Utterly Unique Photos

Dr. Lewis Sayre treating scoliosis, checking the curvature of the spine – 1870s

Bride leaving her recently bombed home to go to get married in London, November 4th from 1940

Raquel Welch being crucified in an anachronistic publicity still for One Million Years B.C., directed by Don Chaffey, 1966. Photographed by Terry O’Neil.

Joan Vollmer, Morningside heights, NYC, ca 1944. On Sept. 6, 1951 Vollmer was shot in the head by beat author William S Burroughs during a drunken game of William Tell, she died instantly. Details in comments.

Retired Heads of State at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum storage. October 1979.

Oscar “Zeta” Acosta Fierro photographed after finding fame following the release of the book ‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’. He would disappear in May 1974, aged 39.

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)

Unknown Factory Worker Woman, WW2

Though he developed an infection, Gage eventually recovered, losing vision in one eye but regaining his health within a year. Full story: https://historicflix.com/phineas-gage-the-man-who-survived-a-hole-through-his-head/

Bonnie and Clyde’s crime wave took the lives of thirteen people including multiple members of law enforcement. On May 23, 1934, police officers from Louisiana and Texas concealed themselves in bushes along a highway near Sailes, Louisiana. In the early daylight, Bonnie and Clyde appeared in an automobile and when they attempted to drive away, …

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