20 Never-Before-Seen Vintage Photos Of Iconic Writers

It’s hard to imagine the full extent of someone’s life when we are only privy to small bits of information regarding people, even if it’s someone extremely famous. So when it comes to classic authors, one can imagine that there must be quite a bit we are not aware of beyond their famous writings that give insight into the inner workings of such illustrious minds.

Recently, a thread on X gained popularity for sharing a rare collection of vintage photos of these popular authors that most people have never seen before. Scroll below to check out this selection of retro images that give a rather unique insight into the lives of legendary authors that we are all otherwise quite familiar with.

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#1 J.R.R Tolkien In His Study With His Own Hand-Drawn Map Of Middle Earth

Lilybdcsa : He looks like one of his hobbits!

#2 A Daguerreotype Of A Young Frederick Douglass

#3 C. S. Lewis With A Pipe

#4 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois At Age 4

#5 Mark Twain With A Cat

LizzieBoredom : The cat thought his name was Mark Twine.

#6 Rare Portrait Of Virginia Woolf

#7 The The First Known Picture Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Rebecca Ferguson : Reaching in his coat for his anti-depressants…

#8 Rare Picture Of John Steinbeck

#9 Portrait Of Edgar Allan Poe, Believed To Be The Earliest Known Photograph Of Him

CocoHenri : Kinda understand the moustache now. Poe was amazingly prolific for someone with chronic depression

#10 Rare Daguerreotype Of Charles Dickens

#11 46-Year-Old Charles Darwin

#12 Last Photo Of Fyodor Dostoevsky While Alive

#13 Oscar Wilde Attending A Garden Party

Beak Hookage : The biopic sucked but casting Stephen Fry was absolutely perfect. The resemblance is bang on.

#14 Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The Day Of His Liberation After 8 Years In The Gulag

#15 The Only Color Picture Of Leo Tolstoy

Pyla : The only COLORIZED photo of Leo Tolstoy.

#16 Jorge Luis Borges Poses With Bread Basket On His Head

#17 Franz Kafka With His Dog

#18 Ernest Hemingway With His Chauffeur Adamo Simon

Michael None : The bottle checks out. He was an absolute drunk.

#19 Portrait Of A Young Sigmund Freud

Beak Hookage : He’s totally thinking about his mother right now.

#20 A Rare Portrait Of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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50 Christmas Trees Taken To The Next Level

Don’t like fake Christmas trees and think it’s wrong to chop a tree just to keep it in your living room for a few weeks? Turns out anything can become a Christmas tree – you just have to get creative!

From trees made of vegetables, lab flasks and even bacteria – Bored Panda has compiled a list of the most unique improvised Christmas tree ideas and proved a little imagination can go a long way. Check them out in the gallery below!

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#1 Christmas Tree At A Public Library

#2 Levitating Christmas Tree

#3 My Lab Has A New Christmas Tree…

#4 Made Our Own Christmas Tree Where We Are Deployed

#5 My Living Succulent Christmas Tree

#6 My Office Christmas Tree Portal Version

#7 Two Hand Saws Turned Into Christmas Tree

#8 This Tree That The Art Center In My Home Town Put Up

#9 Christmas Tree At Local Sheriff’s Office

#10 I Work At A Tech Company, This Is Our Christmas Tree

#11 ‘Green’ Christmas Tree From Recycled Plastic Drinking Bottles

#12 Our Slightly Different Christmas Tree…

#13 I Made A Bacterial Christmas Tree In The Lab

#14 Vegetable Tree

#15 Really Tall Christmas Tree In Our Neighborhood

#16 My Family Designed And Made A Gingerbread Christmas Tree. The Numbers Say “Christmas Tree” In Binary

#17 I Made An IT Christmas Tree Made Of Monitors

#18 Awesome Stranger Things Inspired Tree

#19 Festive Christmas Tree Out Of Sandbags

U.S. Marines in Afghanistan built this festive Christmas tree out of sandbags to get in the holiday spirit. Merry Christmas to all of our troops serving during this time

#20 When You Don’t Agree On How To Decorate A Tree

My wife and I don’t agree on how to decorate a tree. 4 years ago we started this as a joke and it is still going strong

#21 UFO Christmas Tree

#22 Who Needs A Traditional Tree When You Have A Ladder

#23 Instead Of A Christmas Tree, My Wife And I Do This To My Upright Bass

#24 My Christmas Tree

#25 No Tree, No Problem

#26 How To Have A Christmas Tree When You Have Cats

#27 The Shop Christmas Tree

#28 Christmas… San Diego Style

#29 Kirby Sucking Up Our Christmas Tree

#30 Christmas Tree Goals – Ballet Tree

#31 I So I Finally Buckled Down And Got A Christmas Tree This Year

#32 The Tree We Built

#33 I’m Spending Christmas In Iraq This Year, We Didn’t Have Much But I Still Think We Put Together One Hell Of A Tree

#34 Set Up A Cat-Proof Tree Tonight

#35 This Christmas Tree Is Made Out Of Old Woods And Logs And Guess What It Took Just 2 Days For The Person To Built It

#36 Some Lights And A Bit Of Decorations And You Have Yourself A Wonderful Tree

#37 Christmas Spirit In Our Lab

#38 Ugly Christmas Tree Turned Into Oscarmas (And Slimy)

While shopping for a tree this year, my husband and I spotted an ugly misfit – oval shaped, flat on the top with a huge gap in the middle. We were instantly inspired! Meet Oscarmas (and Slimy)

#39 The Boys And Gals From The Intensive Care Unit Have The Best Tree This Year

#40 This Prosthetic Tree

#41 Christmas Tree At A Local Electronics Store Is Lit

#42 My Wife’s Christmas Tree Alternative

#43 My Hospitals Pediatric Clinics Tree

#44 Our Office’s Christmas Tree

No one at work has taken responsibility for decorating the Christmas tree, for the last week it has been propped up in its box waiting. Today, I stepped up to the plate.

#45 Simple But Stylish Christmas Tree

#46 We Didn’t Have Room For A Christmas Tree So We Made A Silent Knight!

#47 I Turned My New 7′ Blue Christmas Tree Into Cookie Monster

#48 It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas In Texas

#49 My Father Spotted This Christmas Tree In Colmar

#50 My Roommate Likes Climbing – This Is His Christmas Tree This Year

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One day, this guy just kind of figured - “I spend most of my time on the internet anyway, why not turn it into a profession?” - and he did! Now he not only gets to browse the latest cat videos and fresh memes every day but also shares them with people all over the world, making sure they stay up to date with everything that’s trending on the web. Some things that always pique his interest are old technologies, literature and all sorts of odd vintage goodness. So if you find something that’s too bizarre not to share, make sure to hit him up!