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Ernst Haas - Angkor Wat, 1956.
Tall-Tale Postcard - Musk melons
Invasion of the Saucer Men, 1957.
Spirit Photography.
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Rodney Smith
Tanning vending machine, 1948.
Tall-Tale Postcard
Philippe Petit tightrope walking between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, August 7, 1974.
Lewis Sayre with his suspension device for the treatment of scoliosis, 1877.
John Meintz who was tarred and feathered for not supporting war bond drives, ca.1917-18.
Individual seats molded for astronauts at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Virginia, 1959.
Boxing match with a bear, New York, 1937.
18000 Soldiers Make Up Human Statue of Liberty, U.S. Army, Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, 1918.
Gwen Akin and Allan Ludwig - Curved Spine, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, 1985.
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Lobster Tea Party, 1938.
L'Étrange Créature du lac noir (Creature from the Black Lagoon), 1954.
Santa Claus Parade, Toronto.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
1950sunlimited: Shake it up!
Tall-Tale Postcard - Onions
viedomestique: A little girl hangs three Siamese kittens in socks on a washing line in a garden in Croydon, London, 21st of September 1946.
The world’s most interesting chimp.
The Beatles, 1965.
Tall-Tale Postcard - Sugar Beets
Pentti Sammallahti - Varanasi, India, 1999.
vieuxmetiers: Marc Riboud - Le peintre de la Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1953.
Gregori Maiofis - Belle Epoque, 2012.
vieuxmetiers: Steel Worker on Socony Mobil Building, 1955.
Shock-headed boy.
Rubber beauty masks, worn to remove wrinkles and blemishes, 1921.
Robot nounou.
Robert Wadlow, the tallest person in history, with his mother and younger brother, 1936.
Classic Humorous Photo from Life Magazine.
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Prosthetic Dentistry, 1914.
Paul Newman
Pacific Electric Railway streetcars stacked at a junkyard on Terminal Island, March 1956.
Lon Chaney Sr. as The Man in the Beaver Hat from the 1926 film London After Midnight.
Flying saucer found in the Hollywood Hills by importer Robert Balzer, 24th January 1957.
Charles C. Ebbets takes a photo from atop a skyscraper in New York City, 1905.
Bill & Wisdow O'Neal, Lookout Mountain, TN, 1917.
Motorized roller skates, 1961.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.
Japanese wearing gas masks, 1940’s.
Halloween, 1925.
Frederick William Park or ‘Fanny’. Transvestite in Victorian England, 1870.
Freckle Removal circa 1930.
Erwin Blumenfeld - An iconic photo of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in a Lucien Lelong gown swinging precariously off the Eiffel Tower, for Vogue 1939.
Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890.
Cedar Mill, Seattle, 1919.
Bernhardt Holtermann posing with the Holtermann Nugget, one of the largest gold nuggets ever found weighing in at 630 pounds, Sydney, c. 1875.
Baseball player Bobby Grich pours beer over Richard Nixon after the Angels win their first ever division title. Los Angeles. September 1979.
A man hypnotizing four people for the camera back when hypnosis was extensively practiced by reputable physicians for therapeutic use both as a form of anesthesia and as a cure for disease, c. 1845.
Un magasin de manteaux à Copenhague, au Danemark, en 1936.
Gary Cooper ou l'art de faire plusieurs choses en même temps.
Les dents de la mer (Jaws) - Dans les coulisses, 1975.
Leopard man
John Lennon
