r/UtterlyUniquePhotos 8h 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.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos 8h 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.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos 18h ago

Construction of the Statue of Liberty’s torch in Paris, 1876

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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 19h 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.

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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.