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Remarkable Photos of Manhattan by Berenice Abbott from 1935

Remarkable Photos of Manhattan by Berenice Abbott from 1935

Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio and raised by her divorced mother. She went to ...
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Japan’s Mermaid Pearl Divers In Photos – 1950s

Japan’s Mermaid Pearl Divers In Photos – 1950s

  Diving for pearls in Japan is a job for women. In these photos from ...
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Chorus Line Dancers and Can-Can Girls from the 1920s-1960s

Chorus Line Dancers and Can-Can Girls from the 1920s-1960s

In the mid-1800s, the music halls of Paris suddenly were presented with high-kicking, cartwheeling ladies ...
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Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

"My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going" — Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
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A Night At The Garden: Incredible Footage Of The American Nazi Rally In New York – February 20 1939

A Night At The Garden: Incredible Footage Of The American Nazi Rally In New York – February 20 1939

“The first thing that struck me was that an event like this could happen in the heart of New York City" - Marshall Curry, director of A Night At The Garden ...
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Gender Swapping in Early Souvenir Arcade Photos

Gender Swapping in Early Souvenir Arcade Photos

  Gender swapping was a theme in photo arcade photos. "You could go into a ...
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Albert Einstein’s Letter to Gandhi: The Eternal Law of Love

Albert Einstein’s Letter to Gandhi: The Eternal Law of Love

“Professor Einstein is not a mere mathematical mind. He is a living being, sympathetic with all human advance… and he hates race prejudice because as a Jew he knows what it is.” - W.E.B. Du Bois ...
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Dear Wilhelm and Family! A German Writes In Praise Of Hitler And Anti-Semitism (1936)

Dear Wilhelm and Family! A German Writes In Praise Of Hitler And Anti-Semitism (1936)

  On January 6, 1936, Ernst Ries from Cologne, Germany, wrote to his cousin Wilhelm in ...
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Forbidden Furs: Mid-Century Snapshots Of Women And Men Wearing Mink

Forbidden Furs: Mid-Century Snapshots Of Women And Men Wearing Mink

In the mid-20th Century, the mink coat was the apogee of elegance ...
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The Ever-Present “Lady in Red” in Vintage Pulp Fiction

The Ever-Present “Lady in Red” in Vintage Pulp Fiction

What was it that made pulp producers habitually put a girl in a red dress ...
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Splendid 20th Century Pictures of British Woolworths

Splendid 20th Century Pictures of British Woolworths

The British version of F.W. Woolworth Company was founded by Frank Woolworth in Liverpool in ...
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Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

  Author Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) and Gertrude Stein (February 3, ...
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