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From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

Becoming the first person from a marginalized group to integrate an industry is not so much an honor as an endurance test. Anna May Wong, the first Asian-American Hollywood film star, learned this lesson in the 1920s and 30s ...
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The Teenager Who Egged Frank Sinatra And The Bobby Sox Riot – New York City, 1944

The Teenager Who Egged Frank Sinatra And The Bobby Sox Riot – New York City, 1944

In 1944 Alexander Dorogokupetz became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared. ...
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A Walk Around Carlisle in 1975

A Walk Around Carlisle in 1975

Cars, crazy golf, city walls and concrete - a tour of Carlisle, England in the mid 1970s ...
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The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The 73 autochromes of Ireland that French academics Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon took in May and June 1913 are the first colour photographs of the island ...
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In the Moshpits of the Working Class Punk Scene of Newcastle, 1985

In the Moshpits of the Working Class Punk Scene of Newcastle, 1985

One night, somebody said I should check out The Station – an anarcho-punk venue set up in an old police social club in Gateshead ...
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The Illustrated Bicycling For Ladies And 41 Rules For Women Cyclists (1896)

The Illustrated Bicycling For Ladies And 41 Rules For Women Cyclists (1896)

  The American civil rights leader, Susan B Anthony (1820 - 1906) was a fan ...
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Clandestine Portraits of People Riding The New York Subway 1938-1941

Clandestine Portraits of People Riding The New York Subway 1938-1941

From 1938 to 1941, Walker Evans took hundreds of photographs with a hidden camera of Subway riders ...
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Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things

Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things

In the years between the wars, the pent-up demand for pleasure and creativity exploded. This was the Jazz Age, the age of Weimar cabaret culture, the Lost Generation in Paris, and of London’s Bright Young Things ...
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Working, Shopping And Waiting for Martians In Bainbridge, Georgia from 1961-1981

Working, Shopping And Waiting for Martians In Bainbridge, Georgia from 1961-1981

Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) shows us life in Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia from 1961-1981. People are ...
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Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century

Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century

Prostitutes, killers, cocaine finds and 'the most evil woman in Sydney' ...
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Life In Tallahassee, Florida in The 1950s – Black, White and Red All Over

Life In Tallahassee, Florida in The 1950s – Black, White and Red All Over

Benjamin L. 'Red' Kerce's photographic record of a Florida city show us a city in turmoil ...
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Gatecrashing An American Family Party From Old Snapshots

Gatecrashing An American Family Party From Old Snapshots

In 2018, LaChapelle constructed “neo-­collages” from snapshots taken during family gatherings in America during the 1970-­1980s ...
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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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