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Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

In 1949, Dayalets created mascots to promote vitamins made by Abbott Laboratories, of Chicago, Illinois. ...
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Found By The Trash: A Box of Extraterrestrial Drawings And Notes

Found By The Trash: A Box of Extraterrestrial Drawings And Notes

  When he found a locked wooden box "smelling of basements and dampness" by the trash, Reddit ...
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A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

Ted Polhemus shares his personal photo archive. His life begins in the bosom of the ...
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The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

April 1941, and the Greyhound bus terminal at Washington DC is bustling. The waiting room ...
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Roman Totenberg And What The Holocaust Teaches Us About Giving ‘Freedom For The Thought We Hate’

Roman Totenberg And What The Holocaust Teaches Us About Giving ‘Freedom For The Thought We Hate’

Before the remarkable story of Roman Totenberg and his family's escape from the Nazis, a ...
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Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

  Between 1937 and 1942, Farm Security Administration photographers Edwin Rosskam and John Collier recorded ...
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Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

  “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” ― Stephen King, Bag of ...
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New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

In 1934, the New York Police Department finally let women officers carry guns. The first female ...
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Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Fu Bingchang (1895-1965) was a diplomat and Nationalist politician, as well as an accomplished portrait and ...
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Hit! The Service Man’s Gazette (June 1944)

Hit! The Service Man’s Gazette (June 1944)

June 1944 was the month of D-Day, where 160,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel to ...
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Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Montreal, Canada, 1949. Le Devoir publishes a series of articles decrying lax policing and the spread ...
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The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

"I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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