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The Cocoa Song from Moon Over The Alley

The Cocoa Song from Moon Over The Alley

"In a short while you'll see that the moon won't be so bright as it is it. Clouds will cover it... it'll get broken up there. I hope it won't break us" - Sybil, Moon Over The Alley ...
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This Isn’t Happiness: Mid-Century Romance Comic Books Updated Into Tales Of Shallow Lives And Empty Sex

This Isn’t Happiness: Mid-Century Romance Comic Books Updated Into Tales Of Shallow Lives And Empty Sex

"Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality" - Charles Bukowski ...
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8 Reasons Why the U.S. News Media is a Rolling Dumpster Fire (and Didn’t Used to Be)

8 Reasons Why the U.S. News Media is a Rolling Dumpster Fire (and Didn’t Used to Be)

"News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising" - Lord Northcliff ...
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Alexander Grahm Bell’s Space-Age Tetrahedral Kites

Alexander Grahm Bell’s Space-Age Tetrahedral Kites

“It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.” - Alexander Graham Bell ...
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Chorus Line Dancers and Can-Can Girls from the 1920s-1960s

Chorus Line Dancers and Can-Can Girls from the 1920s-1960s

In the mid-1800s, the music halls of Paris suddenly were presented with high-kicking, cartwheeling ladies ...
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Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to" - Dorothy Parker ...
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Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

"My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going" — Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
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The Bicentennial Madness of July 1976

The Bicentennial Madness of July 1976

  Let's face it, in the 1970s patriotism in the U.S. wasn't what it was in ...
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A Night At The Garden: Incredible Footage Of The American Nazi Rally In New York – February 20 1939

A Night At The Garden: Incredible Footage Of The American Nazi Rally In New York – February 20 1939

“The first thing that struck me was that an event like this could happen in the heart of New York City" - Marshall Curry, director of A Night At The Garden ...
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Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson and the Fall of British Leyland

Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson and the Fall of British Leyland

The Morris Marina suffered from an affliction common to far too many British cars of that era – total contempt for the customer. ...
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Baroque Wigs In Paper Topped With Modern Objects Of Desire

Baroque Wigs In Paper Topped With Modern Objects Of Desire

  Russian artist Asya Kozina updates those towering powered wigs ( perukes) popular with the nobs ...
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30 Outrageous 2-Page Pulp Art from Mid-Century Men’s Magazines

30 Outrageous 2-Page Pulp Art from Mid-Century Men’s Magazines

"Buddy leaned over the bar slobbering and burping into the night."  ...
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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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