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When Boris Karloff went on a Celebrity Ghost Hunt

When Boris Karloff went on a Celebrity Ghost Hunt

It was an average, normal day in 1950's London when Boris Karloff went on a ghost hunt... ...
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Telling Photographs of Rural Black Americans in the U.S. South During the 1980s

Telling Photographs of Rural Black Americans in the U.S. South During the 1980s

“It was not my goal to document poverty or economic injustice. It was always based on a very specific human aspect” - Baldwin Lee ...
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Interior Design: Carol M. Highsmith’s Hallways of America

Interior Design: Carol M. Highsmith’s Hallways of America

I work every day with a heartfelt commitment to document the living history and built environment of our times. I consider my work an indestructible record of our vast nation, including sites that are fast fading, even disappearing, in the wake of growth, development, and decay. ...
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Buy Prints Meet Toni Frissell – The Woman who Shot the Kennedys, Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Fashion Models, and the Tuskegee Airmen

Meet Toni Frissell – The Woman who Shot the Kennedys, Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Fashion Models, and the Tuskegee Airmen

Toni Frissell, whose photographic work crossed genres from fashion to portraiture, photo-journalism to war photography, artistic to sports. ...
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‘Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got’ – A Sophia Loren Gallery

‘Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got’ – A Sophia Loren Gallery

Sophia Loren grew up in the outskirts of Naples, one of Italy's poorest regions, and was so skinny as a child that other children in her neighbourhood named her "The Toothpick." ...
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Buy Prints Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the ...
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Émile Zola’s Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century Paris

Émile Zola’s Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century Paris

I dare… to tell the truth, with all the force born of the revulsion of an honest man, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. - Émile Zola ...
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Filming Sky West And Crooked in England, 1964

Filming Sky West And Crooked in England, 1964

Amateur photographer Brian Candy's pictures of a star family shooting a movie ...
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How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s

How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s

The Gay Liberation Front included an upraised fist in its symbolism and helped organize the first Pride march in New York in 1970. ...
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Tokyo In Deep : Unseen Photographs by Issei Suda (1970s-80s)

Tokyo In Deep : Unseen Photographs by Issei Suda (1970s-80s)

A new book of her work features life in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures in the 1970s and '80s. ...
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Buy Prints How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

Leonid Brezhnev, the fifth leader of the USSR, ran across the tarmac to bear-hug his favourite actor, and star of his favourite TV show The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, who then lifted the Soviet leader clear off the ground. ...
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‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing

‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing

"...the following are some of the things I have had to do to keep from going nuts" ...
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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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