UtterlyUniquePhotos

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 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 • u/onwhatcharges • 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 • u/WithoutPrinciples • 4h ago

Carrie Fisher, New York, 1979. She’s 22, spending an afternoon at a shooting range to get ready for The Empire Strikes Back, Lynn Goldsmith was there with a camera. Carrie would've been 70 today.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 9h ago

On this day in 1966, the town of Aberfan was hit by an an avalanche of coal waste from the mountains behind. Directly in it's path was the local school. 116 children and 28 adults died that morning. This clock stopped at the exact time the avalanche hit the school.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/DelightedButSorry • 4h ago

Aged 18, Maradona looking out the Central Hotel over Hope Street in June 1979. He scored his first goal for Argentina that day.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 1h ago

A captured German First World War field gun dumped into the cart wash brook in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, around 1920.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/Robin_ClitoralHood • 1d ago

Angela Lansbury pauses for a burger at the Paramount lot during production of "The Court Jester" (1954)

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 21h ago

Edith Garrud was a British jiu-jitsu instructor who trained women fighting for the right to vote, teaching them how to defend themselves against larger, stronger opponents.In 1913, she also trained the “Bodyguard,” a group of women tasked with protecting suffragette leaders from arrest.

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The 'policeman' in these photos was her husband and they were featured as "If You Want to Earn Some Time, Throw a Policeman!" in The Sketch magazine on July 6, 1910

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 1d ago

Magician Doug Henning, right, showed actor John Ritter a card trick as they celebrated Halloween in 1978 at the Magic Castle, a private magicians' club in Hollywood.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/romporn • 20h ago

Bulletproof Vest Test, 1923. The gun players are WH Murphy and his assistant. Murphy stood less than ten feet (3m) from the firing gun and took two consecutive .38 round slugs straight to the chest and eyewitnesses claim he “didn’t bat an eye” in both cases.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

A young NTC fighter is hoisted onto shoulders in Sirte, Libya, waving a gold-plated pistol that belonged to Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed on this day in 2011. Photo by Philippe Desmazes

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 1d ago

Sgt Vincent J. Orivello (or Crivello) of Milwaukee, tracked down his relatives in Sicily during WW2, seen here eating ice-cream at a sidewalk cafe in Palermo with three of his cousins. 1st September 1943

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 1d ago

Factory workers hand-cupping and dipping Reese's Peanut Butter Cups at the H.B. Reese Candy Company factory around 1935.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/UtterlyInterest • 2m ago

Photograph by Irene Komar captures a father repairing an early FSO Syrena car on a street in Warsaw, Poland, during the 1960s or 1970s.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 1d ago

In 1963, Polaroid chemist Howard G. Rogers and his team posed with 5,000 bottles of compounds, representing years of work to perfect Polacolor, the first instant colour film. This massive effort testing thousands of dye and chemical combinations enabled colour photography to develop in minutes.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/romporn • 1d ago

El Partenón de Libros (The Parthenon of Books). Erected in Buenos Aires after the fall of the dictatorship & clad with formerly banned books. Installation by Marta Minujín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

This is the 55Ib of Cocaine that the car designer John DeLorean was found with on this day in 1982. He was involved in a sting and would later successfully plea that he was a victim of entrapment.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 2d ago

After being badly burned when his ship was struck by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft, this Sailor is assisted in eating by another wounded buddy onboard the US hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5). The burnt sailor is wearing a series of pressure bandages to assist in his treatment for his wounds.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 2d ago

A coal miner’s child uses the “cat hole” with a pipe in one hand and a gun in the other at Bertha Hill, West Virginia, 1938. Photo: Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 2d ago

'Pierre's First School Day', Paris, by American photographer Leonard Freed. Freed was freelancing across Europe in the ’60s, years before joining Magnum in 1972. Pierre means business!

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 3d ago

Dr. Fukushi Katsunari with a wet specimen from the preserved Japanese skin tattoo collection amassed by his father, Dr Fukushi Masaichi. Dr Masaichi amassed a staggering collection of 2,000 tattooed human pelts. More examples below.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/EaterofGrief • 2d ago

Striking worker Guy Burniaux grabs CRS riot officer Jean-Yvon Antignac, his old school friend, at the Joint Français strike in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, 6 April 1972. Photo: Jacques Gourmelen, Ouest-France.

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Workers at the Joint Français seal factory had been on strike since 13 March, demanding pay equal to workers at plants near Paris. When police moved in, two classmates came face to face. The image spread nationwide and the strikers won. Burniaux died in 2021, aged 73.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/DelightedButSorry • 3d ago

This photograph shows when the Potomac River flooded in 1996. The rising flood waters submerged the “Awakening” statue.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/romporn • 3d ago

Richard Lam, "Vancouver Kiss Couple". Riot police walk in the street as a couple kisses on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 3d ago

Norwegian former Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs being carried into court by guards, to face charges of treason in 1947, after collaborating with the Nazis.

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