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A Peruse Through ‘American Hairdresser Salon Owner’ (June 1982)

A Peruse Through ‘American Hairdresser Salon Owner’ (June 1982)

From the pages of American Hairdresser Salon Owner (June 1982) comes some rad hairstyles that are sure to impress.... if you're the type that happens to be impressed by bad perms and cocaine inspired cuts. ...
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The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

A great set of Kodachrome slides from when Americans in American-made cars explored the country ...
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Captivating Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 1

Captivating Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 1

"The most thrilling part of the coloring process is when suddenly the person looks back at you as if he’s alive" - Olga Shirnina ...
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A Look Around Paris Jewelers, Toledo, Ohio In The 1950s

A Look Around Paris Jewelers, Toledo, Ohio In The 1950s

A lovely collection of Kodachrome snapshots from a local city store ...
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Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

“I was an amateur, I am an amateur, and I intend to stay an amateur. To me, an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.” ...
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The Sound of Music Migrations In Paris And London (1962-1989)

The Sound of Music Migrations In Paris And London (1962-1989)

These images of protest and partying in Paris and London show how several generations of immigrants from two former colonial powers, seized music to make their rights equal, claim their place in the public space and help transform both the urban economic and cultural aspects of both countries. ...
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‘The Air is Yours…Use It!’ – Holiday Magazine Travel Adverts from April 1950

‘The Air is Yours…Use It!’ – Holiday Magazine Travel Adverts from April 1950

I pulled these travel advertisements from an April 1950 issue of Holiday magazine. Back then, a cross country vacation could be insanely expensive – a significant expense in a time before credit cards and budget airfare. But that was part of the appeal, wasn’t it? A trip from Georgia to New Mexico sounds like nothing today; but in 1950, that was an exotic adventure... ...
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1960s Hawaii In Kodachrome

1960s Hawaii In Kodachrome

'Far down to the right a thin line of coconut palms marked the new Western edge of America, a lonely-looking wall of jagged black lava cliffs looking out on the white-capped Pacific' - Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono ...
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How to Make Friends by Telephone: A Fanatical Mid-Century Guide

How to Make Friends by Telephone: A Fanatical Mid-Century Guide

It’s amazing to think that, not so long ago, the telephone was a novel enough technology that books were published to help you master this strange new method of communication. ...
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Hunter S. Thompson’s 10 Best Albums of the 1960s

Hunter S. Thompson’s 10 Best Albums of the 1960s

"I resent your assumption that Music is Not My Bag because I’ve been arguing for the past few years that music is the New Literature, that Dylan is the 1960s’ answer to Hemingway, and that the main voice of the '70s will be on records & videotape instead of books" - Hunter S. Thompson to Rolling Stone editor John Lombardo (1970) ...
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Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

"I’d just bought a new car. It was a Ford Consul which I’d parked right behind us. So I grabbed her arm and I said, ‘Come with me,’ and she did! And she said, 'Oh, this is fun, I’ve been kidnapped!'" ...
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1950s Hawaii In Kodachrome

1950s Hawaii In Kodachrome

"Dreams come true In blue Hawaii / And mine could all come true / This magic night of nights with you" - Blue Hawaii, Elvis Presley ...
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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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