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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...
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Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)

Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)

Inside was a list of nine “guidelines” that might allow you to get out of the city alive, and with your personal property intact. ...
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Photographs of The Lower East Side During the 1970s

Photographs of The Lower East Side During the 1970s

New York City in the 1970s was tough but if you took the trouble to look for them, signs of joy were everywhere ...
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When Joe Strummer Ran The Paris Marathon After 10 Pints Of Beer

When Joe Strummer Ran The Paris Marathon After 10 Pints Of Beer

"I didn’t fuckin’ train. Not once. Just turned up and did it" - Joe Stummer ...
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Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Pictures taken on a walk up Charing Cross Road from Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus ...
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Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)

Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)

“I work in the belief – or dare – that I can continue to reinvent myself and remain a perennial beginner" - Rose Finn-Kelcey ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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Duelling With Wax Bullets in New York (1909)

Duelling With Wax Bullets in New York (1909)

In 1909 wax bullets were used in duals at the New York Athletic Club and Carnegie Hall ...
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Looking For Orson Welles’ Noses

Looking For Orson Welles’ Noses

“When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends” – Orson Welles ...
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, Missouri (1968)

Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, Missouri (1968)

"Entering Wonderland, the visitor encounters a confusion of sounds – juke boxes, shots from the rifle range, bells ringing on myriad machines. The whole atmosphere is one of carnival" ...
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25 Wild & Wonderful Disco Records from Around the World

25 Wild & Wonderful Disco Records from Around the World

Disco always had a tendency toward the audacious and get "crazier than a fish with tits" ...
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Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho

Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho

Where Noel Coward bought smart socks and Gertrude Lawrence smart stockings at bargain prices in their early days... ...
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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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