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Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

In his forties, Peter Cushing had his first major success starring as Winston Smith in Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. Its huge success led to Cushing be cast as the Baron in Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein--it was the first of five occasions he would play the Baron. ...
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Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Pioneering Photographs of New York City’s 1970s and 80s Graffiti Scene

Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Pioneering Photographs of New York City’s 1970s and 80s Graffiti Scene

The origins of hip hop’s graffiti scene in the crumbling, decaying boroughs of NYC in the 1970s have by now become the stuff of legend ...
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Better Than Sherlock Holmes: Detective Alphonse Bertillon’s Crime Scene Photographs

Better Than Sherlock Holmes: Detective Alphonse Bertillon’s Crime Scene Photographs

According to his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes only had one real rival--the French police detective Alphonse Bertillon. ...
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Secret Movies: Judy Linn photographs Patti Smith

Secret Movies: Judy Linn photographs Patti Smith

They met each other through their boyfriends, New York, the summer of '68. Judy Linn ...
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Found Photos of A Mid-Century Family Christmas

Found Photos of A Mid-Century Family Christmas

Wonderful famsnapshots from a wodnerful time of the year ...
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Pictures of Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and 1980s

Pictures of Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and 1980s

These photographs were taken by the late  Jimmy Forsyth and Robert Hope who in the early 1970s took out a bank loan to buy a Rolleiflex camera. ...
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Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

“I am God in a body,” wrote Vaslav Nijinsky (1879-1944) in his famous Diary. “Everyone has this feeling, but no one uses it.” ...
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Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 essentially to document the adverse effects of modern life on the environment... ...
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Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Hoffa, the granite-faced Midwestern trucking union president with a flexible relationship to ethics might have seemed like an unlikely famous figure just a few years ago. Now, it’s easy to imagine his broad, bulldog mug and combative style, dodging and weaving in congressional hearings in 2019 to cover for his connections. ...
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The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

Found photos of an American town's 1950s get together ...
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Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools

Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools

In 1936 eleven WPA swimming pools opened in the city, giving New Yorkers sweet relief from the heat. The pools were feats of engineering for the time, plus each was architecturally distinct. ...
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The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt  (1950)

The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt (1950)

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.” ...
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