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The Intimate Interiors of Jean-Édouard Vuillard – Paysages et Intérieurs (1899)

The Intimate Interiors of Jean-Édouard Vuillard – Paysages et Intérieurs (1899)

“I’ve invented a language that must necessarily spring from a new conception of poetry. I ...
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An Extraordinary Photochrom Tour of Constantinople

An Extraordinary Photochrom Tour of Constantinople

"Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night" ...
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Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Chun discovered a species so terrifying, he called it Vampyrotheuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell,” just one of the many creatures he found, then dissected, labeled, and named. ...
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Buy Prints Polish Artist Wladyslaw T. Benda’s Living Masks

Polish Artist Wladyslaw T. Benda’s Living Masks

  Artist, illustrator and costume designer Wladyslaw Theodore Benda was born in Poznan, Poland on ...
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The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

Their speciality is rhythm; rhythm which is merely a nervous tremor, and rhythm that does not so much stimulate as achieve frenzy! ...
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Two Brothers Photographed Every Stage of the New York City Subway Construction, from 1900-1939

Two Brothers Photographed Every Stage of the New York City Subway Construction, from 1900-1939

“Using cameras with 8-by-10-inch glass negatives,” the brothers “were assigned to record the progress of construction as well as every dislodged flagstone, every cracked brick, every odd building and anything that smelled like a possible lawsuit.” ...
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Mother’s Day Off: Women’s Pub Outing of 1956

Mother’s Day Off: Women’s Pub Outing of 1956

In 1956, British photographer Grace Robertson was on assignment with the ladies who drank at a south London pub ...
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Lobby Cards for Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece ‘The Beyond’ (1981)

Lobby Cards for Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece ‘The Beyond’ (1981)

In 1927 at the Seven Doors Hotel in Louisiana, an artist named Schweick was murdered by a mob who believed he was an evil warlock in league with the Devil... ...
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How Mussolini Won the Propaganda War: 1922-1943

How Mussolini Won the Propaganda War: 1922-1943

The art of indoctrination - how political propagandists tried to on shape the 20th century into “a Fascist century” ...
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Also Comes in Khaki! – Fascinating British WW2 Adverts

Also Comes in Khaki! – Fascinating British WW2 Adverts

"All you fellows seem to take the whole business so casually and yet so capably." ...
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Photos of Germany and Holland in 1981 by Simon Nowicki

Photos of Germany and Holland in 1981 by Simon Nowicki

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. - Julie Burchill ...
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The Beautiful, Surreal and Sometimes Sinister Artwork of Jaco Putker

The Beautiful, Surreal and Sometimes Sinister Artwork of Jaco Putker

Putker claims there is no one influence on his work other than his abiding interest in "Nature and in how nature works, in its perfection and self-reliance and its power of rejuvenation and destruction. In how it has a profound effect on not just me, but on virtually every human being." ...
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