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Dear participants, publish your historical photographs, stories and interesting news. Historical photos and videos that can change the way you look at things Reviving the Past: Stunning historical photographs bring bygone eras to life. Any photos from after 1999 are not considered historical. Founded 2023 · 455.4K members · links only

456.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 32.4K upvotes, which works out to 71 per 1,000 members.

71peak upvotes per 1,000 members
456.4Kmembers
32.4Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
104posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

93%
Image 93% Gallery 6% Video 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hands flowers to Alina Kabaeva in 2001. She is rumored to be his longtime mistress and the mother of several of his …

↑ 32.4K 💬 845 image 2025

A man guards his family from cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 under British rule in India.

↑ 32.3K 💬 1.8K image 2025

An Auschwitz survivor holds her great-granddaughter

↑ 30.9K 💬 941 image 2025

Anna Nicole Smith 26 with billionaire J. Howard Marshall 89 in 1994 just after their marriage After he died a year later, his $1.6 billion estate we…

↑ 29.3K 💬 1.7K image 2025

Anne Frank’s father, Otto, revisits the attic entrance where he and his family hid for two years before their betrayal. Amsterdam. 1960.

↑ 27.2K 💬 714 image 2025

A mother and her 8 sons, all served, all came home, 1950.

↑ 25.3K 💬 394 image 2025

A piece of history that reminds us how much we’ve learned

↑ 22.8K 💬 1.3K video 2026

The future Queen Elizabeth preforming a nazi salute

↑ 21K 💬 2.4K image 2025

Married couple san juan de los lagos Mexico 1940

↑ 20.3K 💬 704 image 2025

1910 - Two 13-year-old boys who caught smallpox at the same time. The first had been vaccinated as a child and only developed a few scabs that healed…

↑ 19.9K 💬 754 image 2025

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos, in numbers

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What is r/RareHistoricalPhotos?
r/RareHistoricalPhotos describes itself this way: Dear participants, publish your historical photographs, stories and interesting news. Historical photos and videos that can change the way you look at things Reviving the Past: Stunning historical photographs bring bygone eras to life. Any photos from after 1999 are not considered historical. It was founded in 2023 and has 455.4K members.
How many members does r/RareHistoricalPhotos have?
r/RareHistoricalPhotos has about 456.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 104 of its posts; the biggest reached 32.4K upvotes, which is 71 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/RareHistoricalPhotos?
"Russian President Vladimir Putin hands flowers to Alina Kabaeva in 2001. She is rumored to be his longtime mistress and the mother of severa" reached 32.4K upvotes and 845 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/RareHistoricalPhotos.
What subreddits are similar to r/RareHistoricalPhotos?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot.
What kind of posts do best on r/RareHistoricalPhotos?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are image posts and 6% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/RareHistoricalPhotos?
Across 104 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (18.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 17:00 UTC (12.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (11.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/RareHistoricalPhotos?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/RareHistoricalPhotos has 14.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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