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Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

The Communists liked concrete. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, they shaped concrete into huge monuments ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

21 Unusual And Creepy Mid-Century Postcards Of People Looking At Things

What do you want to see at a tourist destination? Postcards of people looking at ...
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‘Giraffe Neck’ Padaung Women Tour London And New York Circuses: 1900-1957

‘Giraffe Neck’ Padaung Women Tour London And New York Circuses: 1900-1957

  The Padaung, a group native to Burma and Thailand, focus on their necks, covered ...
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22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

  In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet Union mills made sure the media was the message. ...
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Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

“[Photographers are] the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with ...
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15 Beautiful French Art-Deco Travel Posters by Roger Broders

15 Beautiful French Art-Deco Travel Posters by Roger Broders

Roger Broders was born in Paris in 1883. A brilliant illustrator he is best known ...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Decoding The Mark Of Cain 1960-1989

Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Decoding The Mark Of Cain 1960-1989

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, Arkady Bronnikov, a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR ...
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Shooting From The Hip: 20 Stunning Photos Of Pennsylvania Grit In The 1970s

Shooting From The Hip: 20 Stunning Photos Of Pennsylvania Grit In The 1970s

  Mark Cohen's photographs of people in his native Wilkes-Barre and other working-class Pennsylvania locations were taken ...
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Walt Whitman Leading Light Of America’s First Gay Bar: The New York Bohemians Who Made Good At Pfaff’s

Walt Whitman Leading Light Of America’s First Gay Bar: The New York Bohemians Who Made Good At Pfaff’s

  Pfaff’s was America’s first gay bar. Located at 647 Broadway, patrons of the vaulted underground cellar ...
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Greeting From Mid-Century America: 34 Sensational Postcards Of The Ordinary And Weird

Greeting From Mid-Century America: 34 Sensational Postcards Of The Ordinary And Weird

“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored” Postcards from mid-Century USA. Wish you were ...
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Calvert And Kinneir’s Road Signs And Design Classics

Calvert And Kinneir’s Road Signs And Design Classics

"I now regret that I didn’t put a corner of a spade on the ‘men at work’ sign, it would have stopped all the jokes about a man struggling to put up an umbrella!" ...
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The Spectacular Televised Death Of Franz Reichelt: The Eiffel Tower Base Jumper (1912)

The Spectacular Televised Death Of Franz Reichelt: The Eiffel Tower Base Jumper (1912)

  Only a person seeking death would jump from the Eiffel Tower. To jump was ...
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