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How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

'The manipulators of patriotic opinion made use of the mental clichés and the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities, the terror and the tyranny of the enemy' - Edward Bernays ...
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17 New Albums Arriving in Record Stores in the Year 1980

17 New Albums Arriving in Record Stores in the Year 1980

What a year 1980 was for pop ...
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When Tommy Roberts, Johnny Halliday and Sylvia Vartan Brought Hippy Chic To Paris (1967)

When Tommy Roberts, Johnny Halliday and Sylvia Vartan Brought Hippy Chic To Paris (1967)

"By 1967 Haight Ashbury hippie culture had taken off in London. At Kleptomania – my boutique around the corner from Carnaby Street at 10 Kingly Street – it was embraced with gusto" - Tommy Roberts ...
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The Atlantic Wall: The Architecture of Death in Photos

The Atlantic Wall: The Architecture of Death in Photos

"The war will be won or lost on the beaches. We'll have only one chance to stop the enemy and that's while he's in the water ... struggling to get ashore ... everything we have must be on the coast ... the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive... for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day" - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, German Army ...
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World War 1 In Color: Canada’s War

World War 1 In Color: Canada’s War

Coloring the old brings the past to life ...
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“Stuff the Jubilee” – The Gordon Highlanders on Patrol in Belfast in 1977/78

“Stuff the Jubilee” – The Gordon Highlanders on Patrol in Belfast in 1977/78

At the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee the Gordon Highlanders were based at Palace Barracks, Holywood near Belfast. ...
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Danny Lyon: New Mexico and Mexico Road Trip – 1970s

Danny Lyon: New Mexico and Mexico Road Trip – 1970s

'To be in some river bottom somewhere, or in a desert, or in mountains, or in some hut in Mexico... and rest and be kind, and do nothing else...' - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums ...
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Backstage With Divine in The Neon Woman – New York 1978

Backstage With Divine in The Neon Woman – New York 1978

'The scene is backstage at a tacky strip joint, the Neon Woman, herself, where the characters are undressing for work...' ...
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Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

"I felt that the time of ‘change’ had come, and I needed to go and shoot” - Igor Mukhin ...
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30 Photos Of New York City In 1978

30 Photos Of New York City In 1978

Manel Armengol was in New York in 1978. His photos transport us back in time to a city in decay ...
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On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze

On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze

Let's take a look at some rooms as well as poster advertising from the 1970s and relive those days when kids were defined by what was tacked to their walls... ...
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26 Abandoned Discos

26 Abandoned Discos

“Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't” ― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green ...
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