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Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

William McCalla, a botanist and teacher, made over 1,000 hand-coloured lantern slides of Albertan flowers ...
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41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

There are more than 4,000 runic inscriptions in Sweden, dated from the 3d century up to modern time. ...
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‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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Morton Bartlett’s Family of Homemade Children (1926-1963)

Morton Bartlett’s Family of Homemade Children (1926-1963)

'Painted plaster skin turns supple and dewy through his watchful viewfinder' ...
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“I’ve Gotta Horse” – the Life of the Glorious Prince Monolulu

“I’ve Gotta Horse” – the Life of the Glorious Prince Monolulu

Monolulu usually wore an ostentatious head-dress of ostrich feathers, a multi-coloured cloak and a huge scarf wrapped around his waist. Of course anybody who was considered remotely amusing in those days had to have a catch-phrase and Monolulu’s, heard by everyone at Petticoat Lane and race-courses around the country, was: “I Gotta Horse, I Gotta Horse’. ...
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Be My Valentine: Vintage Snapshots Of Love On The Cards

Be My Valentine: Vintage Snapshots Of Love On The Cards

‘Really the post is about the heart motif in photos as much as it is about Valentine’s Day,’ writes Robert E. Jackson. The message on these pictures says “I love you”. That’s what hearts mean, don’t they. They say ‘my heart is yours’, and because we feel with our hearts, giving them to another is profound and true. Receiving a heart motif must be good news for any one of us. But you never know. Giving your heart is a gamble. ...
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Buy Prints Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things;  Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things; Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

"A gentle, quiet, easy-going man with velvet eyes and enormous charm, Curtis Moffat was the most Europeanised of Americans. He seemed to be only 'at home' in the quietness of his book-filled rooms. But appearances are deceptive; in fact he was the centre of enormous creative activity. " Cecil Beaton ...
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The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds of German citizens and then categorised them by social type and occupation. ...
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When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

William Joyce, the man with the infamous nickname ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, had a catchphrase as famous as any comedian’s, and had a facial disfigurement in the form of a terrible scar that marked him as a ‘treacherous villain’ as if the words themselves were tattooed across his forehead. ...
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London Waterloo Station in Pictures

London Waterloo Station in Pictures

We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it. - Three Men in a Boat' ...
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Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers—the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people. She was of the animal race that owes nothing to intellectualism. She incarnated herself. She flattered a French patriotism that was not shameful. It is normal now that she should crumble, like the other caryatids of that great and marvellous epoch that was ours. ...
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Freckles Removal Between the Wars

Freckles Removal Between the Wars

"Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt" - Dorothy Parker (The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker) ...
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