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When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

This might well be the last thing you read before The Bomb drops. Do not be afraid. Act now. ...
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Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Banned in Japan: when giant catfish shook the country ...
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Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

60 hobo signs, used in the Great Depression by transient working class men and women who traveled by train, looking for jobs and sustenance ...
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Moving People At Chicago’s Union Station In January 1943 by Jack Delano

Moving People At Chicago’s Union Station In January 1943 by Jack Delano

Jack Delano's honest and telling photographs of people coming and going at Chicago's Union Station ...
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Buy Prints ‘Filled with Intuitions and Conjectures’ – Bruno Schulz, the Man who Knew What he Didn’t Know

‘Filled with Intuitions and Conjectures’ – Bruno Schulz, the Man who Knew What he Didn’t Know

A man whose wonderful imagination was caught up in a ‘swarm of identities and nationalities’.  ...
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Inside the 80s and 90s New York Drag Clubs that Made RuPaul a Star

Inside the 80s and 90s New York Drag Clubs that Made RuPaul a Star

It was “a hedonistic, wild atmosphere because I think the police were too busy dealing with crime, that they didn’t have time or clubs weren’t much of a concern.” ...
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A Dutch Spy’s Photographs of the Liberation of the Netherlands – May 1945

A Dutch Spy’s Photographs of the Liberation of the Netherlands – May 1945

Menno Huizinga (October 28, 1907 - September 14, 1947) was a Dutch photographer working as a spy for the Resistance. He was then when the Germans surrendered ...
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The Inglorious History of King’s Cross and its Station – a haunt of Thieves and Murderers

The Inglorious History of King’s Cross and its Station – a haunt of Thieves and Murderers

When King’s Cross station opened on 14th October 1852 the building was greatly admired but in an era famed for the opposite the station was as practical and lacking of superfluous ornament as the locomotives it was made to house. ...
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The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!

The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!

John Varney, Sheffield 'Ace Face' replied 'are you kidding mate - the weekend starts here' and the slogan was born. ...
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Marilyn Monroe Stars In The Brilliant  Day-Glo Designers Guide – 1969

Marilyn Monroe Stars In The Brilliant Day-Glo Designers Guide – 1969

The Day-Glo Corporation produced this lush coil-bound book in 1969 to showcase their latest line of fluorescent inks. ...
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Dr Harold Norman Fisk’s Outstanding Maps of the Mississippi River – 1944

Dr Harold Norman Fisk’s Outstanding Maps of the Mississippi River – 1944

Geographer's lush maps flow like the River their depict ...
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Eugenics And Making The American Master Race One Better Baby At A Time

Eugenics And Making The American Master Race One Better Baby At A Time

In the early 20th Century America wanted to create a perfect society by creating Better Babies through competition and sterilization ...
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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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