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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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Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report from Filming on the Bowery

Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report from Filming on the Bowery

“That was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone.” Paul Schrader ...
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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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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