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Wild-Wacky-Stylish: Vintage Photos of Women’s Hats Through the Ages

Wild-Wacky-Stylish: Vintage Photos of Women’s Hats Through the Ages

"In honor of spring and Easter, here's post on women wearing hats as found in my collection" - Robert E. Jackson ...
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Andy Warhol Mocks Fine Dining in a Rare, Satirical Hand-Illustrated Cookbook from 1959

Andy Warhol Mocks Fine Dining in a Rare, Satirical Hand-Illustrated Cookbook from 1959

Called Wild Raspberries, the outlandish recipes were written by interior designer Suzie Frankfurt and included Edward Gorey-esque dishes like “Omelet Greta Garbo,” which is “always to be eaten alone in a candlelit room.” ...
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Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when ...
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The London Airport Official Guide, 1956 – Illustrated by Feliks Topolski  and Cullen Gordon

The London Airport Official Guide, 1956 – Illustrated by Feliks Topolski and Cullen Gordon

As well as the 'official' guides published by the airport themselves other publishers got in on the act and this is one of the once numerous booklets issued by Pitkin Pictorials. ...
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The Horror, The Horror! Classic Covers to Famous Monsters of Filmland

The Horror, The Horror! Classic Covers to Famous Monsters of Filmland

Trying to find copies of Famous Monsters when domiciled 3,000+ miles away from the action ...
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An Artist On LSD Drew These 9 Pictures of His Doctor In The 1950s

An Artist On LSD Drew These 9 Pictures of His Doctor In The 1950s

In the 1950s, artists took part in controlled tests overseen by Oscar Janiger , a University of California-Irvine psychiatrist interested in LSD ...
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Fabulous Snapshots From A Florida Hair Salon in the 1980s

Fabulous Snapshots From A Florida Hair Salon in the 1980s

Found photos from Hairstyles of The Rich and Famous of Tampa in the mid 1980s ...
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Four Amazing Stories from some London Hotels

Four Amazing Stories from some London Hotels

Mussolini, the FBI’s Most Wanted, Barbara Windsor, and a beautiful French woman who got away with murder. ...
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Buy Prints Surreal Illustrations From JJ Grandville’s Un Autre Monde (1844)

Surreal Illustrations From JJ Grandville’s Un Autre Monde (1844)

“Until now, I believe, no work of art has understood and expressed dreams" - JJ Grandville ...
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When The Jazz Ambassadors Brought American Racism to The USSR

When The Jazz Ambassadors Brought American Racism to The USSR

In 1956, the US State Department created the Jazz Ambassadors program, hiring American jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington to be "ambassadors" for the United States overseas. ...
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The Subversive, Queer and Iconic Covers to Films & Filming Magazine 1970-81 (NSFW)

The Subversive, Queer and Iconic Covers to Films & Filming Magazine 1970-81 (NSFW)

Robin Bean described Films and Filming as a magazine for "gay men in the closet" who could ogle semi-naked stars on public transport without anyone thinking they were queer. ...
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When Charlie Chaplin Came 20th In A Charlie Chaplin Look-alike Contest

When Charlie Chaplin Came 20th In A Charlie Chaplin Look-alike Contest

When Charlie Chaplin entered in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1920, he should have polled pretty high. ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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