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I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

In 1948 former Wizard of Oz Munchkin Parnell St. Aubin set up a bar with his new wife Mary Ellen Burbach, the former midget Mae West ...
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When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes

When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes

There was a time when doctors actively promoted cigarettes—or at least appeared to—in dozens of ads with supposedly authoritative testimonials from physicians. ...
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Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go! Brilliant 1980s Pop Music Publicity Photos

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go! Brilliant 1980s Pop Music Publicity Photos

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ...
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You Better Watch Out! Vintage Scary Santa Snapshots

You Better Watch Out! Vintage Scary Santa Snapshots

  "I'm sorry you saw me, Timmy," says Santa to the boy watching him place ...
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Beautiful LNER Posters of the 1930s

Beautiful LNER Posters of the 1930s

Railway posters that offered, let's face it, a slightly unrealistic promise of sunshine, romance, fast trains and sophistication. ...
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Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974

Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974

Many of the photographs, including those of Lyon’s, are the only distinct visual record of the time and place. ...
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Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Walking up “the Lane”, as we called it, was a stroll through the English class system even then as one progressed towards Holland Park. Notting Hill didn’t become gentrified – it always was. What happened was that North Kensington became Notting Hill. ...
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Paul Sougy : Wonderful Illustrations On The Human Body

Paul Sougy : Wonderful Illustrations On The Human Body

In the mid 20th Century, French teachers would teach science with these delightful wall hangings ...
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A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

Photographs of miners going to work and at the coal face ...
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Brilliant Photos, Lobby Cards and Posters from the Beatles’ Film – A Hard Day’s Night

Brilliant Photos, Lobby Cards and Posters from the Beatles’ Film – A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day's Night was intended as, "a low-budget exploitation movie to milk the latest brief musical craze for all it was worth." ...
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Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photography wasn’t given credence as a legitimate art form and even classic Soviet photography wasn’t included in museum exhibitions. In order to get their work seen, photographers started their own clubs, exchanging work with other clubs and organizing their own exhibitions and festivals. ...
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John Hinde and his Fabulous Colourful Postcards

John Hinde and his Fabulous Colourful Postcards

Hinde was an innovator in a world where serious photography was black and white, and where colour photography was poor – because neither Ireland nor Britain had the technological capabilities to reproduce the vibrant hues Hinde dreamed of. ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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