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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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“Taste Me!” – Carcinogenic Comics: Doral Cigarette Ads For Kids

“Taste Me!” – Carcinogenic Comics: Doral Cigarette Ads For Kids

The Doral tobacco company utilized the same basic advertising strategy as Twinkies: humorous and colorful full-page comic book ads ...
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“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s How you Grow.” – Pictures of Mary Tyler Moore

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s How you Grow.” – Pictures of Mary Tyler Moore

"I'm an experienced woman. I've been around... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby." ...
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27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

“’Tis all in vain your simpering looks, You never can incline, With all your bustles, stays and curls, To find a Valentine.” ...
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Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

"I am an architect by training, a painter by inclination, and a photographer by necessity" - Edwin Smith ...
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“I’ve Gotta Horse” – the Life of the Glorious Prince Monolulu

“I’ve Gotta Horse” – the Life of the Glorious Prince Monolulu

Monolulu usually wore an ostentatious head-dress of ostrich feathers, a multi-coloured cloak and a huge scarf wrapped around his waist. Of course anybody who was considered remotely amusing in those days had to have a catch-phrase and Monolulu’s, heard by everyone at Petticoat Lane and race-courses around the country, was: “I Gotta Horse, I Gotta Horse’. ...
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Be My Valentine: Vintage Snapshots Of Love On The Cards

Be My Valentine: Vintage Snapshots Of Love On The Cards

‘Really the post is about the heart motif in photos as much as it is about Valentine’s Day,’ writes Robert E. Jackson. The message on these pictures says “I love you”. That’s what hearts mean, don’t they. They say ‘my heart is yours’, and because we feel with our hearts, giving them to another is profound and true. Receiving a heart motif must be good news for any one of us. But you never know. Giving your heart is a gamble. ...
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The TWA Lounge at JFK – Nick DeWolf’s Photographs of a 1960s Design Great

The TWA Lounge at JFK – Nick DeWolf’s Photographs of a 1960s Design Great

"It was just me. Period. No mission. No credentials. Just a passport" - Nick DeWolf ...
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Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Tommy Titop is, to quote Stephen Ellcock, a ‘little thug who drowns kittens, pesters puppies and decimates the lesser creation; he gets his comeuppance in a series of dreams in which the roles of tormentor and tormented are reversed as in The World Upside Down.’ Tommy is the star or The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop, Published by Myra & Son, London, 1893. ...
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Linda McCartney, and her Photographs of Paul, The Beatles and Other Artists

Linda McCartney, and her Photographs of Paul, The Beatles and Other Artists

These pictures are mostly from 'Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs', a rich, evocative low-key look at the human side of the celebrities we are set up revere – to watch but not always to see. ...
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Photos of Southington, Connecticut in 1942 by Charles Fenno Jacobs

Photos of Southington, Connecticut in 1942 by Charles Fenno Jacobs

In May 1942, during World War 2, the town of Southington in Connecticut was selected by the US War Department to be featured in a defence pamphlet called 'Southington, CT—Microcosm of America'. Thousands of copies were dropped from military airplanes over Europe during the Nazi German Occupation. ...
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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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