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Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the ...
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The Totally Rad Fad of 1980’s BMX

The Totally Rad Fad of 1980’s BMX

The odd little bikes don’t look ridable by anyone over twelve years old - and they are, in point of fact, designed for children. But... ...
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Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

"My pix, mostly developed by me in my Boro Park darkroom in the 70's. Remember ...
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From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

Becoming the first person from a marginalized group to integrate an industry is not so much an honor as an endurance test. Anna May Wong, the first Asian-American Hollywood film star, learned this lesson in the 1920s and 30s ...
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The Teenager Who Egged Frank Sinatra And The Bobby Sox Riot – New York City, 1944

The Teenager Who Egged Frank Sinatra And The Bobby Sox Riot – New York City, 1944

In 1944 Alexander Dorogokupetz became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared. ...
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A Walk Around Carlisle in 1975

A Walk Around Carlisle in 1975

Cars, crazy golf, city walls and concrete - a tour of Carlisle, England in the mid 1970s ...
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The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The 73 autochromes of Ireland that French academics Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon took in May and June 1913 are the first colour photographs of the island ...
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In the Moshpits of the Working Class Punk Scene of Newcastle, 1985

In the Moshpits of the Working Class Punk Scene of Newcastle, 1985

One night, somebody said I should check out The Station – an anarcho-punk venue set up in an old police social club in Gateshead ...
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The Illustrated Bicycling For Ladies And 41 Rules For Women Cyclists (1896)

The Illustrated Bicycling For Ladies And 41 Rules For Women Cyclists (1896)

  The American civil rights leader, Susan B Anthony (1820 - 1906) was a fan ...
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Clandestine Portraits of People Riding The New York Subway 1938-1941

Clandestine Portraits of People Riding The New York Subway 1938-1941

From 1938 to 1941, Walker Evans took hundreds of photographs with a hidden camera of Subway riders ...
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Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things

Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things

In the years between the wars, the pent-up demand for pleasure and creativity exploded. This was the Jazz Age, the age of Weimar cabaret culture, the Lost Generation in Paris, and of London’s Bright Young Things ...
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Working, Shopping And Waiting for Martians In Bainbridge, Georgia from 1961-1981

Working, Shopping And Waiting for Martians In Bainbridge, Georgia from 1961-1981

Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) shows us life in Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia from 1961-1981. People are ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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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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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    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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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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