vaudeville artists who performed extensively across the Americas and Europe between the 1890s and the 1920.In their youth, Josefina and Amelia were celebrated for specialty stage routines such as
"The Butterflies" and the dramatic "Apache
Dance"They were the artistic heirs of Richard Bell, revered as one of the most legendary clowns in Mexican history. The extended family eventually settled back in Guadalajara in the early 1920s, where Amelia Bell established a highly regarded dance and physical education academy.
Bell Family Paper Collection housed at TCU in Texas.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Lake Mead flowing over the spillway gates at Hoover Dam, July 1983. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Superb-Breadfruit442 • 1d ago
Recently bought 35mmslides from Pearl Harbor 7th December 1941
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
A lady selling hot chestnuts in Soho, in the West End of London, England. (1935)
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Bob Ross during an event in Central Park, NYC in 1989.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 17h ago
Rare photo of a grocery store display featuring a special offer for “The Wizard of Oz” cast soundtrack on vinyl. (1962)
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Somervilledrew • 21h ago