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The Fine Art of Ju-Jutsu by Mrs Roger Watts Published in 1906

The Fine Art of Ju-Jutsu by Mrs Roger Watts Published in 1906

Emily Diana Watts (1867–1968) was among the first female instructors of the Japanese art of jujitsu in the Western world. ...
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Fabulous Kodachrome Snapshots from a Day Trip to London in 1962

Fabulous Kodachrome Snapshots from a Day Trip to London in 1962

  Some great Kodachrome snapshots of a day trip to London in 1962. From a ...
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Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

The great antipodean actor, writer, genius surrealist comic performer, father and mother of Dame Edna Everage, inventor and cousin twice removed to Sir Les Patterson, Mr. Barry Humphries has long been a fan of the artist Charles Conder. ...
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Crime Story: Beautiful Photographs Reveals America At War With Itself in 1957 by Gordon Parks

Crime Story: Beautiful Photographs Reveals America At War With Itself in 1957 by Gordon Parks

In 1957 Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to show readers that crime looked like in the United States. ...
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Pictures

The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Pictures

Despite its "permanently revisionist stance in international affairs," the state had become moribund. The revolution was over. ...
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Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

  At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - ...
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Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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Buy Prints From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...
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The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

At the start of his teens, Schadeberg was forced into the Hitler Youth. He hated it and everything it represented. Sometimes he marched backwards, or wore bright colours instead of the standard issue brown shirt. On other occasions he mimicked Charlie Chaplin as der Führer. ...
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Fights, Booze and John Ford’s ‘Greatest Triumph’: ‘The Quiet Man’

Fights, Booze and John Ford’s ‘Greatest Triumph’: ‘The Quiet Man’

Ford wanted everyone to know he was a tough, no-nonsense son-of-a-bitch. He had a sneaking suspicion that making movies might make him seem slightly effete. To counter, fists would fly as the shot glasses clinked. ...
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Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

His looks fascinated people and he became an iconic cult figure with horror buffs. ...
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