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When Wearing Fur Was De Rigueur in London (1900 – 1950)

"Downy sins of streetlight fancies / Chase the costumes she shall wear / Ermine furs adorn the imperious / Severin, Severin awaits you there" - The Velvet Underground, Venus in Furs ...

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Paul Strand: Seeing The Blind (1915 – 1954)

Strand took many of his photographs using a decoy lens on his camera, duping the subject into thinking he was photographing something else. ...

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Listen To Nine-Year-Old Sly Stone Sing Gospel With His Family In 1952

On the day Sly Stone (born March 15, 1943) marks his birthday, we look ...

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Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

Don't fret. It took Jack Kerouac all of three weeks to write On the ...

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20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

Via William Bird's collection

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Meat Is Beautiful: Art Of The Butcher’s Shop Window 1924 – 1970

“Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we ...

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Ken Russell’s Brilliant Photos of Teddy Girls from 1955

In 1955 Ken Russell was commissioned to take photographs of working class girls in neo-edwardian clothing who called themselves Teddy Girls ...

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20 Mid-Century Christian Ventriloquism Albums

In the 1950s and 1960s Christian teachers turned to ventriloquism to teach kids about Jesus. They ...

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1950s Cookbooks: Recipes From A Decade Of Hope And Regret

So, I picked up a few midcentury cookbooks at an antiques store and thought ...

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The Story of British Coal In Photos: 1930-1950

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When China Wiped Out the Common Sparrow And Slit Its Own Throat (1958)

When China's Communist Party killed 30m people in a botched plan ...

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The Lesbian Gateways Club on the King’s Road and The Killing of Sister George

Between the 9th and 16th of June in 1968 The Gateways club became internationally famous when it appeared as a backdrop to many scenes filmed for The Killing Of Sister George, a movie starring Beryl Reid, Coral Browne and Susannah York. ...

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