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Life In Tallahassee, Florida in The 1950s – Black, White and Red All Over

Benjamin L. 'Red' Kerce's photographic record of a Florida city show us a city in turmoil ...

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Vintage Ventriloquists And Their Dummy Pals

vintage snapshots, publicity photos and actual ventriloquist dummies from the collection of Jim Linderman ...

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Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the ...

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Brilliant Reply To Nazis in 1930s Germany – ‘I Regret I Am No Gifted Jew’

In 1938 German publishers wanted to translate J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit into German. The author's reply is damning ...

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How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

The artists had apparently never seen elephants, but they featured prominently in bestiaries ...

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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...

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Sleeping With the Devil – Medieval Illuminations of Demonic Sex

A weird and wonderful collection of bedroom hijinks with creatures from Hell ...

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Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

At the very end of the 19th century the American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem. ...

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Hilma af Klint’s Cosmic Art Of The Invisible

“I had no idea what they were supposed to depict… I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.” ...

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Les Sataniques : The Satanic Ones by Félicien Rops (1882)

A Belgian artist's depictions of demonic order and sex shocked France ...

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Remember, Remember the 5th of November – Photos of Pain’s Fireworks Factory in 1928

History suggests that the barrels of gunpowder used in the infamous plot to blow up the Parliament of James I in 1605, were “manufactured by a gunpowder manufacturer within earshot of the Bells of Bow”. At that time the only such business was one John Pain, the founder of the modern day Pain's Fireworks company.... ...

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William Blake’s Illustrations For Dante’s Divine Comedy (1826)

Spellbinding drawings from William Blake's last work ...

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