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Shirtwaist Fashion, The ‘Gibson Girl’ and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster of 1911

Shirtwaist Fashion, The ‘Gibson Girl’ and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster of 1911

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 workers, mostly immigrant women and girls trapped by fire, a collapsed fire escape, and locked doors, in a Greenwich Village garment factory. It marks a pivotal moment in 20th century history, at the nexus of concerns over labor exploitation, workplace safety, conditions of immigrant life, corruption in New York politics, and women’s emergence into the workforce. ...
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Gorgeous, Color Photographs of Paris Between The Great War And La Belle Époque

Gorgeous, Color Photographs of Paris Between The Great War And La Belle Époque

These gorgeous color photographs of Paris in 1914, at the end of the La Belle Époque, were made using Autochrome Lumière technology, a technique developed in 1903 by the Lumière brothers. ...
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Rob Bremner’s stunning photographs of Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s

Rob Bremner’s stunning photographs of Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s

Most of Rob's Liverpool photographs were taken around the Everton and Vauxhall areas of the city. The area housed some of Liverpool's oldest communities, the same families living there for generations. ...
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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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    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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