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30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies

30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies

What is it about old photographs of ventriloquist dummies that make them a little off-putting, and often downright scary? ...
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Marvin Rand’s Gorgeous Photos of California Modern

Marvin Rand’s Gorgeous Photos of California Modern

“Although he operated in the shadow of his more famous rival, the noted architectural photographer ...
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I Say! What a Bounder – The Life of Terry-Thomas

I Say! What a Bounder – The Life of Terry-Thomas

The gap-toothed comedian encapsulated the idea of the caddish English rotter. ...
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The Surrealist Sci-Fi Cover Art of Richard M. Powers

The Surrealist Sci-Fi Cover Art of Richard M. Powers

After a few decades of lurid pulp covers featuring half-naked space damsels in distress, grotesque, rubbery aliens, and square-jawed heroic spacemen, sci-fi publishing in the late 50s and 60s opened up to far stranger visions on the covers of their mass-market paperbacks. ...
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Vivienne Westwood And Other Stars of 1973’s Landmark ‘London Belles’ Feature

Vivienne Westwood And Other Stars of 1973’s Landmark ‘London Belles’ Feature

"Although high fashion may be a thing of the past, what has replaced it is individuality and freedom to express. Women like these now make up their own minds about what they are and what they wear. Perhaps the rest of us should get the message and start being living fashion." - West One, December 7, 1973 ...
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The Last of Empire: Brooke Bond Picture Cards of Famous People 1869-1969

The Last of Empire: Brooke Bond Picture Cards of Famous People 1869-1969

Brooke Bond's tea cards were a gimmick that offered young children an traditional sense of British history and identity--one greatly shaped by Empire--while instilling a favourable liking for their aromatic beverage--if only to obtain the full set of cards. ...
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Photos of Marc Bolan in His Last Years with Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, The Damned, Elton John, and Rod Stewart

Photos of Marc Bolan in His Last Years with Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, The Damned, Elton John, and Rod Stewart

The death of Marc Bolan almost 41 years ago robbed the world of a mythic mercurial superstar—or at least that’s what seemed to be on the horizon again for the 29-year old poet and glam pioneer when a car crash took is life in 1977. ...
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Michael Pederson’s Miniature World Of The Unexpected

Michael Pederson’s Miniature World Of The Unexpected

Artist uses skill and humour to enlarge small, everyday things ...
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Jesus in Four Colors: Spire Christian Comics from the 1970s

Jesus in Four Colors: Spire Christian Comics from the 1970s

The idea of the Rapture had been floating around various Christian denominations for decades - but Christian comics brought it to the masses. ...
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Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

The home you never wanted for all eternity ...
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A Look Through 1980s “Britain’s Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine”

A Look Through 1980s “Britain’s Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine”

"Grandad spends his time reliving his days in the RAF with Mission Impossible, Alien and Omega Race."  Meanwhile, "Dad escapes to another world with Cosmic Jailbreak..." ...
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Convict Cowboys – A Look at Prison Rodeos

Convict Cowboys – A Look at Prison Rodeos

I came across this old program from October 1960 for a Texas Prison Rodeo…  Prison Rodeo?  Was this a thing?  As it turns out, yes – in fact, they were quite popular in the U.S., and some continue to this day. ...
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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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