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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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Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

William McCalla, a botanist and teacher, made over 1,000 hand-coloured lantern slides of Albertan flowers ...
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Tormented And Alone: The Neurotic Dreams of the Romance Comics Women

Tormented And Alone: The Neurotic Dreams of the Romance Comics Women

In comic after comic, with rarely an exception, you have the requisite scene of the beautiful female lying in bed pining desperately over some clueless oaf. ...
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Doreen Spooner the First ‘Camera Girl’ on ‘Testosterone Alley’

Doreen Spooner the First ‘Camera Girl’ on ‘Testosterone Alley’

Probably the first female photographer to have a staff job for a popular British newspaper, her Daily Mirror byline was 'By Camera Girl Doreen Spooner'. She hated it. ...
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A Dozen ‘Mundane’ Cornwall Postcards Found in a Penzance Hardware Shop

A Dozen ‘Mundane’ Cornwall Postcards Found in a Penzance Hardware Shop

These faded old postcards were for sale ten for a pound. I think they'd been there for thirty years or so... ...
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Math Tracks: 11 More Offbeat Songs About Numbers

Math Tracks: 11 More Offbeat Songs About Numbers

We can all name our share of songs with numbers in their title: “8 Days a Week” by The Beatles, “9 to 5” by Dolly Parton, “96 Tears” by ? and the Mysterians, “19” by Paul Hardcastle, “In the Year 2525” by Zager and Evans… the list goes on and on, but we'll try to avoid the obvious with this list ...
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12 Vintage TV Publicity Photos That Must Be Seen

12 Vintage TV Publicity Photos That Must Be Seen

Enjoy a handful of great publicity photographs from the 1960s – 1980s. Some are odd, some awesome – all are very, very interesting! ...
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Photographer Reunites People He First Spotted On The Streets 40 Years Ago

Photographer Reunites People He First Spotted On The Streets 40 Years Ago

Chris Porsz took photos of people in his hometown of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the late 1970s and 80s. Decades later he set out to find them with incredible results ...
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Adolf Hoffmeister’s Fantastic Illustrations for Around The World In Eighty Days

Adolf Hoffmeister’s Fantastic Illustrations for Around The World In Eighty Days

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real” - Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days ...
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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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