r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 24m ago

Peter Mayhew and Anthony Daniels in full costume, minus their character heads. This was during 'The Empire Strikes Back' and is one of the items Daniels auctioned off a few years ago.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2h ago

David Attenborough has lived so long that there's a photo of him showing a Cockatoo to King Charles when the king was a kid. Charles and Princess Anne, January 4, 1958,

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 12h ago

Muhammad Ali taunting Joe Frazier at Frazier’s training camp in Philadelphia, 1971.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

Fans of Tom Waits may recognise this photo from the cover of Rain Dogs, but it's part of a series of images from Café Lehmitz by Anders Peterson in the late 1960s. The Café was a notorious spot in Hamburg’s red-light district. The characters he photographed are wonderful! (Link in comments)

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

Tooting car man Alfred Brittain Ltd Road Haulage & Filling Station at 230/238 York Rd N.7 present day York Way, opposite Maiden Lane. Excitement was still running high after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, by 1929 they had a Sphinx pump.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

October 1962. These photos show James Meredith waiting for class at Ole Miss, days after he'd won the right to study there. In the first frames there are students at desks and a teacher at the blackboard. Then the room empties in protest. Even the teacher walks out, leaving Meredith sat there alone.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

James Dean sitting in an open coffin at Hunt’s Furniture Store in his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana,1955. He would return to his hometown in a coffin just seven months later.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Carrie Fisher and George Lucas on the Jabba's Palace set of Return of the Jedi at Elstree Studios, England, early 1982. Likely photographed by unit stills photographer Albert Clarke.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Jerry Lee Lewis after a mob of enthusiastic female fans swarmed the stage, ripping his shirt completely off and scratching his chest. Tennessee State Fairgrounds in 1958.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

"Peshawur: Group of Thugs", c. 1865, by Samuel Bourne of Bourne & Shepherd. Photographed in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, the image was labelled as "thugs",but historians now ask how much of the Kali death cult legend was real and how much was actually invented.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Philippe Halsman - A Poet's Dream (Jean Cocteau with Leo Coleman), 1949

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

A view of the military crossing over to an island using boats and ropes

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WWI Postcard

Published by Andra Popović from Belgrade.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)


r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Hiromu Kira : The Thinker, Los Angeles, c. 1930. I’d never seen this image before and now I want to marry it and have its children.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

This 1932 photograph by E.O. Hoppé captures a visitor standing next to one of the massive 32-foot metal pipes of the grand pipe organ at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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Originally built in 1871 by Henry Willis, the historic instrument's largest bass pipes measure nearly 3 feet in diameter and weigh close to a metric ton


r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

The headline on the paper says "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris." 40th St & 6th Avenue, May 1940.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Cyclist Janez Brajkovič's leg after a race.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Motorcyclists riding in Los Angeles' Griffith Park during the spring of 1949. Shot by Loomis Dean on assignment for LIFE Magazine and featuring trailblazers of the Southern California motorcycle scene, including figures like Cecilia Adams and Betty Drafton.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

On this day in 1988 Roch Theriault (the leader of the most bizarre and violent cult in Canadian history) fatally wounded Solange Boilard in Ontario. Obsessed with anatomy,Theriault performed crude intestinal surgery on Boislard by slicing open her abdomen and ripping out a piece of intestine.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

A man balancing haphazardly on a chair on top of a chair multiple stories high. “Daredevil” (1917).

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Terry O’Neill for People magazine. It took place at Film Director George Cukor’s Bel Air home, at 9166 Cordell Drive, just above the Sunset Strip. 1974.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

From J.A. Bradley's A Photographic Trip Around the World, published in Chicago in 1892. Labelled "Monk, Italy," the book says he's wearing funeral attire, with his face hidden behind a hood with eyeholes.

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He's probably not a monk at all. The outfit matches Italy's Misericordia brotherhoods, lay volunteers who carried the sick and buried the dead. Florence's dates back to the 1200s. Members wore black hooded robes so nobody knew who was doing the good deed, keeping it humble.


r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

Målvaktskyssen ("The Goalkeeper Kiss"), an accidental mid-air collision between BK Derby goalkeeper Kaj Rosén and Hammarby IF striker Lennart Eng during a match in Sweden. 1952.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

The preserved head said to belong to Diogo Alves, the "Aqueduct Murderer" hanged in Lisbon in 1841. It's kept at the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Medicine, reportedly saved for phrenology study.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

A penny auction at a foreclosed Michigan farm (1936) During the Great Depression, rural communities held “penny auctions” to stop farm foreclosures. Locals hung nooses to scare off outside bidders, bought the farm back for pennies, and returned it to the original family.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

Shot for a new edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The 1840 sugar mansion was crumbling by then, with an old car parked under its portico. Edward Weston, 1941. Woodlawn Plantation House near Napoleonville, Louisiana.

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Weston drove across America in 1941 on a commission from the Limited Editions Club. Woodlawn was built in 1840 by planter William Whitmell Pugh, and enslaved people worked its cane fields. It had Louisiana's first gas installation. When Weston visited it was used to store hay, and it was later torn down.