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Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

The Communists liked concrete. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, they shaped concrete into huge monuments ...
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The Rockford Files: You Can Download Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine Messages For Your Mobile Here

The Rockford Files: You Can Download Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine Messages For Your Mobile Here

  The Rockford Files (1974-1980) always began the same way: the phone is ringing; an answering machine ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

21 Unusual And Creepy Mid-Century Postcards Of People Looking At Things

What do you want to see at a tourist destination? Postcards of people looking at ...
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Pleasure Boating Advert-orama: Dorsett Marine And Raymond Loewy’s Mid-Century American Dream

Pleasure Boating Advert-orama: Dorsett Marine And Raymond Loewy’s Mid-Century American Dream

  These fabulous illustrations are from the Dorsett Marine catalog 1963-64. The pictures appear to be from some ...
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Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

What you are about to see are not film sets Stanley Kubrick thought too isolated ...
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22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

  In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet Union mills made sure the media was the message. ...
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Étienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye

Étienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye

  French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey's photo gun (1882) enhanced his reputation in chronophotography, in which several sequential frames of ...
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Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

“[Photographers are] the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with ...
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John Steinbeck: A 1958 Letter To His Son On Falling in Love

John Steinbeck: A 1958 Letter To His Son On Falling in Love

  John Steinbeck was a Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. In addition to his great work ...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Decoding The Mark Of Cain 1960-1989

Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Decoding The Mark Of Cain 1960-1989

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, Arkady Bronnikov, a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR ...
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Watch A Bleak Film Of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945

Watch A Bleak Film Of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945

    Walt Disney taught us to love the atom and its wondrous power to ...
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38 Photos That Prove Victorian Women Never Cut Their Hair

38 Photos That Prove Victorian Women Never Cut Their Hair

Women in the Victorian era competed to see who has the strongest next muscles. To prove ...
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