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The 100-Year-Old Found Photos Brought To Life With An iPhone

The 100-Year-Old Found Photos Brought To Life With An iPhone

"I realised I was looking at pictures than no-one has looked at for probably over 100 years" - Greg Pack ...
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Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Less than a month before the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, a smaller, secret detonation took place in the New Mexico desert, 230 miles south of Los Alamos in a valley called the Jornada del Muerto (“Journey of the Dead Man”). ...
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A Glorious Collections of Photos So Bad They’re Good

A Glorious Collections of Photos So Bad They’re Good

Fingers over lenses, severed limbs, missing heads, misfires, bad crops, oddly lit, badly composed, inadvertent close-ups and all photographs so bad they end up brilliant. ...
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Revealing Snapshots of Bristol 1974-1984

Revealing Snapshots of Bristol 1974-1984

The post-war rebuilding of Bristol city centre was characterised by 1960s and 1970s skyscrapers, mid-century modern architecture and road 'improvements'. Much of which changed the city more than the efforts of the Luftwaffe. ...
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The Singularly Mediocre Fashions of Grandma’s 1970s Workbasket Magazine

The Singularly Mediocre Fashions of Grandma’s 1970s Workbasket Magazine

I saw them sitting on a flea-market shelf - about fifty issues of a magazine called Workbasket.  Each contained a few full-color pages of the featured “fashions” for do-it-yourself needlecraft. ...
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Jim Henson’s Sadistic And Hilarious Adverts For Wilkins Coffee (1957-1961)

Jim Henson’s Sadistic And Hilarious Adverts For Wilkins Coffee (1957-1961)

These coffee commercials featured Wilkins, a violent, happy and sadistic habitual coffee drinker, with more than a passing resemblance to even-tempered Kermit, who mocks, kills and maims a coffee doubter, the prototype Cookie Monster-Beaker hybrid named Wontkins. ...
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10 Terrible Songs About Food (1960s-1970s)

10 Terrible Songs About Food (1960s-1970s)

There were a lot of great songs about food released in the 1960s and 1970s ...
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Pictures of Birmingham Gigs in the Early 1980s

Pictures of Birmingham Gigs in the Early 1980s

I started at Birmingham University and quickly began taking concert photgraphs for the university newspaper Redbrick as a way to get free tickets. ...
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Erotic Film Posters from the 60s Celebrate the End of Hollywood Hays Code Censorship

Erotic Film Posters from the 60s Celebrate the End of Hollywood Hays Code Censorship

Fast forward to the early 1960s and the Hays Code, while still technically extant until 1965, had been weakened to the point of unenforceability. ...
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David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." ...
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Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Often seen handling weaponry, wooden objects and sticks or gazing into the distance, the male models are often in pairs... ...
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A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

The post-war test pilot in the 1950s had an incredibly high death rate.  Literally a quarter of them died.  Wolfe’s novel describes the grisly details of life as a test pilot, where it seemed there was a funeral to attend every week. ...
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