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41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

There are more than 4,000 runic inscriptions in Sweden, dated from the 3d century up to modern time. ...
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“A Playground for Men’s Hands” – Vintage Adverts: The Look of Love

“A Playground for Men’s Hands” – Vintage Adverts: The Look of Love

A woman on the left, a guy on the right, both giving each other "the look of love" - it's the perfect formula, and one that has been used countless times in advertising. ...
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‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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An Engineer’s Intriguing Kodachrome Photos Of Sweden in the 1940s

An Engineer’s Intriguing Kodachrome Photos Of Sweden in the 1940s

Fredrik Daniel Bruno (1882–1971) took pictures of Sweden during the war. His pictures evoke feelings of espionage and a hidden agenda ...
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Photos from a Trip to New York in August 1967

Photos from a Trip to New York in August 1967

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. – John Steinbeck ...
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To Home Torture Hell On A Luggage Cart: A Look At Ladies Home Journal 1968

To Home Torture Hell On A Luggage Cart: A Look At Ladies Home Journal 1968

WHAT exactly were women reading  fifty years ago? Time to find out. Take a walk with Flashbak through the November 1968 issue of Ladies Home Journal. ...
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The First Appearance of ‘The F-Word’ In An English Book

The First Appearance of ‘The F-Word’ In An English Book

"It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and without enjoying swearing" - Stephen Fry ...
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The Atomic Sunrise Festival: Dancing To David Bowie At The Birth of Glam Rock – 1970

The Atomic Sunrise Festival: Dancing To David Bowie At The Birth of Glam Rock – 1970

Photographs of those who can say 'I was there' when David Bowie and The Hype gave birth to Glam Rock ...
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Terrors Rehashed: Repeated Imagery in Vintage Horror Art

Terrors Rehashed: Repeated Imagery in Vintage Horror Art

There's no denying there are certain tropes, certain artful conceptions, in horror genre illustration.  Horror themes are swiped and reused from one artist to another... ...
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Art Frahm : Fallen Knickers, Women And Celery (1950s)

Art Frahm : Fallen Knickers, Women And Celery (1950s)

Art Frahm  (1907–1981) was an American artist best known for his drawing of 1950s pin-ups. ...
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Survivors of The Sinai Express : European Exiles In Egypt (1944)

Survivors of The Sinai Express : European Exiles In Egypt (1944)

Photographs of Croats who fled the Germans for the heat and dust of Egypt ...
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Fabulous Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (Nuremberg 1540)

Fabulous Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (Nuremberg 1540)

Illustrations of full-length masked and elaborate costumed figures from a riotous German parade ...
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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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