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Sydney Illuminations (1908 -1925) – Australia Welcomes the United States Great White Fleet in a Blaze of Lights

Sydney Illuminations (1908 -1925) – Australia Welcomes the United States Great White Fleet in a Blaze of Lights

The Australian National Maritime Museum has these terrific pictures of  ‘Sydney Illuminations’, when ships, buildings and the quay were lit up to hail visiting vessels. ...
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Brilliant Posters, Stills and Ephemera of the James Bond Film and Book – Thunderball

Brilliant Posters, Stills and Ephemera of the James Bond Film and Book – Thunderball

“Good living, sex and violent action: a highly polished performance, an ingenious plot and plenty of excitement” ...
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“It’s Meat and Drink to You” – 100 Years of Oxo Cube Adverts

“It’s Meat and Drink to You” – 100 Years of Oxo Cube Adverts

Even the busiest housewife can make a meal in a moment! ...
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Captivating P & O Shipping Line Adverts

Captivating P & O Shipping Line Adverts

P&O first introduced passenger services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Athens, sailing from Southampton these were the forerunners of the modern cruise holidays and were the first of their kind. ...
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23 Vintage Snapshots On The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

23 Vintage Snapshots On The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Do you believe in ghosts? What do you see in these haunting images from yesteryear? ...
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Thirteen Fabulous BBC Year Book Covers from 1928 – 1966

Thirteen Fabulous BBC Year Book Covers from 1928 – 1966

The BBC's handbooks came out annually from 1928 to 1987 and were illustrated by the most prestigious artists of the day - often creating stimulating and daring covers. ...
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Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s postcards

Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s postcards

Billy Butlin’s inspiration for his holiday camp empire actually came from a bad holiday on Barry Island in his youth when he had been locked out of his B&B all day by his landlady.  ...
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The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...
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Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

A gorgeous series of slides documenting an American's travels in the 1950s and 1960s ...
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Banned In The USA: Charges et Décharges Diaboliques by Eugène Lepoittevin

Banned In The USA: Charges et Décharges Diaboliques by Eugène Lepoittevin

Twelve satirical images the USA once considered "obscene and immoral" (NSFW) ...
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Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll

Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll

The nightmarish, curious and rather cute demons were created in the Edo period ...
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Wonderful Kodachrome Photos of London in 1949

Wonderful Kodachrome Photos of London in 1949

Four fabulous colour photographs of London in 1949 ...
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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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