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Late 1960s Photographs of Saigon Going about Its Business While the Vietnam War Rages

Late 1960s Photographs of Saigon Going about Its Business While the Vietnam War Rages

The city’s daily business continued. In the photos here from the late sixties, we can see the odd reminder that a war rages on multiple battlefronts outside the city—a few armed South Vietnamese soldiers here and there. ...
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Symphonies of Brown and Green – Beautiful British Pre-war British Travel Posters

Symphonies of Brown and Green – Beautiful British Pre-war British Travel Posters

                 
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A Night in Atlantis: Nick Peacock’s Photographs of Clubbing in 1990

A Night in Atlantis: Nick Peacock’s Photographs of Clubbing in 1990

In November 1990, Peacock was commissioned by a music magazine to document one night at a Glasgow club... ...
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Fight Dem Back! The Battle of Lewisham: When The Fascists Were Beaten in 1977

Fight Dem Back! The Battle of Lewisham: When The Fascists Were Beaten in 1977

On Saturday 13 August 1977, the fascists were ready to march through south-east London. The Locals were ready and waiting to fight them off ...
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The Remarkable Photographs of Umbo (Otto Umbehr)

The Remarkable Photographs of Umbo (Otto Umbehr)

Umbo's work has an uncanny, surreal edge that pushes it beyond simple documentation... ...
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The Man From Mars Visits New York and Other Pictures that Made the News

The Man From Mars Visits New York and Other Pictures that Made the News

The NYWTS published many great and historical photographs which reflect the era they were taken in as much as they reverberate with events today. ...
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An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

A scarce police equipment catalogue featuring numerous illustrations of weaponry and equipment, and doubling as a policeman’s ‘how-to’ guide. ...
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The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

Frédillo (or Fredillo) was a French cartoonist and illustrator working in the late 19th Century. ...
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Portraits of Alice Liddell, the Original Alice in Wonderland, Taken by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron

Portraits of Alice Liddell, the Original Alice in Wonderland, Taken by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron

Yes, Virginia, there is an Alice—or there was, at any rate, though she did not go to Wonderland but boating on the Thames with her sisters Edith and Lorina, the Rev. Robinson Duckworth, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known to readers around the world as Lewis Carroll. ...
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A Coney Island of the Mind: Fifty Years of Photographing the Legendary Brooklyn “People’s Beach”

A Coney Island of the Mind: Fifty Years of Photographing the Legendary Brooklyn “People’s Beach”

Called at various times in its history “the World’s Greatest Playground,” “the People’s Beach,” and “Sodom on the Sea,” Coney Island's history is intimately tied to the art and culture of the US. ...
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Movie Posters of the Soviet Avant-Garde

Movie Posters of the Soviet Avant-Garde

These movie posters from the 1920s are an electrifying record of a cultural spirit and mood from the pre-Stalin days of the Soviet Union... ...
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Reaching Out: That’s Me In Photo That Defined The Vietnam War

Reaching Out: That’s Me In Photo That Defined The Vietnam War

"That's my father with his hand reaching out!! " said Josh Hadley when he noticed a photo on our Facebook Page of Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, South Vietnam, October 1966 by Larry Burrows ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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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 reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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