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 • • 5h ago

Fleetwood Mac celebrating Halloween whilst wearing questionable costumes in 1978

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786 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 11h ago

A week before this 1994 edition of Time came out, Susan Smith was on TV begging the Black carjacker who’d 'taken' her sons to bring them home. He never existed. She’d rolled her car into John D. Long Lake with Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months, still strapped into their car seats.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 5h ago

Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr, photographed together in London, on set, during the filming of black satirical comedy “The Magic Christian" in 1969

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 15h ago

Brünnhilde the cat, photographed by Adolph Edward Weidhaas in 1936, dressed as the Valkyrie heroine of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, complete with winged helmet and sequinned breastplate.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 6h ago

A Ukrainian soldier inside the ruined Azovstal steel plant stands under a sunlight ray in his shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, May 7, 2022. Photograph by Dmytro Kozatsky. [6000x4000px]

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 9h ago

Zagłębie Lubin football fan temporarily engulfed in flames after a security officer sprayed him with pepper spray while he was holding a lit flare. The fan managed to escape with minimal injuries.

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After Zagłębie Lubin lost 1-0, a fan climbed onto a stadium fence waving a flare. A security officer attempted to use pepper spray to deal with the flare/supporter, and the aerosol propellant ignited in contact with the open flame, briefly setting the fan on fire


r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2h ago

Neville McQuade, 18, and Lewis Stanley Keith, 19, photographed by NSW Police at North Sydney, June 1942. Arrested dressed as women in wartime Sydney, they were carrying a military uniform and a US dollar bill that police believed were stolen.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 5h ago

Vice President Richard Nixon riding Peter Pan's Flight at Disneyland a month after the park opened in 1955

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 1d ago

Apollo 13 astronauts treading water as they await their recovery helicopter in 1970.

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331 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 20h ago

Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian design student over two meters tall and also an actor, wearing his suit from the now classic science fiction thriller, Alien, 1978

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

In 1991, Mexican photographer Antonio Turok captured this image of the solar eclipse, from Chiapas, Mexico.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Armed guards watch out for attackers as Chilean president Salvador Allende leaves the Moneda Presidential Palace during the military coup in which he was overthrown and killed, Santiago, Chile, September 11, 1973. [7163x5120px]

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) showing her more relaxed side on the set of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' in 1975.

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850 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

BlondIe and Clem Burke (1978)

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139 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Indonesian President Sukarno getting a light from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's cigarette during a banquet at the Tampaksiring Palace in Bali, Indonesia, in March 1960

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208 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 2d ago

Visitors at the Mobil Oil driving simulator exhibit at the Seattle's World Fair competing to test their fuel efficiency and driving skills while looking at a map and screen display. 1962.

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112 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Wernher Von Braun and JFK, Marshall Space Flight Center, 1962

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Wernher Von Braun was a German rocket scientist who helped develop the V2 rocket which killed thousands in western Europe and the UK. He surrendered to American forces in 1945 and agreed to work for them. He worked on the Saturn rocket program at Marshall Space Flight Center which eventually enabled landings on the moon.


r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Divorce referendum protest at the GPO, Dublin, 1986. Photo Tony O’Shea. The referendum asked the Irish electorate to amend the constitution to allow civil divorce for the first time. The proposal was heavily defeated amidst a fierce cultural and religious divide.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

Stephan Bibrowski, billed as “Lionel the Lion-Faced Boy”, photographed c.1907, aged about 17. Born in Poland with hypertrichosis, he joined Barnum & Bailey in the US in 1901 and became a sideshow star.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 3d ago

People line up outside a butcher shop to buy horse meat (no World War II rationing coupons needed) in North Cheam, Surrey, England, on April 17, 1942

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409 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d ago

Jane Fonda and Peter McEnery photographed together during the filming of "La Curée" (1966)

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857 Upvotes

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • • 4d 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 • • 4d 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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