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David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." ...
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Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Often seen handling weaponry, wooden objects and sticks or gazing into the distance, the male models are often in pairs... ...
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A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

The post-war test pilot in the 1950s had an incredibly high death rate.  Literally a quarter of them died.  Wolfe’s novel describes the grisly details of life as a test pilot, where it seemed there was a funeral to attend every week. ...
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Java Nostalgia: Remembrances Before the ‘Coffee Culture’ Boom

Java Nostalgia: Remembrances Before the ‘Coffee Culture’ Boom

It’s early morning 1982 and you’re visiting your neighbors, and they offer you a cup of coffee.  You know exactly what you’re going to get – it’s going to be a watery mug of Maxwell House or Folgers. End of story. ...
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Children in ‘The Troubles’: Northern Ireland 1969-1981

Children in ‘The Troubles’: Northern Ireland 1969-1981

For many, Northern Ireland during 'the Troubles' was a place synonymous with murder, bombs, hit-squads, vicious bastards, shootings, victims of liberal bigots, prison and intimidation. ...
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30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns

30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns

Wherever there’s a clown, you’ll find a child crying.  What possesses adults to think children love clowns? ...
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Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the Peanuts Gang Sell Ford Falcons in the Early 60s

Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the Peanuts Gang Sell Ford Falcons in the Early 60s

A Charlie Brown Christmas was not Charlie Brown and company’s first appearance on television. Before they piously extolled the simple virtues of Christmas, the gang sold cars for Ford. ...
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TV on the Brink: The Disastrous Mid-Season of 1979

TV on the Brink: The Disastrous Mid-Season of 1979

From January through May of 1979, all three major networks (NBC, CBS, ABC) premiered an unprecedented 36 new series.  The reason?  NBC, a network that was in an absolute free-fall, had hired Fred Silverman. ...
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Historic Photos of Richard Nixon During his Last Two Days in Office

Historic Photos of Richard Nixon During his Last Two Days in Office

“Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.” - Gerald Ford ...
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Pictures of a Run-down Bristol in the 1970s

Pictures of a Run-down Bristol in the 1970s

In the post-war years, far more destruction was done, far more unforgivably, to the fabric of cities, such as Bristol, by their own officials than was ever inflicted by the Luftwaffe. ...
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The Fantastic and Troubled History of the Video Phone

The Fantastic and Troubled History of the Video Phone

Being able to see the person on a call is something we now take totally for granted.  However, once upon a time, the idea of a “video phone” was pure science fiction. ...
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Classic Celebrity Beach Photos: Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, The Rolling Stones & More

Classic Celebrity Beach Photos: Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, The Rolling Stones & More

Celebrity beach scenes have taken many forms over the years, from the wickedly salacious to the silly to the tawdry to the tabloid. ...
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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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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