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The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

'As air escaped from the [spacecraft’s air lock], the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster’s claw'. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began to worry... ...
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A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke

A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke

John Burke was a writer, a very prolific writer, who wrote about 150 novels, most of which were movie or television tie-in books. ...
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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

"I've always felt that photographs for me were primarily for reproduction and for mass distribution. A photograph is something for lots and lots of people to see." ...
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Bad Seed : The Kicking 1980s Juvenile Delinquency Zine and T-Shirt

Bad Seed : The Kicking 1980s Juvenile Delinquency Zine and T-Shirt

Published 1984-85, Bad Seed was Miriam Linna’s celebration of Juvenile Delinquency, the “overnight plunge into general degeneracy” among US teens in the 50s. ...
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Buy Prints ‘Narre Tod, Mein Spielgesell’ – Fool Death, My Playmate by Franz Fiedler – c. 1922

‘Narre Tod, Mein Spielgesell’ – Fool Death, My Playmate by Franz Fiedler – c. 1922

A weird and wonderful album of life's dance with sex, love and death ...
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‘I Am A Camera’: Jill Freedman’s Street Photography

‘I Am A Camera’: Jill Freedman’s Street Photography

“Woody Guthrie had his guitar that said this machine kills fascists. I’d love to do that with a camera” – Jill Freedman ...
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A Youth Without a Future? – Australian Teenage Life in 1949

A Youth Without a Future? – Australian Teenage Life in 1949

Australian teenagers are attracted by an outside culture and way of life which is not integrated with the native or British way of life. By attempting to grown up as foreigners in their own country, teenagers are causing cultural friction between the generations, making themselves unhappy and inclined to revolt. ...
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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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The Ink Beast Parade (1903 – 1908)

The Ink Beast Parade (1903 – 1908)

Augustus Ludwig Jansson's Inkydinks and Ink Beasts are advertising at its best ...
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NASA’s Number 1 Space Suits Model

NASA’s Number 1 Space Suits Model

Hubert “Vic” Vykukal was the principal designer and investigator of the AX space suit series. He was also the company's model ...
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My Dad and Our Lexikon 80 Typewriter : The  British Olivetti Factory in Glasgow 1957

My Dad and Our Lexikon 80 Typewriter : The British Olivetti Factory in Glasgow 1957

John J Brady's late father worked at the Olivetti typewriter factory in Glasgow. These photos and John's Lexikon 80 take us back there ...
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Buy Prints The Indomitable Goldie Williams : The Life And Times of a Defiant Prostitute (1898)

The Indomitable Goldie Williams : The Life And Times of a Defiant Prostitute (1898)

Arrested on January 29, 1898, the police notes tell us that Williams, also known as Mag Murphy, stood just 5 feet tall and weighed 110 pounds. ...
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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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