Historical Photograph Thread

Feel free to contribute any historical photographs you like.
Any period is welcome.

>One of the last surviving veterans of the Napoleonic Wars photographed in full uniform in 1858.

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>Austrian woman searches for her son amid POWs returning from the Soviet Union.

>A disabled Austrian veteran returns home.

>A mother looks for her missing son at Friedland Refugee Camp in 1955.

>Grand Central Terminal during World War II.

>First Nations man and his wife.

>A bust of Adolf Hitler amidst the ruins of Berlin.

>The German embassy in Sweden flies the flag at half-mast on the day of Hitler's death.

>Dresden in the 19th century.

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>Aftermath of the Battle of Raate Road, 1940.

>Japanese soldier at the Great Wall of China.

>Paris under German occupation.

>Children watch as German soldiers are marched into captivity by American forces, 1945.

>Dead U.S Marine on Iwo Jima.

carriages fucking hell lmao

>French resistance fighters with a captured German paratrooper

>Nurses tend to wounded German soldiers near the Brandenburg Gate, 1945.

>German soldiers take cover in a ditch after taking fire from Soviet forces, 1941.

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>German troops in Denmark, 1940.

>US Marine with a kitten on his head, World War 2

A cute!

>Japanese POWs returning home from captivity in the USSR

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More Pacific Theatre pls.

Sure.

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Those are all the pacific pics I've got, unfortunately.

>Estonian SS volunteers hunting partisans near Pskov.

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Sailors recovering the body of a Titanic victim

Titanic survivors approaching the Carpathia

Members of the Warsaw uprising [it may have been another ghetto uprising, I forgot to label the file] who were executed shortly after this photo

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The last Emir of Bukhara, 1911.

Hydroelectric station.

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A fireman holding one of the victims of the SS Eastland disaster.

Over 800 people died, many of them drowned, and others suffocated and crushed below decks as the ship flipped on its side in just 20 feet of water. Some died of blunt force trauma or drowning after being struck by objects thrown by bystanders, who were attempting to give the people in the water something to hold onto.

70% of the victims were under 25, and about 300 of them were teenagers, children, and infants.The boat was a company sponsored picnic excursion and many of the victims were poor workers and their families, hoping for a fun afternoon out.

Many witnesses recounted the screams from the victims, both those trapped inside and the people clinging for life in the murky water.

>God, the screaming was terrible, it's ringing in my ears yet

Another witness, who heard the screaming from blocks away, said:

>People were struggling in the water, clustered so thickly that they covered the surface of the river. The screaming was the most horrible of all.

These are my favorites. You can look at the rest of the fairly extensive series here:
loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

A German before and after his trip to Turkey. 1908

>one of the last surviving veterans
>barely 40 years after the conflict ended.
this seems exaggerated. nice pic though

Yeah, the last veterans lived until the 1890s.

Very interesting
The great game is cool

Bukhara's not Afghanistan it's Uzbekistan

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American victory memorial made from captured German helmets

Spring of Nations took place in 1848 which is already in the age of photography yet there's so little. Here is a barricade in Paris perhaps someone has more photos from other countries?

A British Black & Tan in Dublin during the civil war, holding a Lewis Gun.

A naked gunner from WW2.

1840s

His face man, imagine waking up one normal morninv and then a few hours later having to pull children out of an overturned ship
Fuck

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It's one of those photos that just perfectly captures horror.

Thread ruined by WW2 fags.
We've seen those photos a million fucking times. Post shit we haven't seen.

>1876, london

bismark looks like a goblin desu

I've seen this one on hm so many times

oh lord

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Bigger photo I found online of Andrew Borden's corpse

L-lewd

I think you mean

>(((American))) victory memorial made from captured German helmets

OP here. Reviving this thread with more pics.
Would appreciate contributions?

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Requesting anything involving France or the Balkans.

I have a few French pics from WWI.

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That's it regarding the French for now. My folder is so big it's hard to find shit in it.

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Soviet Victory Parade.

>my feet hurt
>this pack weights too much
>hans is kissing a cutie
>i want to be kissing hans too...

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Why is he naked?

Soviet prototype from 30s

slept naked, didn't have time to get dressed when he needed to arm those guns

historischdenken.hypotheses.org/3323
Apparently some of the oldest historical photos there are, not much older than yours. None of them show the revolutions though.

>there will never be photographs of older times

Wellington was photographed. If only Napoleon lived a long life there's a chance he would've been photographed as well. Probably old enough to be unrecognizable but still mindblowing. Someting that a portrait can't portray.

There's something off about the photos from 1840s-1850s. People look like ghouls and everything is always grainy and unreal.

For comparison a photo from 1860s.

quite the athlete

the photographer who made this, some russian, forgot his name, was a true genius, especially his self portait looks like its from 2014

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This is Napoleon's youngest brother Jerome.
Many said that he bore the greatest resemblance to the Emperor.