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When the Alarm Clock Was a Person: The “Knocker-Uppers” of Industrial-Era Britain

Rural laborers, used to keeping time with the seasons, relocated to manufacturing towns and cities at significant rates. They not only had to adjust to dangerous, fast-paced industrial work, but to new schedules... ...

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“Scotland for the Holidays” – Gorgeous Railway Brochures and Posters From the 1930s

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) were the two largest of the “Big Four” railway companies by the Railways Act of 1921. In fact the LMS was the world’s largest transport organisation and the United Kingdom’s second largest employer, after the Post Office. ...

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Snapshots of Staff at a London Westminster Bank c.1960

One day, around 1960, someone took some quick snapshots of colleagues working at a National Westminster Bank in the City of London probably near Tower Hill. Unfortunately that's all we know. ...

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Ghosts in the Machine: The beauty of decayed daguerreotypes

The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process invented by French theatre-designer Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839. ...

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Stars of Late 20th Century Fashion by Harry Benson

"A good photograph can never happen again,’ says Benson. ‘To me, that’s what photography is – a glimpse, and gone forever" - Harry Benson ...

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Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

At the very end of the 19th century the American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem. ...

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A Girl’s Handmade Record of Her Cats’ Whiskers From 1941

An extraordinary book and an unusual hobby ...

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The Models That Time Forgot ‘Mannequin Heaven’ by Michael Prince

One of the most creative photographers working today, Prince has a knack for making an image steal the breath, pop the hairs, and linger in the ole meme bank long after it's first scanned. ...

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To Kay From Warren, Ohio – And Other Stars of A Great 1960s Yearbook

Nigel Maister opens up a glorious found yearbook from 1961 ...

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The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...

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Letizia Battaglia’s Photographs of the Sicilian Mafia in the Last Decades of the 20th Century

. Battaglia risked her life to tell these grim stories of violence and corruption, considering it her duty to show the brutal truth. ...

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Gorgeous Vintage New Year’s Greeting Cards – Circa 1900

These greeting cards from the late 19th and early 20th-century celebrate the New Year with lucky pigs, foxes fleeing for their lives and at least one drunk frog ...

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