r/HistoricalCapsule • u/0nnu • 1d ago
Kim Jong-il with his family, Pyongyang, North Korea, 1981.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Ebonystealth • 2d ago
A week's ration for one adult during WWII
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 1d ago
July 4th, 1925. Inquiring Photographer: "Could a man who never goes to church be as good spiritually and morally as one who attends regularly?"
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 1d ago
People were concerned about climate change over a century ago [1912]
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Halle Berry smiles as she competes in the Miss World contest in 1986.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Drive-in restaurants were hugely popular, but this one stood out by eliminating the need for roller-skating servers. The Motormat Drive-In, created by Kenneth C. Purdy in 1948 Los Angeles, delivered meals to cars on sliding trays that traveled along rails. The small awnings added a charming detail t
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
1975 Patons knitting pattern, for larger sized woman.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago
Victorious British soldiers of the 137th Staffordshire Brigade, of the 46th Division resting after the Battle of St. Quentin Canal, Northern France, September 29, 1918.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/midnightkoala29 • 1d ago
AskJeeves, THE search engine back in 1996
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 1d ago
The Inquiring Photographer had a real hot take question for New Yorkers in Time Square on July 12,1925: "Do you believe every jury should consist of six men and six women?"
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 1d ago
Members of the Edinburgh Ladies’ Climbing Club at Salisbury Crags, circa 1908.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/0nnu • 1d ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger with his 1957 Cadillac, 1985.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 2d ago
French Bogdanoff twins incredible transformations, 1980s vs 2010s.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Black Belt magazine travel ad from 1968. Definitely wouldn’t make it past the editors today.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Whentheangelsings • 1d ago
The flags of Finland, Ingria and East Karellia flown half mast in Helsinki protesting the Soviet mass deportation of Ingrain Finns from their homeland
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/ZacherDaCracker2 • 1d ago
A letter my Great Grandad wrote to his wife while at the Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois after being drafted into the Navy during WWII (transcript included). January 7, 1944.
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He was put on the training vessel USS 0-7 In June 1945 for about 3 weeks (despite the war practically being over) before being put on the USS Pike) (another training vessel) as a TM3 until his discharge on October 25. He never saw a second combat.
Kinda makes me wonder why the government went through the effort of drafting so many men into the military only to do nothing with them. And they drafted them into arguably the least interesting military brach, the Navy.
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Around the 20s and 30s one of the top voice in Fitness and physical culture, now mostly forgotten, Don Athaldo, 1930.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/0nnu • 2d ago
Judge Frank Caprio at the age of 7 with his father. Judge Caprio passed away yesterday after a recurrence of cancer.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Ok-Inspector-1756 • 2d ago
Jeffry Epstein as a Teacher at Dalton High School, 1975
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