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Making Globes In 1955

Making Globes In 1955

British Pathé has published its vast collection of 85,000 historical films dating from 1896 to 1976 ...
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The Pain Of Child Labor: Amputees And Injuries From When Life Was Cheap (1908 – 1924)

The Pain Of Child Labor: Amputees And Injuries From When Life Was Cheap (1908 – 1924)

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) ...
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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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Workers On The Roof Of Chattanooga’s First Department Store (1898)

Workers On The Roof Of Chattanooga’s First Department Store (1898)

Charles Gustavus Walline (1873 - 1943), a worker at Chattanooga, Tennessee, department store D.B. Lovemans ...
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Chester A. Gardner Photographs Lillian Atop New York’s Met Life Building On May 25 1936

Chester A. Gardner Photographs Lillian Atop New York’s Met Life Building On May 25 1936

Chester A. Gardner lived in New Jersey and worked for the Ordinary Maturities Section of ...
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I Live In A Ghost Town: Photographer Creates A City Without People

I Live In A Ghost Town: Photographer Creates A City Without People

  After ten years as a musician and singer the writer and photographer Thibaut Derien ...
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Barney Bubbles’ Letterheads for Riviera Global Record Productions

Barney Bubbles’ Letterheads for Riviera Global Record Productions

  This company letterhead was designed by the late graphics master Barney Bubbles for music ...
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What Really Happened At The Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory In 1976

What Really Happened At The Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory In 1976

On the corner of two tight residential streets, next to Dollis Hill underground station, stands ...
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An Afternoon At The Engineer’s Arms Pub, Leiston, Suffolk (1966)

An Afternoon At The Engineer’s Arms Pub, Leiston, Suffolk (1966)

Sydney C. Stollery, licensee of the Engineer's Arms public house, Leiston, Suffolk, opened his doors ...
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Studio Prints: At A Printmaker’s Workshop In Kentish Town (1970)

Studio Prints: At A Printmaker’s Workshop In Kentish Town (1970)

The 1970 BBC documentary At A Printmaker’s Workshop focuses on Dorothea Wight’s fabled Studio Prints ...
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Caviar Fishing On The Caspian Sea (1949)

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 Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

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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