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Women At The British Nylon Spinners Factory (1964)

Women At The British Nylon Spinners Factory (1964)

"It takes a special eye to make arduous industrial processes and perilous manual labour seem sexy, epic and mysterious" - Tim Teeman on Maurice Broomfield ...
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“The Only Good Girl in Hollywood” – Pictures of the Beautiful Myrna Loy

“The Only Good Girl in Hollywood” – Pictures of the Beautiful Myrna Loy

'Wouldn't you know, the kid they pick to play tramps is the only good girl in Hollywood.' - John Ford, 1929 ...
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Lifebuoy B.O. Comics For Nose-Blind Women  (1930s-1940s)

Lifebuoy B.O. Comics For Nose-Blind Women (1930s-1940s)

During a roughly fifteen year period Lifebuoy Soap created about 200 different advertisement comic book encounters with B.O. Here are the best. ...
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Who was Janet? Time Travel With A Massachusetts Woman (1961-1975)

Who was Janet? Time Travel With A Massachusetts Woman (1961-1975)

Who is she, and who is the photographer? A sibling, neighbor or lover? Possibly even a self-timer? Each snapshot becomes another chunk of our invented narrative of Janet." ...
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Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

In 1942 Leslie Jones, a Staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler took pictures of locals supporting the fight by collecting scrap metal, cloth, cooking fat, rubber and anything else that could help. ...
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The Batchelors Foods ‘Soup-Opera’ ads from the 1950s

The Batchelors Foods ‘Soup-Opera’ ads from the 1950s

The Batchelors Foods adverts of the 1950s put across the idea that their canned products, although quick to prepare for the modern housewife, were actually the height of sophisticated dining. The premise seemed to be that a simple tin of peas meant minimal cooking which of course gave the housewife more time to look glamorous for her husband when he returned from work. ...
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Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Anti-Semitism "is nothing but a wrench to unscrew, bit by bit, the whole machinery of our civilization" ...
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‘Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight’ – Glorious Pictures of the Skegness Butlin’s

‘Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight’ – Glorious Pictures of the Skegness Butlin’s

The first ever Billy Butlin holiday camp was opened at Skegness in 1936 - it still exists today. ...
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Photographs of an Austere and Dour Manchester from 1963

Photographs of an Austere and Dour Manchester from 1963

Manchester, England in 1963 - Coronation Street first aired in 1960; a season ticket to see Manchester United cost £8.50; in 1961, the City of Manchester’s population was 662,000 ...
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Stacking Vintage Kodachrome Slides to Create Strange Stories

Stacking Vintage Kodachrome Slides to Create Strange Stories

Artist Ian Trask delved into a collection of thousands of 35mm slide photographs to juxtapose the found imagery into surreal scenes. ...
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Technicians at the Government of Alberta Dairy and Food  Canada Laboratory (1970)

Technicians at the Government of Alberta Dairy and Food Canada Laboratory (1970)

A great collection of color portraits of staff at a Canadian lab in 1970 ...
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Yarnvertising: DIY Fashion Adverts of the 1970s

Yarnvertising: DIY Fashion Adverts of the 1970s

People don't appreciate these days the level of DIY fashion in the 1960s and 1970s.  Women back then knew how to sew and magically make stuff out of balls of yarn - it was almost a required skill. Then, seemingly overnight, it became a lost art... ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘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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    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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