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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...
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Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)

Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)

Inside was a list of nine “guidelines” that might allow you to get out of the city alive, and with your personal property intact. ...
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Photographs of The Lower East Side During the 1970s

Photographs of The Lower East Side During the 1970s

New York City in the 1970s was tough but if you took the trouble to look for them, signs of joy were everywhere ...
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When Joe Strummer Ran The Paris Marathon After 10 Pints Of Beer

When Joe Strummer Ran The Paris Marathon After 10 Pints Of Beer

"I didn’t fuckin’ train. Not once. Just turned up and did it" - Joe Stummer ...
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Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Pictures taken on a walk up Charing Cross Road from Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus ...
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Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)

Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)

“I work in the belief – or dare – that I can continue to reinvent myself and remain a perennial beginner" - Rose Finn-Kelcey ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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Duelling With Wax Bullets in New York (1909)

Duelling With Wax Bullets in New York (1909)

In 1909 wax bullets were used in duals at the New York Athletic Club and Carnegie Hall ...
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Looking For Orson Welles’ Noses

Looking For Orson Welles’ Noses

“When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends” – Orson Welles ...
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, Missouri (1968)

Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, Missouri (1968)

"Entering Wonderland, the visitor encounters a confusion of sounds – juke boxes, shots from the rifle range, bells ringing on myriad machines. The whole atmosphere is one of carnival" ...
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25 Wild & Wonderful Disco Records from Around the World

25 Wild & Wonderful Disco Records from Around the World

Disco always had a tendency toward the audacious and get "crazier than a fish with tits" ...
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Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho

Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho

Where Noel Coward bought smart socks and Gertrude Lawrence smart stockings at bargain prices in their early days... ...
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