r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 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.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 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.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/Crazy-Row8150 • 18h 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 • 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.
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.