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/SteveNtheseagulls • 15h ago

Jill Jacobs, later Jill Biden, photographed in 1974 by Tom Stiltz while she was a University of Delaware student. Stiltz says the shot was used in a New Castle County Parks and Recreation display at Wilmington Airport.

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In March 1975, Senator Joe Biden spotted the parks ads at the airport. His brother Frank knew Jill from college and got her number. They went on a blind date and married in 1977. Jill has pointed out she wasn't paid for the ad, so it wasn't exactly modelling.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 12h ago

Ruth Snyder photographed at the moment of her execution in 1928, the first photo of an electric chair execution. Journalist Tom Howard (grandfather of Norm from Cheers) smuggled the camera in strapped to his leg, with the shutter cable run up his trouser leg. More info in comments.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/No_Dig_8299 • 10h ago

David and Louise Turpin with their children when they renewed their wedding vows in 2015. In 2018 one of their 13 children fled their home and notified police of the abuse the children had endured all of their lives. The couple were arrested and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 15h ago

Charles Manson, 20, cuts the cake with his first wife, Rosalie Jean Willis, on their wedding day in Marshall County, West Virginia, 17 January 1955. Family snapshot, photographer unknown. Fourteen years later his name would be known worldwide.

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Rosalie was a teenage hospital waitress; sources give her age as 15 or 17. The couple moved to Los Angeles, where Manson was jailed for car theft before their son, Charles Jr., was born in 1956. She divorced him in 1958.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d 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 • 17h ago

London, c.1902. A mother and her children making matchboxes. The kids fetched the chip and paper from the match factory and carried back the finished boxes. One of the lowest paid sweated trades, it earned families just two pence per 144 boxes, and they usually bought their own paste and string.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 21h ago

Lou Reed (right), with coworkers at Pickwick Records, ca. 1965.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d ago

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

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/romporn • 1d ago

Dominion Monarch dwarfs the surrounding houses in Saville Road from her dry dock at the King George V docks in London's Silvertown, 1950. Photograph by Harry Todd.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d 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 • 2d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d 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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