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That Time Ken Russell Blew Everyone’s Mind with ‘Altered States’: Pages from a Scrapbook and More

That Time Ken Russell Blew Everyone’s Mind with ‘Altered States’: Pages from a Scrapbook and More

There are some writers who think their written words are sacrosanct because in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. The Word trumps everything. Four Kings and an Ace? Can’t beat the Word. ...
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A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

The history of handwashing involves far more than a change in personal habits over time, but a shift in the understanding of the state’s role in public health. ...
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Buy Prints Seeing America In Isolation by George Ault (1940s)

Seeing America In Isolation by George Ault (1940s)

American artist George Ault showed us the America he saw in shades of darkness ...
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Buy Prints Feast Your Eyes! Wonderful and Colorful Lobby Cards of Movies from the 1920s

Feast Your Eyes! Wonderful and Colorful Lobby Cards of Movies from the 1920s

"I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive". Lillian Gish ...
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Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Harry Houdini (1874-1926), the great showman and escapologist, sought to debunk the 1920s fashion for spiritualism in his book A Magician Among The Spirits (1924) ...
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The Intimate Interiors of Jean-Édouard Vuillard – Paysages et Intérieurs (1899)

The Intimate Interiors of Jean-Édouard Vuillard – Paysages et Intérieurs (1899)

“I’ve invented a language that must necessarily spring from a new conception of poetry. I ...
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An Extraordinary Photochrom Tour of Constantinople

An Extraordinary Photochrom Tour of Constantinople

"Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night" ...
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Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Chun discovered a species so terrifying, he called it Vampyrotheuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell,” just one of the many creatures he found, then dissected, labeled, and named. ...
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Buy Prints Polish Artist Wladyslaw T. Benda’s Living Masks

Polish Artist Wladyslaw T. Benda’s Living Masks

  Artist, illustrator and costume designer Wladyslaw Theodore Benda was born in Poznan, Poland on ...
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The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

Their speciality is rhythm; rhythm which is merely a nervous tremor, and rhythm that does not so much stimulate as achieve frenzy! ...
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Two Brothers Photographed Every Stage of the New York City Subway Construction, from 1900-1939

Two Brothers Photographed Every Stage of the New York City Subway Construction, from 1900-1939

“Using cameras with 8-by-10-inch glass negatives,” the brothers “were assigned to record the progress of construction as well as every dislodged flagstone, every cracked brick, every odd building and anything that smelled like a possible lawsuit.” ...
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Mother’s Day Off: Women’s Pub Outing of 1956

Mother’s Day Off: Women’s Pub Outing of 1956

In 1956, British photographer Grace Robertson was on assignment with the ladies who drank at a south London pub ...
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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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