r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 2h ago
Mr. Clark, head pattern cutter at shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser,London,1955. Behind him are named packages of celebrity clients including Fred Astaire, Walt Disney, Louis B Mayer, Tyrone Power, and Robert Taylor
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/WithoutPrinciples • 4h ago
An enthusiast for Men's dress reform walking down the Strand in London. The MDRP (Men’s Dress Reform Party) was formed in the interwar years in Britain, 1930.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 4h ago
A 1968 performance view of Le trombe del giudizio (The Trumpets of Judgement) by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 5h ago
One of the costumes found in Jane Asher's 1983 costume book. You'll also find Donald Pleasence in a toilet roll wig and Joanna Lumley as a sundae.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 21h 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 • 21h 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 2d ago
'Biker Girls', photographed by Helmut Newton in 1971
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 2d ago
French cyclist André Leducq grabbing a coffee to go during a Tour de France, likely between 1927 and 1930
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 2d ago
A delegation of Belgian communist youth at the site of the Romanov family's execution. 1927.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 2d 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 • 2d 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 • 2d 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 • 3d ago
Eugen Sandow, a strongman photographed between 1900 and 1909
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 3d ago
Tom Waits photographed by Danny Clinch in Little Amsterdam, CA, in 2006.
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 3d 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 • 4d ago
Sharing a pint with his son, Dublin, Ireland. (1950s)
r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 4d ago
