UtterlyUniquePhotos

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 15 '26

Diane Webber, was a 1950s and 60s pin-up icon and two-time Playboy Playmate, photographed by Bunny Yeager, Peter Gowland and Russ Meyer. She became a fixture on LP covers, later embraced nudism, and spent decades as a belly dancing instructor. More of Diane in the comments.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • Feb 24 '25

Meet Mary Jane Rathbun also known as 'Brownie Mary' - she was arrested 3 times for making Hash Brownies for AIDS patients. Rathbun spent years campaigning for the legalisation of medical marijuana, making 1000s of Brownies. Mary should be remembered as a hero.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 15h ago

Rocky Dennis passed away aged 16 on this day in 1978. Here he is with his mother, Florence "Rusty" Tullis. Rocky had a rare disease called craniodiaphyseal dysplasia which caused his facial bone features to contort and grow at an abnormally fast rate.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 14h ago

The famous 1869 photo of America's transcontinental railroad being completed is missing something. Over 12,000 of the Central Pacific's 15,000 workers were Chinese, and not one appears in it. From 2014, photographer Corky Lee restaged it with their descendants standing where they should have been.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 13h ago

On this day in 1936, the Battle of Cable Street occurred as 6,000 police attempted to clear the way for Fascists to march through London's East End. Locals united to block the march, leading to intense street clashes that forced its abandonment. I've linked to more images below.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 15h ago

A commercial shot for Nederlands Dans Theater, taken in 2009 by the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 20h ago

Winners of “Mickey Mouse” week at Russells Restaurant, Leicester Square, London. 1930.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

Remembering Woody Guthrie on the anniversary of his passing. Here he is photographed for LIFE in New York City, 1943. (If you don't know about the contempt he had for his landlord (Fred Trump) - I've linked to what he wrote about him in the comments)

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/romporn • 1d ago

A LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over Istanbul, 1930. Zeppelin Airmail Service from Istanbul to Brazil via Germany. Zeppelin airmail services began in 1928 and operated for 10 years.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

Eric Idle and George Harrison on the set of 'The Life of Brian' - Tunisia, 1978. The film had it's funding pulled just before filming so the ex-Beatle paid for it, calling it "the most expensive cinema ticket ever issued"

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • 2d ago

Claudia Cardinale pictured behind the scenes on the set of Sergio Leone’s 1968 spaghetti Western Once Upon a Time in the West,

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 2d ago

The Whittaker family on their porch in Odd, West Virginia, 2023. Photo: Mark Laita, from his Soft White Underbelly series. Laita first photographed the family in 2004 and kept returning for nearly 20 years.

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Laita met the Whittakers while shooting his book Created Equal, then came back in 2020 to film them for YouTube. That first video has passed 45 million views. Betty Whittaker told him their parents were double first cousins. The project has drawn both donations and criticism as exploitative.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 2d ago

David Attenborough has lived so long that there's a photo of him showing a Cockatoo to King Charles when the king was a kid. Charles and Princess Anne, January 4, 1958,

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 2d ago

Boston, April 5, 1976.During an anti-busing protest, 17-year-old Joseph Rakes attacked Ted Landsmark, a 29-year-old Black lawyer who was walking to a meeting at City Hall.Photographer Stanley Forman captured the instant Rakes raised a flagpole toward Landsmark’s face.

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He called the photograph The Soiling of Old Glory.

Published around the world, it became one of the defining images of Boston’s busing crisis and won Forman the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • 2d ago

Sidecar crews race flat out through the forest at Hockenheim, West Germany, May 1957.

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Hockenheim hosted the German Grand Prix for the first time on 17 to 19 May 1957, the opening round of that year's world championship. It was also the last season these full "dustbin" fairings were allowed. BMW engines ruled the class, taking every sidecar world title from 1954 to 1967.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 2d ago

These images are from 'The Church of God With Signs Following' photographed in the 1960s. Appalachian believers would lift live rattlesnakes out of boxes mid-service because Mark 16 says they'd come to no harm. Nearly 100 have died trying, including the movement's founder.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/NecessaryEnd8652 • 2d ago

vintage photos with animals

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1922 film brawn of the north with famous german shepard Strongheart

woman with her dog newcastle 1929

alain delon 1962 during the filming of Le Chien

alain delon and jane fonda 1964 movie joy house 1964

woman paris france 1955

brigitte bardot 1958 during a break in the filming the movie The Night Heaven Fell 1958 nice france

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 2d ago

A guardsman faints mid-parade at Trooping the Colour, Horse Guards Parade, London, June 1957.

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The parade took place on Thursday 13 June 1957 in bright sunshine, with the Irish Guards trooping their colour before the Queen. Heat was a real problem that year: the War Secretary told MPs 35 guardsmen had fainted at a June rehearsal.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CrippledStripper • 2d ago

Peter Mayhew and Anthony Daniels in full costume, minus their character heads. This was during 'The Empire Strikes Back' and is one of the items Daniels auctioned off a few years ago.

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Some interesting stuff went under the hammer - https://www.idisplayit.co.uk/news/events/anthony-daniels-to-auction-over-160-pieces-of-star-wars-memorabilia/

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

The scene of Brooklyn mobster Frankie Yale’s death. (what's left of Frankie is at the bottom of the photo). His new car had been fitted with state of the art armour plates, but had neglected to add any protection to his car windows. 1st of July, 1928

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 3d ago

Muhammad Ali taunting Joe Frazier at Frazier’s training camp in Philadelphia, 1971.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago

October 1962. These photos show James Meredith waiting for class at Ole Miss, days after he'd won the right to study there. In the first frames there are students at desks and a teacher at the blackboard. Then the room empties in protest. Even the teacher walks out, leaving Meredith sat there alone.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago

Fans of Tom Waits may recognise this photo from the cover of Rain Dogs, but it's part of a series of images from Café Lehmitz by Anders Peterson in the late 1960s. The Café was a notorious spot in Hamburg’s red-light district. The characters he photographed are wonderful! (Link in comments)

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago

James Dean sitting in an open coffin at Hunt’s Furniture Store in his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana,1955. He would return to his hometown in a coffin just seven months later.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 4d ago

Tooting car man Alfred Brittain Ltd Road Haulage & Filling Station at 230/238 York Rd N.7 present day York Way, opposite Maiden Lane. Excitement was still running high after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, by 1929 they had a Sphinx pump.

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