One-of-a-Kind Photos Not Everyone Has Come Across
The Internet gives us the illusion of having all the information in the world at our fingertips. But you don't go around sharing fun facts with your family, and you don't know everything there's to know about everything, either. So, no matter how long you spend online, you still have tons of things to discover, whether it's historical facts, behind-the-scenes trivia from your favorite TV shows, or cool information about a topic you never thought to research.
There are corners of the internet you haven't discovered yet, and they have tons of interesting material to check out, like photos of your favorite actors in high school, pictures from the war that make you think long and hard, or even jobs you didn't know existed decades ago but aren't around anymore.
So, to expand your curiosity beyond the limits of the internet, here are some one-of-a-kind photos not everyone has come across. Not even you, probably!
The Beast of Jersey
This is one of the masks worn by serial assaulter Edward Paisnel between 1957 and 1971.
State Hospital Staff in 1898
Wearing creepy skull masks for some reason.
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi
In their New York apartment in the 1970s, ready to change comedy forever with SNL.
Alan Rickman
At 14 years old in 1964.
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
In the 1920s, still influencing our lives today.
Robert Bloch
Writing his novel Psycho in the 1950s.
Awarded Speed Skater
Norwegian Oscar Mathisen and his medals in the early 1900s.
Neil Armstrong fishing
In Iceland, during his training at NASA.
Iwo Jima, 1945
A soldier smiling while reading his mail.
Indian Soldiers in WWI
Arriving in France in 1914. It's considered the largest volunteer military force in human history, with more than 2 million soldiers.
Vietnam Selective Service
This lottery determined the order in which American men would be called to the Vietnam War.
Hunter S. Thompson
Shooting his typewriter.
Freddie Mercury
Getting ready in the dressing room.
Louvre Pyramid
Under construction in Paris in 1981.
EMI Studios in 1965.
An employee is quality testing The Beatles' Rubber Soul vinyl pressings while all her friends envied her job.
Amy Winehouse
Rare photo from April 2005, taken for a project celebrating the female form in aid of The Lavender Trust charity at Breast Cancer Now.
Pay Television
A 1963 kid watching TV with a slot meter. He has coins in his purse in case he runs out of time.
Camping in the 1920s
With a tent trailer kitchen and everything.
Norma Jeane Dougherty
Later known as Marilyn Monroe, at 18 years old.
Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum
He was the only person hanged in the history of Union County, New Mexico Territory, and the execution was botched due to inexperienced executioners who used a long rope and ended up decapitating him.
