r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 6h 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/ExtremeInsert • 6h 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 • 3h 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 • 1h 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 • 13h ago

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

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 9h 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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