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When Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life With Kindness And Art (1962)

When Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life With Kindness And Art (1962)

  In March of 1962, Alfred Hitchcock was filming The Birds in Bodega Bay. He took a ...
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Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: Issachar Ber Ryback’s Avant-Garde Art of Remembrance (1922)

Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: Issachar Ber Ryback’s Avant-Garde Art of Remembrance (1922)

Russian artist Issachar Ber Ryback was a leading light for the Yiddish avant-garde movement. These lithographs ...
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12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

These maps offer perspectives on Europe at the onset of World War One in 1914. They are all ...
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The Relaxed Wife: Weird Adverts For Atarax Anti-Depressants (1957-1970)

The Relaxed Wife: Weird Adverts For Atarax Anti-Depressants (1957-1970)

  In 1957, the stressed could learn to relax by watching this video presentation by J.B. ...
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20th Century Visions of Future Sex

20th Century Visions of Future Sex

The saying goes that every generation likes to think it invented sex. In the 20th Century, ...
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18 Wonderful Visions of France In 2000 By Artists In 1900

18 Wonderful Visions of France In 2000 By Artists In 1900

En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000) is a series of visionary cigarette cards and postcards by Jean-Marc ...
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VD Is For Everyone: An Hilarious 1969 Promise From The American Social Health Association

VD Is For Everyone: An Hilarious 1969 Promise From The American Social Health Association

  In 1969, The American Social Health Association produced this video about venereal disease. Ostensibly a ...
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1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

In the 1970s space was the mission and the message. One thing occupied minds at NASA: ...
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Adam Purple’s Eden: New York’s Urban Gardener Built Beauty From Rubble 1975-1986

Adam Purple’s Eden: New York’s Urban Gardener Built Beauty From Rubble 1975-1986

  In 1975 Adam Purple was inspired. Squatting in an apartment at 184 Forsyth Street on New York ...
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Stop Driving Us Crazy! (1959): A Methodist Moralising Martian Motor Movie

Stop Driving Us Crazy! (1959): A Methodist Moralising Martian Motor Movie

  In 1959, Dr. Caradine R. Hooton, General Secretary, of the Board Of Temperance of ...
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The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)

The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)

In the 1850s U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry landed his ships in Japan and set about ending ...
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Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light therapy was popular in Europe from the turn of the century until the late 1930s. The ...
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