r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 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.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • Feb 24 '25

Meet Mary Jane Rathbun also known as 'Brownie Mary' - she was arrested 3 times for making Hash Brownies for AIDS patients. Rathbun spent years campaigning for the legalisation of medical marijuana, making 1000s of Brownies. Mary should be remembered as a hero.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 11h ago

84-year-old Josephine Smith digging a grave by hand at the Drouin Cemetery in Victoria, Australia, around 1944. She took on grave digging and cemetery maintenance (such as planting trees and tending plots) while local men were away at war

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 12h ago

Madison Avenue and 50th Street in Manhattan, New York City, photographed during the Great Blizzard of 1888.

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The Great Blizzard struck from March 11 to 14, bringing between 10 and 58 inches (25 to 147 cm) of snow to parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Sustained winds of more than 45 mph (72 km/h) created enormous snowdrifts, some exceeding 50 feet (15 m) in height, while roads, railways and telegraph lines were severely disrupted, bringing transport and communications across much of the region to a standstill.

Also called the “Children’s Blizzard” or “Schoolhouse Blizzard” because so many children were caught in the snow and frozen to death on their way to school. The children who made it to school were generally kept in the school by the teachers until they could safely travel home- days later. The official death toll is around 230, but some say the actual number of deaths could be over 1,000. (This is people in general, not just children.)


r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 7h ago

A young lady with her cat, her Cannabis plant and the August 15, 1915, edition of the French weekly newspaper Le Miroir.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 11h ago

This dapper chap is Albert Göring, younger brother of the infamous Hermann Göring in 1940. Serving as the export director of Škoda Works he would use his position and brother's reputation to save Jews during WW2 as well as avoid four arrests and one death warrant.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 15h ago

Armenian freedom fighter Pavlik Manukyan and his bride (I couldn't track down her name) during their wedding ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia (circa 1988)

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 7h ago

On this day in 1970, Leonarda Cianciulli, 'The Soap-Maker Of Correggio' died. Cianciulli grew increasingly superstitious and put her energy into murdering and turning women into soap and baked goods in the 1940s, which she then gave to her neighbours and son to consume.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 8h ago

British soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions in Tobruk, Libya, on October 15, 1941, during the Siege of Tobruk. Photographed by Lieutenant William G. Vanderson (No. 1 Army Film and Photographic Unit)

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 11h ago

An assault victim poses for the camera – 1934. Chinatown, LA. From a collection of LAPD crime photographs dating from the 1920s to the 1970s discovered in 2014. I've linked to the rest in the comments. They're quite NSFW though.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 14h ago

In the 1920s and 1930s, sheep were routinely introduced into London parks to keep the grass under control and reduce mowing costs. Shepherds competed for the privilege of grazing their flocks on Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Clapham Common and other pastures around the city.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 13h ago

Fox Photographer RJ Salmon dangles in a Crate suspended from a Crane to take an Aerial Shot of Fleet Street, London, with St. Paul’s in the Background. The Picture is taken from the Daily Telegraph Building, 1929

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

On this day in 1977, while speaking at an event in Iowa to promote her campaign to roll back anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, Anita Bryant was hit in the face with a pie.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 8h ago

Students from the Emerson School for Girls, Boston MA, 1850s

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin visiting Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1961

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

“Emperor Roosevelt” - FDR celebrating his 52nd birthday with a "toga party" at the White House on January 30, 1934. FDR and his inner circle known as the "Cuff Links Gang" threw the toga-themed celebration topoke fun at political opponents who had accused Roosevelt of a being a Dictator.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

1960: Raquel Tejada (aka Raquel Welch) does the weather on the set of the Sun Up morning program at KFMB-TV (CBS Channel 8) in San Diego, California.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

"Wind Tunnel Construction, Fort Peck Dam, Montana" (or Diversion Tunnel Construction, Fort Peck Dam) taken by American photographer Margaret Bourke-White in 1936

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Vali Myers left Melbourne at 14, slept rough in post-war Paris and got thrown out of France for vagrancy. Then she spent nearly 50 years in a ravine above Positano with 100 animals and a pet fox, tattooed Patti Smith’s knee and asked Donovan for a goat as a performance fee.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

'Simon Being Taken Out to Sea for the First Time Since his Father Drowned' -Skinningrove,1983 by Chris Killip

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, Mary Doyle Keefe,around 1950

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Mario Giacomelli is widely regarded as one of the foremost Italian photographers of the twentieth century. Born into poverty, he lived his entire life in Senigallia, a town on the Adriatic coast in Italy’s Marche region. Hew taught himself to paint and write poetry.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

A pro-European demonstrator holds a mirror which reflects a group of riot police officers standing guard in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. Photographs by Serguei Chuzakov.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

A bayonet manufacturing workshop, Wilkinson sword factory in Acton, West London, 1915

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Dolly Parton and husband Carl Dean hamming it up in a photo booth, c. late 1960s. The strip sat unseen in Carl’s old National Guard trunk until 2026, when it went on show at her Nashville museum.

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The strip turned up with Dolly’s long-lost 1966 wedding dress and veil. Her niece Rebecca Seaver, who runs the Dolly Parton Archive, told Vogue that Dolly hadn’t seen it since it was taken. The couple met outside a laundromat in Nashville in 1964 and married in Ringgold, Georgia, on 30 May 1966.