r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

: "In the 1920s-30s Alfred Cheney Johnston was hired by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld to photograph the showgirls from his theatre (otherwise known as the Ziegfeld Follies) - the results are absolutely exquisite. These are SFW, but the ones I've linked to below are a bit NSFW"

: "A Paris optician hires models, 1925."

: "Luigi Lineri, the Italian collector who gathers and chategorizes stones from the Adige River in Northern Italy for over 50 years"

: "On this day in 2005 Rosemary Kennedy passed away receiving the same 24 hour care that she had been receiving for 60 years after her father forced her to undergo a lobotomy. Starved of oxygen at birth, Joe Kennedy deemed her behaviour as a young woman to be potentially damaging to the family. "

: "Frances Day Photographed in 1935. Day was a starlet in the 1930s before disappearing into self imposed obscurity, and leaving her wealth to an unassuming employee in an office beneath her apartment, who knew her only as the friendly lady who lived upstairs."

: "Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä at Kinkomaa Hospital, central Finland, spring of 1940, sometime after getting shot by a Soviet sniper with an explosive bullet in his lower left jaw during the Winter War"

: "Neil Young at his Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California 1972, with ranch caretaker “Louis Avila” who Young wrote his classic song “Old Man” about."

: "On this day in 1936 Albert Fish was executed. He was responsible for at least 3 Murders, but the real number of Murders he committed is estimated to be much higher. This is an X-ray of Fish's pelvis and perineum, showing more than two dozen self-embedded needles. "

: "Convicted murderer Barbara Graham says goodbye to her two year old son Tommy before her Execution is carried out in 1955. She was convicted for her part in the brutal murder of Mabel Monohan. "