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Mark Twain On Racism And What The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Teaches Us About God’s Unjust Love

Mark Twain On Racism And What The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Teaches Us About God’s Unjust Love

Produced by Quakers Hannah and Mary Townsend, The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was showcased at the 1846 Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery society fair. ...
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Edward Gorey Illustrates War of The Worlds (1960)

Edward Gorey Illustrates War of The Worlds (1960)

In 1960 American artists Edward Gorey drew pen and ink illustrations for a 1960 edition of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds ...
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A Veritable Smorgasbord of Vintage Scandinavian Airline Meals

A Veritable Smorgasbord of Vintage Scandinavian Airline Meals

A few years ago for their seventieth anniversary Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pulled out some old menu cards and and pictures of in-flight meals. Times have definitely changed... ...
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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

illustrations for Amédée Guillemin's encyclopedia make science beautiful ...
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‘A Minor Wonder of the World’ – Speakers’ Corner in London – 1981

‘A Minor Wonder of the World’ – Speakers’ Corner in London – 1981

George Orwell once described Speakers' Corner as "one of the minor wonders of the world", and listened to "Indian nationalists, temperance reformers, Communists, Trotskyists, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), the Catholic Evidence Society, freethinkers, vegetarians, Mormons, the Salvation Army, the Church Army, and a large variety of plain lunatics". ...
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Hanging Out With A Swiss Youth Tribe in The 1950s

Hanging Out With A Swiss Youth Tribe in The 1950s

Karlheinz Weinberger's photographs of the Halbstarken youth tribe ...
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A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

In 1940 a German soldier took these photographs of Jews being sent to the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland ...
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The Tattooed Venus and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Sydney 1937

The Tattooed Venus and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Sydney 1937

Betty Broadbent was said to have had 465 tattoos, including the largest known at that time, a Madonna and Child on her back. She was also decorated with images of pilot Charles Lindbergh, patriotic flags and emblems including the American eagle. ...
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Fashion: An Anthology – The Mastery of Cecil Beaton and Vern Lambert in 1971

Fashion: An Anthology – The Mastery of Cecil Beaton and Vern Lambert in 1971

My recent Rocketman post gave me cause to dig out my copy of the catalogue ...
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Pictures of Waterloo Station in 1974

Pictures of Waterloo Station in 1974

Waterloo Station is named after the bridge which is named after the battle named after the town in Belgium where Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. ...
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‘The Cathedral of Electrons’ – The Story of Battersea Power Station

‘The Cathedral of Electrons’ – The Story of Battersea Power Station

Most of the extraordinary detail inside the power station, that once made the London writer Felix Barker to compare the power station to the great church of Sainte-Cécile at Albi in the south of France, has now gone – obliterated. ...
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I Am Not A Wedding Photographer : Fabulous Portraits of the British Enjoying A Bit of A Do

I Am Not A Wedding Photographer : Fabulous Portraits of the British Enjoying A Bit of A Do

British photographer Ian Weldon shows us joy in the dull bits at British weddings ...
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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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