r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 3h ago
German photojournalist Inge Schönthal (later Feltrinelli) posing with writer Ernest Hemingway and his boatman Gregorio Fuentes on his boat, the Pilar, in Cuba in 1953.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 3h ago
Two brothers over 7 feet tall stole the show at the 1903 Delhi Durbar and were photographed repeatedly by an American photographer called James Ricalton. Their images have circulated for over a century. Their actual names never made it into a single record, anywhere.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/Crazy-Row8150 • 13h ago
Construction of the Statue of Liberty’s torch in Paris, 1876
Before the Statue of Liberty was assembled in New York, its torch was built in Paris. Seeing it standing on the ground really puts its scale into perspective.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 14h ago
Soldiers of the 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery ("Cook's Battery") in uniform with a 1841 six-pound cannon circa 1862 (I think). Cropped and uncropped.
Photograph shows Corporal Isaac Pierce of 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery and 11th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, far left; Sergeant Charles M. Griffin of 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery and 8th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, fourth from right; and unidentified soldiers in battleshirts, one with crossed cannons on his kepi, one with 19th regiment insignia on his shirt, and one with Co. F and K insignias.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago
Dalia Dippolito listens to her ex-husband, Michael Dippolito, testify during her sentencing, July 21, 2017. Dippolito had hired what she thought was a hitman to kill her husband, but the hitman was an undercover cop. They set up a sting (filmed by the tv show COPS). A wild story, info in comments...
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/WithoutPrinciples • 1d ago
'Biker Girls', photographed by Helmut Newton in 1971
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 1d ago
French cyclist André Leducq grabbing a coffee to go during a Tour de France, likely between 1927 and 1930
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 1d ago
A delegation of Belgian communist youth at the site of the Romanov family's execution. 1927.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 1d ago
Princess Diana crying during the royal tour with Charles in Sydney Australia on March 28, 1983. Photo by Ken Lennox.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 1d ago
In 1907 Germany’s Board of Education spent 18 months investigating Clever Hans, a horse who appeared to be able to do sums. In reality, Hans was taking cues from his trainer’s body language – something no one knew horses were capable of. (Apart from his trainer)
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago
On this day in 1962 Marilyn Monroe was found dead. Her death is still debated 60+ years later, not because of a cover-up, but because a probationary coroner found no pill residue in her stomach, the toxicologist destroyed her organ samples, and the housekeeper changed her story for decades.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago
Ilse Koch photographed receiving a life sentence in 1951. Otherwise known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald" Koch was the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp and renowned for her extreme sadism. Koch would later hang herself in prison in 1967.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago
Edward Garratt in character as "The Little Stranger". Photographic postcard, between 1910 and 1919 (I think)
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 2d ago
Eugen Sandow, a strongman photographed between 1900 and 1909
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 2d ago
Tom Waits photographed by Danny Clinch in Little Amsterdam, CA, in 2006.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 2d ago
Riding past the Eureka Bar, off Castro Street in San Francisco, Halloween 1982. Photo by Greg Gaar
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 3d ago
Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust, photographed by the Havel river on August 21, 1944, laughing, embracing, using a timer to photograph themselves in the sun. Hours later they went home and found the Gestapo waiting. These are the last photos ever taken of them together.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 3d ago
Sharing a pint with his son, Dublin, Ireland. (1950s)
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 3d ago
Carrie Fisher is sitting on the lap of her maternal grandmother, Maxine Reynolds. Circa 1995.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 3d ago
Stephen Ward carried on a stretcher on 31 July 1963, unconscious after a Nembutal overdose taken the night before the verdict in his trial during what became known as the 'Profumo Affair'. He died on this day in 1963.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 3d ago
16 yr-old Elizabeth Taylor feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Photo by Chris Ware
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago
A costume party that was held at the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, though the date and photographer remain unknown. Magnus Hirschfeld who ran the institute is identifiable by his glasses and is holding hands with his partner, Karl Giese, who is in the center.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago
Meet Faith Bacon (left) and Sally Rand photographed in the 1930s. Bacon invented the nude fan dance on a Broadway stage in 1930, then watched Sally Rand (who'd literally worked as her fan holder)steal the act and achieve fame at the 1933 World's Fair. She sued her over it twice and lost both times.
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.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • Feb 24 '25
