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Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Hoffa, the granite-faced Midwestern trucking union president with a flexible relationship to ethics might have seemed like an unlikely famous figure just a few years ago. Now, it’s easy to imagine his broad, bulldog mug and combative style, dodging and weaving in congressional hearings in 2019 to cover for his connections. ...
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The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

Found photos of an American town's 1950s get together ...
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Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools

Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools

In 1936 eleven WPA swimming pools opened in the city, giving New Yorkers sweet relief from the heat. The pools were feats of engineering for the time, plus each was architecturally distinct. ...
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Jeff Devine’s Photographs of Oahu’s North Shore in the 1970s

Jeff Devine’s Photographs of Oahu’s North Shore in the 1970s

Devine’s photos of Oahu in the 70s evoke gnarly dynamism and eerie calm by turns. ...
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Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Catching up with the orphans whose plight horrified the world ...
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I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

In 1948 former Wizard of Oz Munchkin Parnell St. Aubin set up a bar with his new wife Mary Ellen Burbach, the former midget Mae West ...
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When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes

When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes

There was a time when doctors actively promoted cigarettes—or at least appeared to—in dozens of ads with supposedly authoritative testimonials from physicians. ...
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You Better Watch Out! Vintage Scary Santa Snapshots

You Better Watch Out! Vintage Scary Santa Snapshots

  "I'm sorry you saw me, Timmy," says Santa to the boy watching him place ...
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Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974

Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974

Many of the photographs, including those of Lyon’s, are the only distinct visual record of the time and place. ...
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Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Walking up “the Lane”, as we called it, was a stroll through the English class system even then as one progressed towards Holland Park. Notting Hill didn’t become gentrified – it always was. What happened was that North Kensington became Notting Hill. ...
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A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

Photographs of miners going to work and at the coal face ...
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Photographs of Stoke Newington During the ‘Winter of Discontent’ by Alan Denney

Photographs of Stoke Newington During the ‘Winter of Discontent’ by Alan Denney

It was the coldest winter for sixteen years and will always be remembered as ‘the winter of discontent’ - from the famous first line from Shakespeare’s Richard III. ...
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