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Take an 1890 Photochrom Tour of Rome

Take an 1890 Photochrom Tour of Rome

“Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” – George Eliot ...
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The Lost Kodachrome Family Photos (1976-1981)

The Lost Kodachrome Family Photos (1976-1981)

A set of photos bought at a car boot sale ...
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Rumpsteak Pudding with Added Lark – Six Fascinating Historic Menus

Rumpsteak Pudding with Added Lark – Six Fascinating Historic Menus

Fascinating menus from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub to the Top of the Tower restaurant on top of the Post Office Tower... ...
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Women At The British Nylon Spinners Factory (1964)

Women At The British Nylon Spinners Factory (1964)

"It takes a special eye to make arduous industrial processes and perilous manual labour seem sexy, epic and mysterious" - Tim Teeman on Maurice Broomfield ...
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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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    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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