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The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Ponting, who died in 1935, is best known for photographing Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole in 1911/12 ...

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Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

It's a student party in Wolseley Street in Belfast - what would be called the ...

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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was ...

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Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Nearly everything about the Los Angeles appealed to him—the endless sprawl, the two-story apartment houses with outdoor stairways, the hot rods, the jazz clubs, the billboards, the sunrises and sunsets, the boulevards that led to the ocean. ...

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Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

When Spangles were introduced to the British public in 1950 sweets and sugar were ...

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The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

"This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up..." ...

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Austin Osman Spare: ‘A Book of Satyrs’ 1906

An artist, writer, and musician--he played clarinet in a jazz band. Spare was also an occultist and a magician and has been described by writer Alan Moore as “possibly the greatest English magician of the twentieth century.” ...

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When the Alarm Clock Was a Person: The “Knocker-Uppers” of Industrial-Era Britain

Rural laborers, used to keeping time with the seasons, relocated to manufacturing towns and cities at significant rates. They not only had to adjust to dangerous, fast-paced industrial work, but to new schedules... ...

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“Scotland for the Holidays” – Gorgeous Railway Brochures and Posters From the 1930s

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) were the two largest of the “Big Four” railway companies by the Railways Act of 1921. In fact the LMS was the world’s largest transport organisation and the United Kingdom’s second largest employer, after the Post Office. ...

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Snapshots of Staff at a London Westminster Bank c.1960

One day, around 1960, someone took some quick snapshots of colleagues working at a National Westminster Bank in the City of London probably near Tower Hill. Unfortunately that's all we know. ...

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Ghosts in the Machine: The beauty of decayed daguerreotypes

The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process invented by French theatre-designer Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839. ...

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Stars of Late 20th Century Fashion by Harry Benson

"A good photograph can never happen again,’ says Benson. ‘To me, that’s what photography is – a glimpse, and gone forever" - Harry Benson ...

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Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

At the very end of the 19th century the American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem. ...

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