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27 Gorgeous Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroids

27 Gorgeous Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroids

"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality" — Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time ...
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An Evening Stroll Around London’s West-End in November 1955

An Evening Stroll Around London’s West-End in November 1955

On the evening of 5th November Allan Hailstone went on a stroll around a brightly lit West End and here are some of his pictures he took that night… ...
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Noël Coward Visits an Adelaide Koala Farm in 1940

Noël Coward Visits an Adelaide Koala Farm in 1940

Nobody in England has the faintest idea what the Australians are like, and when I do get back I am going to make it my business to tell them. They are simple and direct and friendly, and their feeling about England is so deep and touching... this really is being a wonderful experience. ...
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Protect And Survive: How To Survive Nuclear Armageddon (1980)

Protect And Survive: How To Survive Nuclear Armageddon (1980)

This booklet issued by the British Government in 1980 tells you how to make your home and your family as safe as possible under nuclear attack ...
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Marvellous Photographs of Manhattan in 1936

Marvellous Photographs of Manhattan in 1936

The great big city's a wondrous toy just made for a girl and boy, We'll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy... (Lorenz Hart) ...
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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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    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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    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    Naming a song after a woman has, over the years, become the biggest music cliché ever; however, there’s been a ton of great ones, and is thereby prime fodder for music lists. So, here's the rules: (1) The song has to have a female's name in the title, but not ...
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