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A Gauntlet of Terrors: An Undercover Reporter Shames America Over Its Treatment Of Immigrants (1921)

A Gauntlet of Terrors: An Undercover Reporter Shames America Over Its Treatment Of Immigrants (1921)

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus ...
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100 Years of Amazing Piccadilly Circus Photos

100 Years of Amazing Piccadilly Circus Photos

Piccadilly Circus is one of the world's most famous road junctions and known for it's ...
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Cal Schenkel And The Fathers of Invention: The Genesis of Frank Zappa’s Album Covers

Cal Schenkel And The Fathers of Invention: The Genesis of Frank Zappa’s Album Covers

Can you inherit artistic ability? Cal Schenkel, arguably best known for creating album covers for the mercurial Frank ...
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Twenty-Five Lady Chatterley’s Lover Covers

Twenty-Five Lady Chatterley’s Lover Covers

Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP. ...
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Joyce Dennys And Edmund Knox’s Winter Alphabet (1926)

Joyce Dennys And Edmund Knox’s Winter Alphabet (1926)

In 1926, painter Joyce Dennys (1893–1991) and writer Edmund George Valpy Knox, aka Evoe (1870 – ...
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Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Paul Klee (1879-1940), aka 'Buddha of the Bauhaus', made eight glove puppets for his son Felix’s ninth ...
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American Royalty: Mid-Century Movie Stars in Crowns and Tiaras

American Royalty: Mid-Century Movie Stars in Crowns and Tiaras

  "Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me" ...
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P.T.O.: Found Photos That Say So Much On The Back

P.T.O.: Found Photos That Say So Much On The Back

P.T.O. these found photos to read the message on the back.   Via ObscuraLA
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The Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

The Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

Do you knit? Maria Popova has a word to the wise, noting that “the flower doesn’t go ...
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Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary

Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary

  Thrown into solitude... [the prisoner] reflects. Placed alone, in view of his crime, he ...
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Audrey, Celia, and Olive’s Joyous Days At The Beach (1927-1928)

Audrey, Celia, and Olive’s Joyous Days At The Beach (1927-1928)

"Several years ago, I obtained a photographic album with pictures of an British family dating ...
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The Great Break: The Russian Peasant Becomes The Collective Farmer (1920-1931)

The Great Break: The Russian Peasant Becomes The Collective Farmer (1920-1931)

The Great Break. From the surplus to total collectivization - these photos record the transformation ...
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