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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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Extraordinary Photographs of a Captured WW1 U-Boat Submarine (1918)

Extraordinary Photographs of a Captured WW1 U-Boat Submarine (1918)

Ever wanted to see inside a WW1 German U-Boat? Well now you can. These photographs, taken in 1918, show the interiors of a UB 110 submarine just prior to being scrapped. ...
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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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