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The Glory of Seedy Soho

The Glory of Seedy Soho

Photos from an exhibition celebrating London's most vibrant square mile ...
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Illustrations From Bijutsu Sekai (1893–1896)

Illustrations From Bijutsu Sekai (1893–1896)

Watanabe Seitei's gorgeous illustrations from a 19th Century Japanese book ...
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Incredible Illustrations for Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland by Salvador Dalí

Incredible Illustrations for Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland by Salvador Dalí

A work of art incorporating rebelliousness, revolution, paradox; distortions of space and time, logic, size, and proportion; disbelief in conventional reality; assimilation of dreams, wordplay, and the ineffable nature of childhood. ...
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A Visual Tour of Brassaï’s Paris – 1930s

A Visual Tour of Brassaï’s Paris – 1930s

“I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my ...
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‘Pinocchio-in-The-Uterus’ or ‘A walking Sperm Bank’: What Fellini Thought About ‘Casanova’

‘Pinocchio-in-The-Uterus’ or ‘A walking Sperm Bank’: What Fellini Thought About ‘Casanova’

For years Federico Fellini promised to make a film about Casanova. It was what his producers wanted. They knew it would be a box-office smash. But Fellini had no intention of making such a film as he loathed Casanova. ...
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Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Players (Boston ca. 1890)

Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Players (Boston ca. 1890)

G.E. Gray's terrific studio portraits of baseball stars taken at his Boston studio ...
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Buy Prints Illustrations From The Classic Poems of Childhood (1904)

Illustrations From The Classic Poems of Childhood (1904)

Brilliant paintings from a book of sentimental Victorian poems about candy, love and a poisonous peach that kills two children ...
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Portraits of Captured Native Americans After The Modoc War

Portraits of Captured Native Americans After The Modoc War

These people were captured by the US Army after The Modoc War ended in 1873. ...
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Remember, Remember the 5th of November – Photos of Pain’s Fireworks Factory in 1928

Remember, Remember the 5th of November – Photos of Pain’s Fireworks Factory in 1928

History suggests that the barrels of gunpowder used in the infamous plot to blow up the Parliament of James I in 1605, were “manufactured by a gunpowder manufacturer within earshot of the Bells of Bow”. At that time the only such business was one John Pain, the founder of the modern day Pain's Fireworks company.... ...
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The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

'As air escaped from the [spacecraft’s air lock], the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster’s claw'. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began to worry... ...
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A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke

A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke

John Burke was a writer, a very prolific writer, who wrote about 150 novels, most of which were movie or television tie-in books. ...
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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

"I've always felt that photographs for me were primarily for reproduction and for mass distribution. A photograph is something for lots and lots of people to see." ...
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