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Weird, Wonderful Photos From the Archives (34 photos)

While doing my job, researching photos for various stories, I always come across more interesting images than I need, or photos that are unrelated to the story, yet are still remarkable, strange, hilarious, or just a great shot. The best of those, I’ve been tucking into a folder without a clear plan for future use. Today, I offer a sampling from that folder—a grab bag of historic images depicting space travel, film making, horseplay, and more—from epic achievements to small moments. There isn’t really a theme here today, other than “I thought these were neat photos, many rarely seen, and thought you’d enjoy them as well.”

Original caption: Professional frogman Courtney Brown tows a 55-foot scale model of the sunken liner Titanic during work on the film Raise the Titanic! (released in 1980.) The screen version of the best selling novel by Clive Cussler dramatizes an attempt to raise the 46,000 ton wreck of the Titanic which is 2 ½ miles down on the floor of the North Atlantic. The model is described as “an exact replica costing $5,000,000.” (This replica ship still exists, rusting in bushes beside a water tank at the Malta Film Studios, visible on Google Maps.) (Bettmann / Getty)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/01/weird-wonderful-photos-from-the-archives/551378/