Historical Photographs

Historical Photograph thread

Post any interesting/cool historical photos

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French infantry after the recapture of Fort Douaumont, 1916

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French cuirassiers in the very early days of WW1, before realizing that war, war had changed

Is funny how a documentary about WWI made now already has colored footage, I remember when I first saw WWI in color it was such a big deal some years ago.

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Austro-Hungarian POWs in a Russian camp in Karelia, 1915

Monastery from the Solarium, Tver, 1910.

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Franco and the senpai

Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway along Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk in 1910

Basically pictures taken by Serge Prokudin-Gorsky

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Holy shit is that real-life Richard Harrow?

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Pretty much.

I'd like a WWII and non-WWII editions to be honest.

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I have some but they don't have good titles like yours OP

Btw if someone knows more about the subject is it true that this is the closest we get to the photo of actual signing?

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This one is from the Franco-Prussian war

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No worries, post em anyway

Soviet airplane detection before radar

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Polynesian(?) tribal armor made from shells and whatnot

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Soviet troops run through a trench during the Battle of Stalingrad

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Great War German cavalry

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Elefant or Nashorn guarding a mountain pass

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British soldiers supported by a French armoured car during the battle of the Yser, 1918

Soccer hooligans

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Finnish soldier during the winter war

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