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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...
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Photos From A Trip Around England in 1977

Photos From A Trip Around England in 1977

In October 1977, Mats Örn flew in to London from his native Sweden. He landed at Stanstead Airport to the east of the city in Essex, once a wartime airfield serving the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces but since converted into a commercial airport. ...
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The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

In March 1942 Beverley Bernstein, 16, was sent home for her Brooklyn NYC school for wearing trousers. A protest ensued... ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Views of Notre Dame and Paris – 1920

Views of Notre Dame and Paris – 1920

Photographs of Paris made circa 1920 by photographer by Pierre-Yves Petit, aka 'Yvon' ...
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The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

CW Cushman loved travelling and most years would take photographs of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the so-called Greatest Show on Earth. ...
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Strange Views of Switzerland and The Swiss

Strange Views of Switzerland and The Swiss

Didier Ruef's photographs show us a Switzerland away from clocks, skiiing lawyers and gnomes ...
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The ‘Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes’ – Photographs by Dafydd Jones

The ‘Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes’ – Photographs by Dafydd Jones

"It was Thatcher’s Britain, a period of celebration for those that had money," ...
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The Revised Boy Scout Manual : How to Fight A Revolution (1970)

The Revised Boy Scout Manual : How to Fight A Revolution (1970)

William S. Burroughs’ 1970 manifesto for overthrowing a corrupt government, aka The Revised Boy Scouts Manual ...
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How Vinyl Records And Music Tapes Are Made (1954)

How Vinyl Records And Music Tapes Are Made (1954)

This is how vinyl records was made in 1954 at the AMPEX factory in San Carlos, California ...
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40 Great Portraits of Wales and The Welsh 1865-1885

40 Great Portraits of Wales and The Welsh 1865-1885

John Thomas toured Wales taking photographs of the country and its people ...
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Lush Color Autochromes of Petra 1907 – 1940

Lush Color Autochromes of Petra 1907 – 1940

"The Nabataeans had what you might call an instinct for cultural ecology; they worked with ...
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