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”
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”
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)”
4. “Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929”
5. “Tim Curry On The Set Of ‘It’ (1990)”
6. “Children After Working In The Mine”
7. “Halloween Costumes From The 1930s”
8. “A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion – There’s Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling”
9. “Anti-Electricity Propaganda From 1900”
10. “So My Aunt Casually Tells Me Today That She Once Found A Ton Of Skeletons In Her Garden”
11. “It Drinks”
12. “Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century”
13. “A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women’s Skin From The Sun In The 1920s”
14. “Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madame Tussaud’s London Museum”
15. “A 16th Century Plague Doctors MaskA 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask”
16. “Washing A Crucifix, 1938”
17. “Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair”
18. “A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt”
19. “Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War”
20. “Linda Blair’s Makeup Tests For ‘The Exorcist’ (1973)”
21. “Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s”
22. “Old Doll Factory”
23. “Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930s”
24. “1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp’s Pork & Beans”
25. “17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane”
26. “The Moon From The French 1902 Movie ‘A Trip To The Moon'”
27. “A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955”
28. “A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage”
29. “Humpty Dumpty 1939”
30. “‘Hell’s Cafe’ In Paris 1920s”
31. “The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963”
32. “Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother”
33. “A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s”
34. “Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s”
35. “Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908”
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