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The Power of the Feminine: Deborah Stevenson’s Beautiful and Compelling Collage Artworks

The Power of the Feminine: Deborah Stevenson’s Beautiful and Compelling Collage Artworks

There is no intention to create a specific image. Instead, American artist Deborah Stevenson surrounds her work table with dozens of images cut from magazines, newspapers, books and photographs. ...
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Why Charles M Schulz Told A Black Character He Couldn’t Play In the NHL

Why Charles M Schulz Told A Black Character He Couldn’t Play In the NHL

A reader 1986 letter complaining of racism in Peanuts - and Charles M. Schulz's hard-hitting reply ...
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“Same Damn ‘Lo Sweater” – From Palaces to the Projects – They All Love Ralph Lauren

“Same Damn ‘Lo Sweater” – From Palaces to the Projects – They All Love Ralph Lauren

“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes?", he once said, "Does it have to do with class and money? No, it has to do with dreams”. ...
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When Nick Cave Led The Birthday Party, Once Called a “One Band War” and “The Most Violent Band in Britain”

When Nick Cave Led The Birthday Party, Once Called a “One Band War” and “The Most Violent Band in Britain”

Before Nick Cave became an elder statesman, goth troubadour, novelist, and surprisingly wise and compassionate ...
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With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

In 1955, Emma Gatewood of Ohio, the first woman to complete the hike, did so on her second try. She was 67 years old, a mother of 11, and a grandmother of many more. ...
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Buy Prints Writers, Actors, Singers, Stars: Carl Van Vechten’s Iconic Portrait Photographs

Writers, Actors, Singers, Stars: Carl Van Vechten’s Iconic Portrait Photographs

Carl Van Vechten's career as a writer almost ended as soon as it began. Van ...
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Oh I Say! Glorious Vintage Tennis posters 1895-1956

Oh I Say! Glorious Vintage Tennis posters 1895-1956

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. J.M. Barrie ...
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Gorgeous Portraits of Katharine Hepburn By George Hoyningen-Huene In 1934

Gorgeous Portraits of Katharine Hepburn By George Hoyningen-Huene In 1934

In 1934, hymned photographer George Hoyningen-Huene met movie star Katherine Hepburn and created these beautiful photos ...
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The Stunning, High-Art Rock Photography of Art Kane

The Stunning, High-Art Rock Photography of Art Kane

Careers like that of photographer Art Kane seem like exactly what the phrase “strength to strength” was meant to describe. ...
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People of Harlem, New York in July 1970

People of Harlem, New York in July 1970

During the late 1960s and early 1970s Harlem had seen some of its worst times historically. The drug addiction rate in Harlem was 10 times the average rate of NYC and many middle class Harlemites moved out to other boroughs and suburbs for better schools and safer streets.” ...
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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...
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Beachcomber bars, ballrooms and snooker halls…Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards

Beachcomber bars, ballrooms and snooker halls…Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards

Huge, beautifully lit 'narrative tableaux' of Beachcomber bars, gardens, outdoor swimming pools, ballrooms and snooker halls ...
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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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