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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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A Gay Wedding In Philadelphia 1957

A Gay Wedding In Philadelphia 1957

Found photos of a gay wedding in the USA decades before it was legal ...
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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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