35 Old School Photos That Made Our Skin Crawl

Is it just me, or does just about every black and white photo give off a creepy vibe? Photography has developed so much since its inception. Just imagine if they hat iPhones during WWII, or in the 1800s. I think we’d have a much different perspective.

1. “Martin Luther King Jr. With His Son, Pulling Up A Burnt Cross From The Front Lawn Of His Atlanta Home, April 1960”

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2. “A Letter From Schizophrenic Patient Emmy Hauck To Her Husband. It Consists Only Phrase “Herzensschatzi Komm” (Darling Please Come) And ‘Komm Komm Komm’ (Come, Come, Come) Repeated Over And Over”

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3. “If You Ever Wondered How The American Buffalo Could Go From 30,000,000 To 300 In 50 Years, Pictures Like This May Give Some Idea (Buffalo Skulls)”

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4. “Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929”

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5. “Tim Curry On The Set Of ‘It’ (1990)”

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6. “Children After Working In The Mine”

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7. “Halloween Costumes From The 1930s”

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8. “A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion – There’s Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling”

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9. “Anti-Electricity Propaganda From 1900”

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10. “So My Aunt Casually Tells Me Today That She Once Found A Ton Of Skeletons In Her Garden”

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11. “It Drinks”

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12. “Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century”

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13. “A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women’s Skin From The Sun In The 1920s”

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14. “Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madame Tussaud’s London Museum”

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15. “A 16th Century Plague Doctors MaskA 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask”

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16. “Washing A Crucifix, 1938”

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17. “Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair”

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18. “A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt”

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19. “Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War”

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20. “Linda Blair’s Makeup Tests For ‘The Exorcist’ (1973)”

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21. “Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s”

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22. “Old Doll Factory”

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23. “Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930s”

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24. “1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp’s Pork & Beans”

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25. “17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane”

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26. “The Moon From The French 1902 Movie ‘A Trip To The Moon'”

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27. “A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955”

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28. “A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage”

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29. “Humpty Dumpty 1939”

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30. “‘Hell’s Cafe’ In Paris 1920s”

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31. “The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963”

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32. “Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother”

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33. “A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s”

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34. “Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s”

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35. “Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908”

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h/t: BoredPanda

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