“Utterly Unique Pictures”: 40 Rare And Interesting Historical Pics You Probably Haven’t Seen
InterviewPhotographs can have several functions. We can use photography to capture and communicate emotions. We can also document the present so we can look back on it later and call it ‘past.’ The Internet is full of enthusiasts of the former and the latter.
Here, we are covering an online community called Utterly Unique Photos. They describe themselves as a group that posts photographs “that can sometimes be odd or surreal but are always unique.” We’ve scoured the subreddit and found the most fascinating historical pictures for you to check out. So scroll down and let us know your favorites by upvoting them!
Bored Panda reached out to one of the moderators of this community. The Redditor u/dannydutch1 was kind enough to tell us more about the subreddit and his love for all things music, art, and history. Check out our conversation below!
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Prisoners At Dachau Concentration Camp Greet Their American Liberators From A Barbed-Wire Fence.(Germany, April 1945)
And still there are people who have the audacity to question the veracity of these clearly documented historical events...
It's a crime to do that in Germany. They teach it in schools. In the US for that matter are the genocides what they did against the native people even now a not known fact...
Load More Replies...Dachau was one of the worst. That was the day the USA realized the absolute horror the NAZIs had inflicted. Now we have Kanye West who doesn't think it happened at all.
And today, anti-semitism is once again growing. This is a huge and separate issue to the Israel- Palestine war. We fear for our safety, all over the world. And I live in Australia, I never thought I'd have to deal with it in my lifetime. And yet, in rallies we hear "f**k the jews", "gas the jews", and other shameful calls.
We will stand with you! These people might be louder but not more than we are. Greetings from Germany!
Load More Replies...And many want these times back, seen the parties they vote on. They do not realise that they themselves can end up like this.
Oh noes! I voted for the Leopards Eating My Face Party & now Leopards are eating *my* face! How could I have possibly known this would happen!
Load More Replies...Sadly, Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are rising exponentially on college campuses across the U.S.
My dad's father helped liberate one of the concentration camps. My dad told me it affected him badly until he passed away when I was a kid. All I have is a tiny box with a few pictures and a Naz1 patch taken from a ded soldier, from what I understand. It wasn't just the prisoners who were badly affected, the soldiers who liberated the camps saw the unspeakable horrors too.
The person behind the Utterly Unique Photos community and the username u/dannydutch1 is a Welsh man named Daniel Holland. On social media, he refers to himself as Danny Dutch. You can find him on almost all social media platforms: he shares interesting pictures and facts on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok.
Utterly Unique Photos is one of three communities that Danny moderates. The other two are r/UtterlyBizarre and u/UtterlyInteresting. In name, they might seem quite similar, but they do differ in content.
The latter is "a home for all those things we see that could be described as interesting," according to the community itself. The latter deals more with the strange and weird things in this world. It's a home "for the strangely interesting or bizarrely surreal."
A Lady From The Ouled Naïl Tribe In Algeria, Photographed By Rudolph Lehnert In 1904
Seeeee, people CAN be beautiful without plastic surgery, truckloads of makeup, ridiculous lip fillers and massive filtering. She’s incredibly beautiful.
I agree with you! 120 years old beauty and still ideal :)
Load More Replies...Why are the comments for native or historical woman always so stuck on looks as though the value of the woman is in her appearance?
Maybe folks are just noticing that she's beautiful. Maybe there's nothing more than that to it.
Load More Replies...Outstanding article on the fate of these women that were once living and earning money independent of men, self-employed as dancers and escorts (on their terms), before the French decided they weren't good enough: https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/09/22/the-misunderstood-nomadic-women-who-danced-their-way-to-liberation/
Six-Year-Old Anne Frank Holding A Jumping Rope Next To Her Friend, Sanne Ledermann, On A Pavement In Amsterdam. 1935
Only recently watched the original film led me to read the book. Harrowing.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Night by Elie Wiesel are two other horribly sad depictions about this era. Ignorance is heartbreaking.
That war makes me so made, The God of the Israel will take care of them.
And in the US, it looks like another dictator may be elected to President this year.
Danny tells us the story of how the Utterly Unique Photos group came to be. Or rather, how one subreddit eventually evolved into three. "Initially, I created r/UtterlyBizarre at the end of 2022 to mirror what I was posting on my Twitter channel. But it was pointed out that some of the content I posted was more interesting than bizarre."
Danny said he didn't think that Reddit users took the subreddit titles so literally. "So I set up r/UtterlyInteresting a month later to share articles and videos that interest me," the Redditor continues.
"One of my key areas of interest is photography and history, and I felt I was posting quite a lot of this to the r/UtterlyInteresting subreddit, and it would probably sit better on its own subreddit, hence r/UtterlyUniquePhotos, which I set up about 4 months ago."
A Studio Portrait Of Hattie Tom, A Young Chiricahua Apache Woman, Photographed At The U.S. Indian Congress Of The Trans-Mississippi And International Exposition In Omaha, 1898
I wonder what her name really was, she certainly wasn't born 'Hattie '.
May 3rd 1960, Otto Frank Standing In The Annex That He And His Family Hid In During Wwii. Until They Were Found And Arrested By The Gestapo In 1944
Imagine how many stories like Anne Franck just happened but without any trace. So gut-wrenching...
Just look for golden cobblestones all around german cities
Load More Replies...I have been to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam, you can visit the rooms they lived in. I really felt Anne and her family. The atmosphere brought me to tears.
I was fortunate enough to visit when I was around 12. Later in life I had the pleasure of playing Miep Gies in the stage adaptation of her diary. Her words and person always struck a chord with me. I mourn someone I've never met.
Load More Replies...To stand in this room was one of the most sobering experiences in my life. I know that there were other people with me in there, but I was so taken that I hardly noticed them.
Such a horrible time in history, lets pray that it never happens again, EVER.
1968. My Grandfather In The Second Korean War, Dmz
For me thats more like hurt, sadness, fear.. In that eyes
Load More Replies...He is in the DMZ. The Second Korean War is analogous to the Cold War. It refers to the ongoing hostility between North Korea and South Korea+ her allies.
Load More Replies...You might think: "Why go through all the trouble and create a new group when there are communities for that already?" Danny wanted a place to share what he thinks is fascinating without adhering to someone else's rules. "One of the reasons I set them up was because I wanted to be free of the rules employed by more established subreddits."
An Enthusiast For Men's Dress Reform Walking Down The Strand In London. The Mdrp (Men’s Dress Reform Party) Was Formed In The Interwar Years In Britain, 1930
Was actuallya genuine progressive political movement. They believed in promoting better men's health and hygene, encouraging working class men to be 'emancipated' by thinking of themselves as individuals, not just worker drones. They got involved in several health and housing campaigns.
Imagine going through life with the mindset that if everyone doesn't dress the same the world will stop functioning.
US has a strange term for more casual than biz casual: “resort casual.”
Load More Replies...A Beach Party In The 1970s
This picture radiates joy and happiness, I’d like to believe these are all still friends
Members of The Soul Train Dancers, the dance troupe featured on the American music-dance television program, 'Soul Train', June 26, 1977.
If you're referring to the guys briefs, that certainly could be a reflective silver print.
Load More Replies...Seriously gorgeous group. My eyes keep going back to the 🍆 not that I’m complaining
Physicists And Nobel Prize Winners Marie Curie And Pierre Curie Shortly After Their Wedding. France (1895)
I feel so grateful knowing that she happened to find husband who supported her and terrified thinking how many more brilliant women were silenced only because of their gender
Still are. Less so obviously and not officially (in most places) we are not banned from having an education anymore and can (in theory) hold the same positions as men. But in everyday life... there is still a lot of supression and narrow mindedness. The prejudice that women can't have any technical ability or insight is strong. I can give you tonnes of (demeaning) examples from my own life. I actually have had something I was fixing being literally taken out of my hands. And not as help, takes too long to describe his attitude, but condescending and disbelief that I even dared to hold a tool, I had no business there basicly. By the way I did a technical study, would have been an engineer, but got seriously ill (and still am 20 years later) during my study and was forced to quit so never got my degree.
Load More Replies...In France people love to present her as a french jewel and at the same time they want less migrants... She was from Poland and did really well in France, she ends her life proud of both cultures.
Load More Replies...Yet the troubles of bigger subreddits might soon catch up to Danny. "As they've grown, I realize I may need to implement submission rules, as all the subreddits are completely open to submissions, and spreading myself across 3 subreddits containing 100k members can be a challenge," the Redditor admits.
British Military Equipment Disguised As Elephants, India, Wwii
As military strategy goes, well let's just say it's a good thing Germany never invaded India.
It would have been Japan, not Germany, and they tried but failed. The battle of Imphal was a turning point in the war and one of the most significant battles in British military history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Imphal
Load More Replies...The difference of course was that, in the vehicles, the trunk was in the back.
No, no, Trojan elephant - completely different size! Sorry, I'll shuffle my way out now. 😄
Load More Replies...Did the same "trick" in anticipation of D-Day--but with rubber tanks and planes. It worked, Germans were looking for invasion at a different site.
Last Known Photograph Of A Barbary Lion Before Presumed Extinction, In The Atlas Mountains In North Africa, Taken In 1925 By Marcelin Flandrin
It was thought to be extinct in the wild and in captivity until the last three decades, when it was found scattered in circus populations. Oxford University WildCRU is working to save the species.
dont give traitor trump jr a time machine. His lust for killing is despicable
Breakfast Tea Being Passed Between Cars On A Train From Peshawar To Lahore In 1983. Photographed By Steve Mccurry
In reali-tea, they chai to work quickly. So matcha do , passengers don't want to wait oolong time....
Danny also wanted a space to share what he features on his personal blog. That's a place where he can share longer stories, not just quick snippets or pictures. "Some of the bigger pages on Reddit saw this as self-promotion, so I thought I'd set up my own pages and not be concerned about Reddit moderators," the creator explains.
Punk Rock Girl London, 1979
Ooh I love that we’ve got original Punk Pandas here. Respect.
Load More Replies...I so want to see a current picture of this person. How much of the punk still there?
Punk for life. I'm 47 and still going strong, more metal now though.
Load More Replies...I had a friend when I was around 7 ish, her older sister was cool AF, she used fairy liquid to style her hair into a bleached Mohawk or egg whites, she was so cool and so kind, she had a boyfriend called kit (these were the night rider days) I was totally awestruck
Omg she looks like every girl I wanted to be just like as a kid. One girl I met on the bus told me I’d look like a badass if I just leaned into the punk/goth thing I was starting to do…I did and never looked back!
Probably someone's Grammy by now. Photo albums will scar your children's psyche
Kids' psyches aren't as easily scarred as people imagine. They can totally endure a super-cool Grandma.
Load More Replies...British Hurdler Percy Hodge Demonstrates The Perfect Obstacle Jump While Carrying A Bottle And A Glass On A Tray. Percy Hodge Became An Olympic Champion In The 3000m Hurdles In 1920
"Now, Percy shows the appropiate way to run away from a Frenchman you just had offered British wine..."
Oldriev’s New Tricycle. Photo By Chas. W Oldrieve, 1882
Yup, but how to get into the seat? Looks like some slightly undignified and unladylike squeezing is needed.... Is there an exemplar in a museum somewhere, @fellow pandas?
Load More Replies...Later Ms.Gulch would purchase and ride a more modern bike. Even in a tornado.
This is a great example of how bike wheel axles literally hang from the top of the rim in a constantly changing "loop" of tensioned steel spokes.
I'm fascinated by the lacing on these wheels, groupings into a mount at the halfway point, then either a heavier wire or solid rod to the hub. Very intriguing!
Load More Replies..."I'm not sure you'll find a theme in these images, or the blog posts, or even this website, but if you do, please tell me what it is – I'd love to know," Danny writes in the 'About' section of his personal blog. "I might even get a theme song written to go on the website, a 70's cop show sort of theme."
Lucille Ball, Once Called The Greatest Pair Of Legs On Broadway, In A 1930s Publicity Still As A Blonde
It's just the shadow of her palm. The hand is slightly tilted with the palm toward the camera and the reflection plus the shadow make it look weird. Zoom in and you can see it's really just her hand.
Load More Replies...This is from the movie "Roman Scandals" (1933). Ms Ball is briefly shown in this outfit chained to a post at a slave auction. All of the other woman at the same auction had similar wigs. Yes - all of the women were naked under the wigs - done for publicity. (PS "Roman Scandals" was actually a comedy, starring Eddie Cantor. )
There is a D**k Cavett show where she is a guest and he runs a clip of that movie and they talk about it. It’s hilarious. He has a channel and it’s worth watching. She’s great.
Wyatt Earp (March 19, 1848 - January 13, 1929) Photographed By His Wife Josephine Earp
Never mess with a old man, in a profession, where men usually die when young.
Load More Replies...he looks eerily like my grandad o.O (I think it's the mustache and the balding hair more than anything, making me think that though xD)
A Champagne Inspector Wearing A Special Mask To Protect Against Accidental Discharges, Ca. 1933
By "accidental discharges" they actually mean exploding bottles. If you mess up the dosage, the amount of sugar you add per bottle to generate the carbonation and fizz, kaboom. Glass shrapnel is not good for the face or the rest of the body for that matter.
Glass shrapnel is totally safe, you're just shilling for Big Mask.
Load More Replies...Me: "champagne inspector" looks like a really cool job Her: "you're not ready boy"
She's actually a choreographer for Madonna. (Katy Perry for you whipper-snappers.)
Accidental discharge sounded like "accidentally" drinking half the bottle between bar and customer - that has happened to me too
As a creator of three separate communities and a blog about art, music, media, and history, Danny comes across as quite the fan of all things fascinating. "I've always liked to share things I find of interest, and my subreddits reflect that," Danny says. "They've grown into quite active communities now and are a great place to spend some time."
Around 1890, A Mother And Her Son Were Captured In A Photograph Taken In Lisdoonvarna, Ireland. The Son, Who Was A Ballad Singer, Can Be Seen Holding A Printed Poem In His Hand
Unfortunately only men got the amenities, usually waited on by women.
Load More Replies...Vivienne Westwood would have killed to have designed that shawl.
Oh, it is a shawl! Very simple design. Give me a fleece. I will spin it and knit you one. Nothing to ot. Looks like plain stockinette stitch with boucle' yarn.
Load More Replies...Oh, Lisdoonvarna Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna! Where your son looks like like he could be your grandfather!
Two Kashmir Giants Posing With The American Photographer James Ricalton, 1903. One Of The Giants Was 7’9” Tall While The “Shorter” One Was A Mere 7’4” Tall
Thank you but I can see in the photo they are f*cking tall as we would say in the UK
Load More Replies...One football field is 345 ft, so the taller one is roughly 0.024 football fields tall.
Load More Replies...Husband And Wife, Sunday Morning, Detriot, Michigan, 1950 By Gordon Parks. He Had Been Sent Back To Fort Scott (Where He Lived Until He Was 16) By Life Magazine To Find 11 Members Of His Segregated Elementary School And See What Became Of Them. The Story Was Never Published
Google: The Gordon Parks Foundation gives an outline of the story.
With thanks to Hilary Gilbertson for the nudge, you'll find this particular project right here (but don't miss the rest of his timeless pictures): https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks/photography-archive/back-to-fort-scott-1950
What is it with our fascination with history, especially when we see it in old-timey pictures? In an earlier interview, writer, visual artist, and photographer Margaret Sartor told Bored Panda that "all historical photographs are a window into the past, but beyond the facts (or a nostalgia for the past), they may indicate little else."
Old Vennel, Glasgow. From Thomas Annan’s Photograph Series Of ‘The Old Closes And Streets Of Glasgow’ 1868
For those whom may not be familiar with the world "Close', it's a Scottish word meaning alleyway or courtyard entry point.
Must be a fake. Look at the washing dangling out of nowhere on nothing, with strange shadows.
These types of posts are my favorite things to see on BP, I love this! Look at that moment frozen in time from 1868!! It's amazing!
The Coffin Of The Red Baron Being Carried By Members Of The Australian No. 3 Squadron, Lead By An English Priest, For Burial In Northern France. The Ace Pilot Of World War I Germany Was Shot Down On April 21, 1918, And Given A Full Military Funeral By The Australian Unit Who Recovered His Body
I believe his real name should be mentioned. Manfred von Richtofen was not an aggressive combatant. Instead he was a skilled military tactician. He died April 21 1918, as SCamp says, likely by a ground AA shot. He is considered an ace of aces in WWI, credited with 80 kills. He flew with the Albatros D. I, II, III, and V models, before switching to his famous Fokker Dr.1 triplane. His plane was scrapped, and the largest remains can be seen at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra as well as the Imperial War Museum in London
My Grandfather is the second officer pallbearer on the right of the coffin. He was a pilot with No3 Squadron and survived WW1: Lt Jack Treacy.
I knew an old guy in the 60s who was related to the Red Baron, his grandmother was a Von Richthofen. He was mercenary pilot in south America in his younger days, quite a charcter.
Wiki says: He died in 21 April 1918 (aged 25) Near Morlancourt, France and was buried in South Cemetery, Wiesbaden, Germany
An Ultra Light Horse-Drawn Car In Traffic Paris (1943)
Actually it's around 15 hp. Still horse s**t to deal...
Load More Replies...Hahaha, if you've read other BP posts this morning, you'll know someone was just messing with a panoramic camera. (JK)
Stick a c**p catcher under the tail and I'd happily use one of these today. Don't know WHERE I could aside from Amish country, but still...
Not necessarily. Most likely wearing a crupper (aka a bag) underneath it's tail to catch the poop and the pee would just run down the legs.
Load More Replies...B******t and you know it. The cheapest full EV currently available on the EU market is the Dacia Spring, selling at EUR 18,100 (USD 19,481) while the state is giving grants of about EUR 10,400, so the final price is EUR 7,700. (USD 8,287). You tell me of another brand new car that retails that low, be it ICE, EV or hybrid...
Load More Replies...However, in some cases, they also might change our minds about a thing or two. "Some historical photographs have the power to subvert familiar narratives and carry with them the possibility of expanding or upending our understanding of our own history," Sartor explained back then.
Charles Godefroy Flies Through The Arc De Triomphe In Paris. The Height Of The Opening Is 29.42 M, The Width Is 14.62 M. The Wingspan Of The Aircraft Is 9 Meters Wide, 1919
Plenty of room considering the stall speed of that plane is about 40kph.
A middle school classmate's dad got drunk and did that under a bridge over the Wisconsin River back in the 1960s. He got arrested, but we all secretly admired him.
Children Playing With A Toy Guillotine, France, 1959
Last execution by guillotine in France was 1977, believe it or not. That seems crazy to me.
I mean, I'd rather have the guillotine than the electric chair or lethal injection.
Load More Replies...This is a scene from the 1951 movie La Poison. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043927/mediaindex?page=3&ref_=tt_mv_close
I knew it looked much more cinematic than realistic. Thank you!
Load More Replies...What makes this all the more disturbing is that France did not discontinue use of the guillotine until 1981, and last executed someone with one in 1977.
It's far more disturbing that capital punishment is still in practice in the U.S. today.
Load More Replies...G.o.e Herbert Tea & Dining Rooms, 10 New Street, Chipping Norton, England. 1910
Oh wow, this was a butchers following that (I was the Chef at the pub just over the road for a few years (The Blue Boar - look it up ).
She also told us that it doesn't take a professor to be a master at photography. "Anyone could be a photographer, just like anyone can draw or write a sentence if they can hold a pencil; the camera is simply a machine, a tool, a medium."
"A photographer, in any era, is someone who chooses to use the camera as a way to explore or discover something about the world or their place in it. You can capture an authentic moment even with an iPhone – it's the idea behind it, the feeling that it gives the viewer that matters."
Taken During The Sinking Of The Estonia In The Baltic Sea, 1994. The Photographer Was Using The Camera Flash To Try Signaling For Help. He And The Man Pictured Are Clinging To The Exterior Overturned Keel Of The Sinking Ferry. Both Men Survived. 852 Of The 989 Onboard Perished
Vrak Museet in Stockholm has a really informative exhibit on this and the sinking of several other ships in the Baltic
For the non-swedes: vrak museet = the wreck museum
Load More Replies...Being 7 years old at the time, I distinctly remember this (along with the Balkan war, obviously) being one of the first big news stories that registered in my young mind. A couple years later I saw a documentary about the tragedy and its causes and it gave me nightmares about going on a big open body of water and I'm still not a fan.
I was just old enough to read the headlines myself. For years, I was terrified of the same thing happening every time I went on a boat.
Load More Replies...This might be a multiple-exposure. When I was a kid I discovered that dropping a disposable camera on the ground was enough of a shock to open the shutter mechanism and cause the flash to go off, even if the film was all the way advanced and you had no exposures left.
Load More Replies...A French Civilian Woman Pours A Drink Of Cider For A British Soldier With Bren Machine Gun In Lisieux, 1944
My great uncle was injured in France around the same time and was served some Calvados by a nice old French woman while he was laying on the ground. We have a drink of it every January to celebrate the rifle across his back that stopped blown-up bridge debris from killing him! And the nice lady.
Reminds me of a picture I've seen of an Afghani man offering a US troop (soldier or marine, I forget) some tea while he's holding a position.
He appears in a combat position while she casually offers a refreshing drink. French can be so blasé.
One of my great great grandfathers was in the british royal army (sniper for scottish black watch specifically) and helped liberate parts of france. The french towns he helped save refused to provide him or other allied fighters water
that picture alone proves your BS / hate propaganda/ french-bashing./ pathetic liar.
Load More Replies...Puritan Demonstrates Against Too Revealing Swimwear On A Florida Beach, 1985. USA
Puritanism = the obsessive fear that someone, somewhere, is not miserable all the time.
If "heaven" is the place where all these religious nuts and bigots are going, then I am very happy to be headed for "hell"
The family priest once described hell as "the complete and total absence of god". ....sounds heavenly to me.
Load More Replies...1985 !!! I mean this was not 1885 ! what's wrong with these crazy guys...
I know that's definitely not 1985, more like 1975
Load More Replies...If we could harvest all the f@ck$ not given in this picture, well, we would sure be rich in f@ck$
What's both sad and hilarious is that Jesus made it very clear that He just hated people like her.
Yep, judging from the cars in the background that seems about right.
Load More Replies...Photographs aren't the truth, but they can help us get to it, Sartor told Bored Panda. "As human beings and citizens, we are constantly trying to see ourselves and our ever-changing, often conflicted world as clearly as we can—hoping it matters, hoping we matter, wondering what happens next."
"The magic of photography is that photographs move us in ways we can neither control nor can we fully explain, and in that sense, they remind us that ordinary life is suffused with mysteries."
Riders On The New York Subway Sit Without Newspapers During A Newspaper Strike In The City (1953)
Except people today would be rioting, because their rights were being squashed.
Load More Replies...For the time it's like you imagine a full subway without any smartphone
Oh, the horrors! We have to TALK to each other! LOLOLOL! Just kidding.
Smug dude on the left brought a book- that’d be me! I still carry a book with me when I go out.
An Iron Man Of The Past In A Diving Suit. The Suit’s Name Was ‘Iron Man’ Too. It Had Electric Charging And Pressure Protection Systems. New York, 1907
When you have to go deep and they hadn't discovered pre-breathing yet. They discovered when constructing the Brooklyn Bridge that when you breathe compressed air for a significant time at around 50m below sea level, you get really sick when you come back up. They called it Caisson Disease.
Now it's just called DCI--decompression illness!
Load More Replies...I get overwhelmed with anxiety and absolute terror when I think of being in that suit.
Inspiration for Robbie the Robot? In the 1950s and 1960s, a single robot costume was used in dozens of movies, including the absolute legend, "The Forbidden Planet, and a few episodes of the hit TV show, "Lost in Space," not to be confused with a main character of Lost in Space.
Mister Bubbles! (Sorry, I just finished playing through Bioshock again :)
A Piglet Which Is Being Treated By The Pdsa (People’s Dispensary For Animals) In Ilford With A Sun Ray Lamp, To Cure A Skin Ailment, 1938
Lucky little piggy but I've a suspicion that there are ulterior motives involved here
Not if it was the PDSA, the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. They did not do animal experiments, they were a veterinary service with low costs.
Load More Replies...The amount of money that goes into research and treatments aimed at bettering the lives of animals never fails to astound considering all of it would be much better spent on the endeavor of bettering the health of thousands of humans who lack access to even the most basic healthcare.
Lots of money is spent on research for treatments for humans as well as animals, but when you have societies that promote for-profit healthcare, then you will always have an issue where if you can't afford to pay then you get no care.
Load More Replies...A Soviet Light Bath: An Ultraviolet Light For Children To Get Enough Vitamin D During The Long Winters Without Much Sunlight
They're impressive underpants reminds me when I was young, we referred to them as 'Kidney Grippers'
By Alfred Eisenstaedt. Student Nurses Getting Lessons, Roosevelt Hospital NY, 1938
Not a single notebook? How do they all remember everything that was taught?
Think that is an anatomy lecture theatre, for practical showing and learning. Meanwhile the notebooks will be right in front of them, you just can't see them because the angles.
Load More Replies...Mostly yes, but bottom left looks like she has a bun.
Load More Replies...Different hospitals or status with different uniforms too
Because Of The Influenza Epidemic, Open-Air Police Court Being Held In Portsmouth Square, San Francisco. To Prevent Crowding Indoors, Judges Held Outdoor Court Sessions. (1918-1919)
But with air currents and uv exposure, it was still healthier than being inside. Our ancestors weren't as stupid as we are.
Load More Replies...Exactly no one who has read history forgets about the Spanish flu, as it was known. It wiped out more people than WWI.
Load More Replies...1963: A Clown At The Lunch Counter
"I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy."
‘Coffin Beds’ At A Salvation Army Shelter In London. Operated By The Salvation Army, They Are One Of The First Homeless Shelters Created For The People Of Central London. Aka "Four Penny Coffin", For Four Pennies, A Homeless Client Could Stay At A Coffin House, C.1900
Batter than the flop houses, where you were unable to even lie down but spent the night semi-upright leaning on a rope
And better than the work houses that would follow...
Load More Replies...You should look up the other types of night accommodations back then. One was a bench and a rope I believe. That's where the term hangover comes from.
It seems this has no basis per Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hangover-drunken-sailors-ropes/
Load More Replies...Wooden frames, lined with oilcloth to help reduce incidence of bedbugs and other vermin. Fred Saberhagen has a good depiction of one of these facilities in his novel, 'The Holmes-Dracula File', set in London in the late 1890s.
Seeing Two Mickeys On A Parisian Street In The Early 1930’s Either Elicited Pure Delight Or Sheer Terror
Lol! Yep!😂 There's a furniture store in Longford called 'Big Mickey's' I don't know how they get away with it 😂 It's logo alone elicits sheer terror from me.
Load More Replies...Dr. Lewis Sayre Treating Scoliosis, Checking The Curvature Of The Spine - 1870s
Halo-Gravity Traction is still used in the treatment of scoliosis.
Load More Replies...Oh, that poor woman is really bent out of shape - and I don't mean that as a joke. Look at how her muscles are all bunched on the right side and how uneven her shoulders are.
A hanging up like this would do my back pain really good!!! Where can I get this without a weird doc checking out my curvature?
It's called spinal decompression treatment. Google it. I went from barely being able to walk and in great pain to being "normal", again. Truly a miracle treatment. .
Load More Replies...The Local Priest Takes A Strong Turn At The Front And Gives These Atala Cyclists A Break During Their Training Run In Preparation For The 1959 Giro D'italia Stage Race. Italy - Near Milan, 1959
A Swagman Using A Hollowed Gum Tree As A Campsite, 1880. A Swagman Was A Transient Labourer Who Travelled By Foot From Farm To Farm Carrying His Belongings In A Swag (Bedroll). The Term Originated In Australia In The 19th-Century And Was Later Used In New Zealand
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
A Lady Is Arrested During The Battle Of Cable Street, 1936. For Those Unaware, The Battle Was Between The Residents Of East London And Oswald Mosley's Facist Blackshirts
Used to have lovely old couple who lived across the road from us. The husband had lived in this area as a child and had seen these riots. He hated the Oswald's fascists as they were b*stards" and he seen one smash a bottle into a policeman's horse's face...
April 1974 - St. Cloud, Minnesota
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo but don't tell me - I've nothing to do.
Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all!
Load More Replies...I never saw Howdy Doody so didn't know he played him. Cool.
Load More Replies...Met Mr. Keeshan in person. His daughter married the son of the owner of the company I was working for. He came several times to the facility. he would go around and talk to everyone. Really nice gentleman.
Apparently I met him when I was about 3 or 4. There's a few pics in the family photo album of my mom holding me and he was in the pic. Apparently he was filming at the San Diego Zoo and we were there on vacation. I was also on the Lincoln, Nebraska version of Romper Room back in the late 70's also.
Loved watching his show when I was a kid! Him and Mr. Green Jeans. Bill Cosby had a segment on the show called Picture Pages.
Straw Hats Made By Messrs Olney's Of Luton, Bedfordshire Being Carried To The Packing Rooms, 1933
A few English clubs are known as The Hatters, Stockport County is as well.
Load More Replies...A Telepath Tries To Hypnotise A Chimpanzee, 1941
To me that chimp's facial expression says, 'Do I do what we do best? (i.e. rip your genitalia and face clean off) Or do I humour this fool and get the banana?
Load More Replies...That is a very young chimp. An adult chimp would be as large, if not larger, than the man.
'The Half Suit' Photo And Concept By Pippa Garner, 1982
Quality Control At Emi's Vinyl Lp Pressing Plant In London (1965). The Beatles Rubber Soul
She did her job well. "Rubber Soul" was an album of outstanding quality.
Wernher Von Braun, Designer Of The Saturn V , Poses In Front Of Its Engines (1969). Braun Was The Head Of The German Rocket Industry In World War II. At The End Of The War, He Was Brought To The US
Gather 'round while I sing you of Werner Von Braun, a man whose allegiance was ruled by expedience . . .
Load More Replies...He was pen pals with Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and occultist)! Von Braun was just 17 and Parsons was 13.
Yup, and I thank THE X-FILES for bringing it to my attention back in 1995. If I hadn't been running an episode guide at the time, I might not have looked into the story and just taken it at face value. One of the reasons I loved the show was how much real history went into so many storylines.
Load More Replies...A huge proportion of high-up German scientists were inducted into the SS - it was helpful in order for them to hold positions of authority and issue orders. The SS was not only about brutality and murder.
Load More Replies...Mask-Maker And Nebraskan Artist Doane Powell (1881-1951)
1st Black South African Olympians, Len Taunyane (Left) & Jan Mashiani (Right), Raced Barefoot In 1904 Olympics. Despite Challenges, Taunyane LED Until Chased By Wild Dogs, Finishing 9th & 12th
Pretty disgusting story, actually: "Mashiani and Taunyane first garnered notice during an event series organised by the fair’s Department of Anthropology. The “Anthropology Days” formed part of a trilogy of exhibitions that also included “Barbarian Days” and “Philippine Tribal Contests”, racially and culturally defined sporting events in which people of various nationalities and ethnicities competed against one another for the amusement of white audiences. “Pygmies” from central Africa were, for instance, set up in an intramural mud fight. The hypothesis was, as the header of the American Olympic Committee put it at the time, “that the average savage was fleet of foot, strong of limb, accurate with the bow and arrow and expert in throwing the stone”. A headline from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch suggests the mores of the intellectual compass of this crackpot university: “Barbarians meet in Athletic Games”. Writing about the fair, in particular its oddly Victorian anthropology exhibition"
A Tactical Trick Used By Soldiers During The Mexican Revolution, 1913
Yeah 👍🏻, being underneath "500kg of fear", with my head near the most ticklish parts of a horse while making loud noises ... what could go wrong🥴🫣
Load More Replies...Tactical for sure but you have to hope your horse do not enjoy too much the situation.
A Pair Of Entertainers Unpacking Their Dummy Friend In 1925
Bergen had some clever lines but he was a terrible ventriloquist
Load More Replies..."Unpacking their dummy friend" is such a strange sentence! I bet somewhere out there, there's a movie with two guys hauling their dead (dumb) friend out of a car's trunk
“Only In The Provinces Are The Great Melancholy Cultivated, The Silence And Solitude Essential To Succeed In Such A Tiring Sport As Cycling” The Words Of Gianni Brera Are Reflected On The Face Of Giusto Cerutti, The Piedmontese Runner Immortalized During The 1928 Tour De France
Wow I was gonna write "Mr Bean does not look happy"
Load More Replies...Marchand D’abat-Jour (Lampshade Seller), Rue Lepic, 1900
Boo-Koo Hamburger Stand In Harlingen, Texas. Burgers 5 Cents, Chili A Dime, Breakfast Two Bits, The 7up Is Real. (Photo By Russell Lee. February 1939)
You can add lots of stuff to hamburgers as filler. Ham, eggs, and coffee have to speak for themselves.
Load More Replies...Why was it important to write that the 7up is real? Were the hamburgers not?
It was part of the original 7-UP slogan, not added by the hamburger stand.
Load More Replies...Wilton Lackaye As Svengali
Haha! Am sitting at the hospital with my oldest kid and it's just been a pretty bad afternoon/evening for us. (Mostly for her, obviously). But your comment, SCamp, made me smile with a little bit of sound. Thank you for that 😊
Load More Replies...What's up with his eyes? Is that a mask? How do you show that much white around the irises?
Just like some folks have an extra fold on their eyelid, others of can do the all white , possessed person look. My right eye is slightly narrower, so it adds a nice touch of insanity to the look.
Load More Replies...Families Whose Relatives Were Buried In A Cemetery That Was To Be Covered By Norris Lake Had The Option To Have Their Loved One Dug Up And Moved To A New Cemetery. Campbell County, Tennessee, Early 1930s
I had to move my infant son who had been buried over 20 years because the cemetery had been sold to the city by force. It was not a fun situation. I was compensated and they tried to make it as less traumatizing as possible but you cant minimize it that much in a situation like that.
Load More Replies...Wow. Had the option to move the casket or leave them to be buried and more than likely unearthed by the water. That must have been horrific.
I'd say just leave the bodies. What's the point of moving them and retraumatizing yourself.
London Olympics, 1908, I Have No Info About This Photo But It's Utterly Unique
Women Riding Chinese Men Working As Porters, Using A Frame To Mount, Control And Steer Them As A Means Of Transport. The Woman On The Left Is A Canadian, Ethel Vinden Née Dickson With The Protestant Missionary Group China Inland Mission. China, 1920s
OMG I've studied colonization by the British Empire but this is a whole new level. No wonder china rebelled.
How did they shoehorn in "love they neighbor" while treating them like animals? JFC.
They did it to feel good about themselves. Why, we're treating these Godless savages just like they were people! And when we get home, we're building our colored maid her very own bathroom!
Load More Replies...Chrysler Corporation Offers $2,000 To Anyone At The 1976 Chicago Auto Show Who Could Break The Composure Of Living Mannequin Nancy Del Corral
My dad once touched the arm of a living mannequin because he was fascinated it looked so real. He was beyond embarrassed when he realized she was, in fact, a real person.
Hark back to when we were in France on a school trip, and we went to Disney. There was a living statue at the entrance, and he would stand stone still a bit then suddenly move into a different pose, and repeat. And this has been seen as we were walking through. So, as there seems to have to be always, there were the biach girls group that no one liked (the feeling obviously being neutral on both sides), and they decided to dare each other to go up to him and try make him fall off his pedisal. Because hilarious, right? So one goes up, and because the bloke ain't def, he suddenly changed pose, smacking (lightly. Only hurt her ego) the biach in the face and sends her flying! X ) And, naturally, all of everyone else, bar the teachers of course (although there was some strained faces by more than one) started laughing ourselves to the point nearly wetting ourselves! ... She was not amused, however, at being the laughing stock. Didums
I used to play "mannequin" when my mom and I were at the mall. I scared the bejeebers out of a very sweet older couple when I sneezed.
Yeah violence is the first thing that comes to mind when you tell a woman to smile and she doesn’t.
Load More Replies...Blind Wwi Veteran’s Marriage, 1921
And your correction tells me you knew what they meant anyway and still chose to be insufferable.
Load More Replies...I couldn't see at my wedding, but that was due to the fainting, of course.
Air Travel Ltd's Fox Moth Biplane At Bruce Bay, Westland, New Zealand, September 1935
Do we really have to call attention to the fact that it's a biplane, can't we just see it as a plane and not bring the bi into things?
Dr. Hawley Crippen After His Arrest On Board The Montrose, July 1910. Crippen Was Fleeing After Murdering His Wife In London. He Was Arrested With His Mistress Who Was Dressed Disguised As Boy
Amazing how many women think it's a good idea to link up with someone who offend the previous post holder
Amazing how many women used to have to wait on a partner, any partner, to provide for them.
Load More Replies...Didn’t they recently do a DNA test on Mrs Crippens skin remains (which led to his conviction and execution) and discovered it belonged to a man? 😬
A Fake Ghost Scene Taken By Two Brothers, Circa 1900s-1910s
Don’t forget the two sisters who fooled everyone for real with their proof that fairies existed. They only confessed and to.d the truth when the last one was dying. Had everyone fooled for 80 years.
Load More Replies...That's the clearest photo of 'Paranormal' activity, even for today.
This Photo Was Taken By Ethnologist Nils Keyland In Mangskog Parish, Värmland, Sweden In 1922. The Man Is Holding A Type Of Bloodletting Instrument Known As A Fleam
Shocking to find that blood-letting was still used as a medical treatment as late as this.
You still can find places that offer Cupping therapy, which is a form of blood-letting in Finland. Not that it actually works on anything, but people use all kinds of bs "medicine" everywhere
Load More Replies...It can helps in only a few cases (Polycythemia vera), as a nurse i have done that only twice in the 20 last years. I can't imagine when they did that to people already weak...
I read about one of my ancestors that he was in his 50s and working during a heatwave in the fields. He collapsed and fell to the ground unconscious. They recovered him and placed him in a bed and for days (!!!) they would bloodlet him in order to help him recover. Obviously it didn't help and he died. Nowadays this is completely silly. He probably just needed some fluids and a cold place to rest (my guess). But they decided to drain his fluids. I am just happy to live in a medically more developed world.
Welsh Spiritualist Colin Evans Feigns Levitation By Jumping Up And Down In Total Darkness And Filming Himself With An Infrared Camera. London, 1939
1934 Dance Marathon Participants At Crystal Lake Park In Marion, Ohio
One of my favourite movies, "They Shoot Horses Don't They?", is about those dance marathons and how desperate people were to participate in the hope of winning
A decade or two earlier, and she'd have been arrested for wearing them.
Load More Replies...8-Year-Old Freddie Mcintosh In A Sun Protection Suit
Did he have some medical condition that would have been negatively affected by sunlight?
Not very much about him (that I could find) but yes, he had an illness that made his skin sensitive to the sun and daylight. https://knowlegewisdom.quora.com/https-snapshotsofhistory-quora-com-Freddie-McIntosh-8-wears-a-mask-and-covers-his-hands-and-knees-to-protect-them-agai
Load More Replies...Boy Poses With Deceased Brother - 1800s Tintype - Found At Thrift Store
Posed post-mortem photos were popular at the time, but I don't think this was it. Both boys have something like a support frame behind them so that they can stand still - the exposure time of the photo required it.
I agree. Deceased people tend not to hold hats very well.
Load More Replies...Weren't deceased people usually sat down or held for pictures? How would the boy on the right be able to stand in that position, if he were deceased?
Also if you notice, the boys are slightly fuzzy, not totally clear. That’s because they were Moving. If they were dead they would be clearer
The boy on the lefts feet are blurry and the boy on the rights head is blurry. This means both were moving and not dead.
My great aunt use to carry a stack of photos of propped up dead children, creepy with sunken eyes but dressed up in their finest. As a kid I was unaware they wear dead!
1942, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, Orson Welles At The Carnival
He was one of the most innovative directors of all time, as well as being a good actor. Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, etc.
Costermonger Joesph Carney Sells Fresh Herring From His Barrow In The Market Of Seven Dials, London. 1877
I was an extra in a BBC period drama set in London for a few days back in 2002 so I have some memory experiencing life like this 😂
Wasn't there a reality show where a family tried to live a Victorian life style?
Load More Replies...Costermonger: a person who sells goods, especially fruit and vegetables, from a handcart in the street.
Cloth Fair, Smithfield, 1906, With What Appears To Be Weeds On Top Of A Ledge, On Close Inspection Looks Like Dead Plants In Pots. A Little Girl Plays With A Doll In A Box Pulled Along By String. Why An Opened Door So High Up?
Firstly, fresh air but also dumping of old hay. So many slept in hayloft not beds back then. My parents both did....
The door/window is roughly 90 pixels tall, the child in the same plane of view about 94. The man on the left, farther back so looking smaller, is about 124 pixels. So I think you're right, it's a window.
Load More Replies...I guess that's not a door but a small window. It's clearly smaller than any windows in the photo.
Probably there was another house attached (notice the roof isn't extending over the door) that was removed and they kep the door as a window.
Salvation Army Preacher Captain R. Brodie, Dressed Up In Costume To Make His Messages, Called "Character Sermons," More Visual & Memorable, Pictured In North London In 1911
Rural Life In England, Photographed By William Morris Grundy In 1855
Boren City Citizens Await The Appearance Of The Virgin Mary At The Viaduct, Not Far From The Christian School, Where Children Allegedly Observed Her The Day Before. Belgium, 1933
"Boren" would have to be Beauraing: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauraing
Explorer Henry Morton Stanley And His Adopted Son Kalulu, 1872. Born Ndugu M’hali He Would Only Live For 12 Years But In That Time He Visited Europe, America And The Seychelles. He Had A Book Dedicated To Him, A Model In Madame Tussauds, And Was A Guest At David Livingstone's Funeral
Why did his adopted son, Kalulu not have clothing on like him? The boy looks unhappy. Looks like he treated him more like a servant than anything.
he drowned during an expedition with five others
Load More Replies...Rudolph Pohorschelek In 1864, Vienna, Austria. Victorian Manspreading…
I'm a woman. This is how I sit. I call it the lezspread - When a lesbian does a manspread, but it's hotter.
A Circus Performer In An Aquarium Car With Crocodiles, Berlin, 1933
"South End On Sea" Take By Chris Steele Perkins, These Are Called Teddy Boy's If You Don't Know. 1976
They told me those soles were crepe...but I thought they were comfortable...
Teddy boys were a thing like punks, mods, or rockers. It was a way of dressing.
Load More Replies...After World War II, male youths in delinquent gangs who had adopted Edwardian-era fashion were sometimes known as Cosh Boys, or Edwardians. The name Teddy Boy was coined when a 23 September 1953 Daily Express newspaper report headline shortened Edwardian to Teddy.
Because apostrophes determine the meaning of the word they're used within.
Load More Replies...Edward Viii Wearing Japanese Garb While On A Tour Of Japan As Prince Of Whales In 1922
I guess it's better to be Prince of "Whales" than Lord of the Flies
It's just research. They're researching how many whales they can kill within a specific time frame. (not mine, this came from Good Omens)
Load More Replies...His obliviousness to mismatches later cost him the throne.
Load More Replies...Interestingly enough, George IV got called "the Prince of Whales" during the Regency Era due his obesity.
His grandson, Edward VII, also got that nickname while prince because of his similar dimensions.
Load More Replies...These were posted here not too long ago but I don't mind seeing them again
These were posted here not too long ago but I don't mind seeing them again
