UtterlyUniquePhotos

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • Oct 06 '24

Announcement For those that may be interested, r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime has been launched today. A community that looks into historic real-world cases that explore the complexities of criminal events throughout history and today. Hope to see you there!

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/jasonvoorhees2582 • Sep 15 '24

Tsar Nicholas II lighting a smoke for Anastasia in 1916.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 17h ago

Reinhard Heydrich's car after he was killed by two British trained members of the Czechoslovakian Army in 1942. He didn't die immediately but had a long and painful death from the injuries he received during the attack. The consequences for the people of Czechoslovakia were horrific

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

In 1943 a man and his German Shepherd took some time out to pop into a photobooth in Grand Central, NYC. I'm glad they did.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 21h ago

A London sandwich bar in 1972.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

Marcus Wayne Chenault Jr., who killed the mother of Martin Luther King Jr. at a Sunday service in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1974. He was arrested for Alberta's murder and the murder of church deacon Edward Boykin.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • 21h ago

Inventor Hugo Gernsback demonstrating his television eyeglasses, 1963.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 21h ago

Oleg Gazenko, director of the Soviet Institute of Biomedical Problems, holds Belka (right) and Strelka (left), the first two dogs to survive a trip to space, August 1960.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 2d ago

22 yr-old Charlie Johns reading the bible to his 9 yr-old bride, Eunice Winstead. They married in 1937 and went on to have 9 children together.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

George H.W. Bush takes a toboggan ride with Arnold Schwarzenegger at Camp David. 1991.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/morganmonroe81 • 1d ago

August, 1944: Allied forces helping French woman during sniper fire during liberation of Chartres from the Germans, WWII.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

Val Kilmer training in a Suzuki Method class at the Juilliard School, New York. At 17, he was the youngest drama student ever admitted in 1981.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/No_Dig_8299 • 2d ago

Rue McClanahan (otherwise known as Blanche from the Golden Girls) 1963

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

These images are part of a larger album I've compiled of photos depicting the contrasts of life in Havana during the pre-Castro years. If you'd like to see more of the album I've linked to them below.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/ExtremeInsert • 2d ago

A ground-level view of 'Tank Man', visible through the trees on the left. Tiananmen Square, June 5th, 1989.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • 2d ago

Richard Petty tries to help fellow driver Neil Bonnett after both were involved in an eight-car crash during the Carolina 500 NASCAR race. North Carolina Motor Speedway, March 4, 1979.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

These are a few images of NYC in 1946 photographed by Todd Webb. His name might not be as well known as his more 'famous' contemporaries, but I've put a gallery in the comments which shows what a fantastic eye the man had.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago

The Unabomber Ted Kaczynski being arrested in his remote cabin on this day in 1996.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/morganmonroe81 • 2d ago

Thursday, April 10, 1947: Assembly line of a Ford plant is halted for the day of Henry Ford's funeral.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 3d ago

Joe Cocker photographed during his performance at Woodstock, 1969

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 3d ago

Robert Redford serving as pallbearer at John "Liver-Eating" Johnson's reinterment ceremony, 1974. His remains were being moved to a rural setting, more befitting of a mountain man.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago

Charles Lindbergh giving evidence at the trial of the man accused of murdering 20 month yr-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr - 1932

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago

Along with an estimated 58,000 US Army personnel, British photojournalist Larry Burrows didn't survive the Vietnam War. He did however leave a body of work that brought the war into the homes of people back home. The gallery in the comments is graphic, but is as important now as it was then.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • 5d ago

"West meets East" - Two German brothers , separated by The Berlin Wall, meet again during the “border pass agreement” of 1963

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CarkWithaM • 5d ago

A story in two images, photographed in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958, when tension surrounding school integration in the city was at it's peak. 15 yr-old Johnny Gray confronts one of the two white boys who tried to force him and his sister, Mary, from the pavement whilst walking to school.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/onwhatcharges • 5d ago

A photo of a young Kuwaiti girl holding her lamb, during the Gulf War, (1991).

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/No_Dig_8299 • 4d ago

Curious girl on roller skates watches army patrol during the Battle of the Bogside, Northern Ireland, 1969. Photograph by Clive Limpkin.

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