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The Glorious WW2 Posters of Patrick Cokayne Keely

Mostly self-taught, Nottingham born Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely designed posters for London Transport, the Southern ...

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20th Century Snapshots of People Eating, Drinking And Smoking

These snapshots, assembled by OscuraLA, show capture people (and we're including one cooking dog ...

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Asylum: Inside The Ruins Of America’s Vast Mental Hospitals

Christopher Payne takes us back to when mental illness was even less understood than it ...

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Caviar Fishing On The Caspian Sea (1949)

In 1949 Russian cinematographer and photographer Vladislav Mikosha (1909-2004) spent a day with fishermen looking ...

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The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

Werner Heisenberg and his team were tasked with building a nuclear weapon for Nazi Germany. In ...

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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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Life Aboard The Alden Fishing Boat Out of Gloucester, Massachusetts (June 1943)

In June 1943 Antonio Milietello, the owner and oldest fisherman aboard the fishing vessel Alden, working ...

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Peter Sellers Covers The Beatles And The Bard In 6 Accents (With Apologies To Laurence Olivier, The Irish And Shakespeare)

Peter Sellers, the comic actor who gave flesh and 'berms' to Inspector Clouseau in the ...

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Vintage Photos Of Creepy Clowns

Enthralled by John Foster's curious feet, we look to his vintage snapshots of creepy clowns - ...

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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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Lady Day And Mister: Billy Holiday’s Canine Partners In Crime

Jazz singer Eleanora Fagan, aka Billie Holiday and Lady Day, (April 7, 1915–July 17, 1959) ...

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Accidental Mysteries And Curious Feet: A Collection of Found Photos

When John Foster, of St. Louis, Missouri, sees a Found Photo (aka vernacular photograph) he wonders about ...

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