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Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44

Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44

Some of the earliest views of the city and some of the most beautifully preserved calotype cityscapes from the period ...
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Men Behaving Badly on Saucy Vintage Postcards

Men Behaving Badly on Saucy Vintage Postcards

For some reason, in the early decades of the 20th century it was a "thing" to send sleazy cartoon postcards while on vacation.   Looking through postcards from the 1930s-1950s, you'll find not as many photographs of tourist locations as you will bawdy cartoons. ...
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Photos Of Johnny Cash And June Carter At Folsom Prison

Photos Of Johnny Cash And June Carter At Folsom Prison

I shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry ...
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Child Portrait Day at the South Bay Camera Club in Redondo Beach, California (1950s)

Child Portrait Day at the South Bay Camera Club in Redondo Beach, California (1950s)

'Photographs turn the present into past, make contingency into destiny. Whatever their degree of “realism,” all photographs embody a “romantic” relation to reality' - Susan Sontag ...
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In 1978 Kate Bush Sold Seiko Watches in Japan

In 1978 Kate Bush Sold Seiko Watches in Japan

Japan is where Western celebrities go to make ads no one in their home market will see ...
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15 Vintage Found Photographs of Creepy Dolls

15 Vintage Found Photographs of Creepy Dolls

'Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions' - Stephen King, Desperation ...
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Rare 1967 Photos of a 20-Year-Old David Bowie in Hats, Mime Makeup, and Wooly Sweaters Before the Release of His Self-Titled Debut Album

Rare 1967 Photos of a 20-Year-Old David Bowie in Hats, Mime Makeup, and Wooly Sweaters Before the Release of His Self-Titled Debut Album

“We didn’t realize that he’d been trying to be successful for 10 years.” - Jarvis Cocker on David Bowie ...
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The 50th Anniversary of the Movie ‘Performance’

The 50th Anniversary of the Movie ‘Performance’

"I'll tell you this: the only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Right? Am I right? You with me?" - Turner ...
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Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs In the 1980s – Before the Big Money Rolled In

Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs In the 1980s – Before the Big Money Rolled In

"Our country's not an island any more. This is the decade in which London will become Europe's capital, having cleared away the out-dated. We've got mile after mile or acre after acre of land for our future prosperity. No other city in the world has got, right at its centre, such an opportunity for profitable progress" - Harold Shand, The Long Good Friday (1981) ...
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Billy Apple’s Appropriation And David Hockney’s Lady Clairol Hair

Billy Apple’s Appropriation And David Hockney’s Lady Clairol Hair

"I didn't want to spend 10 years learning how to mould a peeled banana. There were people around who were fantastic at doing it ... It has always been like that: the idea is paramount" - Billy Apple ...
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“Don’t Let Them Call You Skinny!” – Vintage Weight Gain Advertising for Women

“Don’t Let Them Call You Skinny!” – Vintage Weight Gain Advertising for Women

Perusing through women's interest magazines from the 1950s-1970s, you will often find advertisements for women to put weight on.  ...
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The Shining Behind The Scenes: Watch Jack Nicholson Shocking Himself Into Character

The Shining Behind The Scenes: Watch Jack Nicholson Shocking Himself Into Character

    In 1980 movie goers got to see The Shining, Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson's gripping ...
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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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