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The Art of King Kong: How the Great Ape Was First Sold to International Audiences in 1933

The Art of King Kong: How the Great Ape Was First Sold to International Audiences in 1933

Kong is misunderstood: his instinct is protective rather than destructive. ...
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Kodachrome Photographs of Beirut, Lebanon In May 1965

Kodachrome Photographs of Beirut, Lebanon In May 1965

American Charles Cushman's photographs of Lebanon before the wars ...
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Torture Devices For Your Frat House And Lodge From A 1908 Catalogue

Torture Devices For Your Frat House And Lodge From A 1908 Catalogue

'Every article in this catalog is guaranteed to be exactly as represented' - DeMoulin Brothers & Co. of Greenville, Illinois ...
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The Attitude of Sydney Street Life by Australian Flaneur Arthur K Syer – Photographs 1885-1890

The Attitude of Sydney Street Life by Australian Flaneur Arthur K Syer – Photographs 1885-1890

Syer’s low angle photographs were taken surreptitiously, using a ‘detective camera’. Such cameras, sometimes concealed in parcels or portmanteau, were made possible with the invention of the dry plate in 1880. ...
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Vintage Hollywood Stars Dressed-Up as Easter Bunnies – And Why They Did It

Vintage Hollywood Stars Dressed-Up as Easter Bunnies – And Why They Did It

This allegedly is how the Easter Bunny and the fine tradition of giving chocolate eggs to people on Easter Sunday morning began. ...
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Ghost Town: Photographer Documents A Deserted Glasgow During Lockdown

Ghost Town: Photographer Documents A Deserted Glasgow During Lockdown

For photographer and archivist Neil McDonald, Lockdown was an opportunity to document the impact of a global pandemic on his home city of Glasgow ...
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High Times: Mary Jane Rathbun’s Marijuana Brownies

High Times: Mary Jane Rathbun’s Marijuana Brownies

'If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy's window' - Mary Jane Rathbun ...
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Masonic Watches : Vintage Brotherhood Timepieces

Masonic Watches : Vintage Brotherhood Timepieces

You don't need to be a Freemason to get the Brotherhood's watch - but US Presidents and many others who are do ...
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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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    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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    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    Naming a song after a woman has, over the years, become the biggest music cliché ever; however, there’s been a ton of great ones, and is thereby prime fodder for music lists. So, here's the rules: (1) The song has to have a female's name in the title, but not ...
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