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19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

In September 1859 Edinburgh-born William Carrick opened a studio in St Petersburg. With John MacGregor, Carrick produced portraits of locals he called 'Russian Types', sold as cartes-de-visite to tourists. ...
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Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

In 1948 the car must have looked like the future to many a prospective auto buyer—that is, had Davis ever delivered on his promises to mass produce the vehicle. ...
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Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

In 1960 a teenager rebelled against the cane at his British school ...
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Ronald McDonald Adventures in Scouting : A Troubling 1970s Magazine

Ronald McDonald Adventures in Scouting : A Troubling 1970s Magazine

In the 1970s Ronald McDonald was scouting for girls and boys... ...
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Living in Color: The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Living in Color: The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Here's a color version of Robert E. Jackson black and white Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood. ...
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Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

"I was free to encounter life. I was open and didn't have any agenda. There ...
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Buy Prints The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Ponting, who died in 1935, is best known for photographing Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole in 1911/12 ...
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Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

It's a student party in Wolseley Street in Belfast - what would be called the ...
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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

  TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was ...
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Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Nearly everything about the Los Angeles appealed to him—the endless sprawl, the two-story apartment houses with outdoor stairways, the hot rods, the jazz clubs, the billboards, the sunrises and sunsets, the boulevards that led to the ocean. ...
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Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

  When Spangles were introduced to the British public in 1950 sweets and sugar were ...
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The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

"This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up..." ...
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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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