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Wild-Wacky-Cool: Vintage Snapshots of Men’s Hair Through the Ages

A gallery of men's hair styles and misdemeanours from Robert E. Jackson's amazing photograph collection ...

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A War Hero’s Avant-Garde Mannequins from 1920s Paris

Noted for her work in World War 2, Therese Bonney also worked in Paris as a mannequin photographer ...

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Arnold Genthe’s Cats : Women Posing With ‘Buzzer’ From A Century Ago

It is told that at the age of four, when I was taken by the nurse to look at my newly arrived brother Hugo, I seriously remarked, ‘I’d like a little kitten better. ...

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Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Donald Baxter MacMillan's fabulous photos of the Artic Sun ...

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The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

In 1923, Dorothy Margaret Macleay, 14, and her younger sister Gertrude Maxine, 12, began producing a monthly newspaper. They called it the Rocking P Gazette, after the family's Rocking P ranch ...

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The Look of the Bauhaus Book: How the Radical Weimar Design School Sold its New Program for the Arts

In order to make the sustained case for the “new system,” Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy began a book series in 1923 when the school acquired its own publishing house. ...

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Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

In the early 20th Century, French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) took pictures of his ...

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Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. ...

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Photos of the Rough and Tumble Tour de France Throughout the Years

The first tours were more like what is now called adventure or endurance racing than the smooth, calculated road races we're used to seeing on TV ...

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From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

Becoming the first person from a marginalized group to integrate an industry is not so much an honor as an endurance test. Anna May Wong, the first Asian-American Hollywood film star, learned this lesson in the 1920s and 30s ...

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Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things

In the years between the wars, the pent-up demand for pleasure and creativity exploded. This was the Jazz Age, the age of Weimar cabaret culture, the Lost Generation in Paris, and of London’s Bright Young Things ...

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Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century

Prostitutes, killers, cocaine finds and 'the most evil woman in Sydney' ...

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