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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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Austin Osman Spare: ‘A Book of Satyrs’ 1906

Austin Osman Spare: ‘A Book of Satyrs’ 1906

An artist, writer, and musician--he played clarinet in a jazz band. Spare was also an occultist and a magician and has been described by writer Alan Moore as “possibly the greatest English magician of the twentieth century.” ...
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When the Alarm Clock Was a Person: The “Knocker-Uppers” of Industrial-Era Britain

When the Alarm Clock Was a Person: The “Knocker-Uppers” of Industrial-Era Britain

Rural laborers, used to keeping time with the seasons, relocated to manufacturing towns and cities at significant rates. They not only had to adjust to dangerous, fast-paced industrial work, but to new schedules... ...
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“Scotland for the Holidays” – Gorgeous Railway Brochures and Posters From the 1930s

“Scotland for the Holidays” – Gorgeous Railway Brochures and Posters From the 1930s

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) were the two largest of the “Big Four” railway companies by the Railways Act of 1921. In fact the LMS was the world’s largest transport organisation and the United Kingdom’s second largest employer, after the Post Office. ...
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Snapshots of Staff at a London Westminster Bank c.1960

Snapshots of Staff at a London Westminster Bank c.1960

One day, around 1960, someone took some quick snapshots of colleagues working at a National Westminster Bank in the City of London probably near Tower Hill. Unfortunately that's all we know. ...
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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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