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Hans Poelzig’s Sinister Neo-Gothic Expressionism – 1908-1935

Hans Poelzig’s Sinister Neo-Gothic Expressionism – 1908-1935

Hans Poelzig (30 April 1869 – 14 June 1936) was a German architect, painter, teacher ...
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Interesting Questions to the Reference Section of the New York Public Library – 1944 to 1979

Interesting Questions to the Reference Section of the New York Public Library – 1944 to 1979

Before the internet people of New York asked their librarian about ducks, divorce, orgies, worm cheese and, well, just ab out anything ...
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Photographs of Jean-Charles Deburau as Pierrot in 1855 by  Nadar

Photographs of Jean-Charles Deburau as Pierrot in 1855 by Nadar

This series of photos of Charles as Pierrot was taken by Félix Nadar in 1855 ...
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Beat Artist Harry Smith’s Collection of Paper Planes Found In New York City, 1961-1983

Beat Artist Harry Smith’s Collection of Paper Planes Found In New York City, 1961-1983

When Harry Smith saw a paper plane on the street he had to have it - he collected hunderds ...
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Play Along With Harvey Kurtzman and Terry Gilliam’s Book of Fun and Games – 1965

Play Along With Harvey Kurtzman and Terry Gilliam’s Book of Fun and Games – 1965

Puzzles, mazes, games, and optical illusions compiled by Mad Magazine’s Harvey Kurtzman and Monty's Python's Terry Gilliam ...
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An Actor Hams It Up For Fun Portraits in 1872

An Actor Hams It Up For Fun Portraits in 1872

In 1872 pantomime actor Fawdon Vokes posed for a fabulous series of portraits ...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Dreams Of Early 20th Century France

Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Dreams Of Early 20th Century France

Between 1907 and 1914, art collector Antonin Personnaz took lush autochrome pictures of France's Oise Valley ...
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The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

I love dispatch I strike at once The wit, the wise, the fool, the dunce; ...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Camping – 1920

Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Camping – 1920

Hemingway's guide to knowing black flies and mosquitoes, and recipes for a successful camping trip ...
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The First Photos of Chernobyl After The Nuclear Disaster – April 26 1986

The First Photos of Chernobyl After The Nuclear Disaster – April 26 1986

In 1986 Igor Kostin flew over the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant taking photographs ...
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Steampunk Illustrations from Albert Robida’s Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique (The Electric Life), 1893

Steampunk Illustrations from Albert Robida’s Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique (The Electric Life), 1893

The ultimate steampunk holy grail: ‘Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique’, the science fiction book written and illustrated by French author Albert Robida ...
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Masks, Refugees and Vagabond: Kati Horna’s Revealingly Surreal Photographs

Masks, Refugees and Vagabond: Kati Horna’s Revealingly Surreal Photographs

Kati Horna's photographs approach us truth through surrealism, shadows and masks ...
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