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Gender Swapping in Early Souvenir Arcade Photos

Gender Swapping in Early Souvenir Arcade Photos

  Gender swapping was a theme in photo arcade photos. "You could go into a ...
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20 Brilliant 1950s Horror Comic Title Panels

20 Brilliant 1950s Horror Comic Title Panels

“Alas – It is not true that dead men tell no tales" ...
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Meat in a Can: SPAM and Other Potted Meat Ads from the 1960s

Meat in a Can: SPAM and Other Potted Meat Ads from the 1960s

Potted meat has gotten a bad rap over the years.  Maybe it's because of its ...
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Awkward Mid-Century Modelling Poses For Bored Husbands And Frustrated Wives

Awkward Mid-Century Modelling Poses For Bored Husbands And Frustrated Wives

  To turn shoppers on to their cameras, Newcastle-based photography shops Turners hired models to ...
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Behind-the-Scenes Pictures of the 1959 Epic Ben-Hur

Behind-the-Scenes Pictures of the 1959 Epic Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur the 1959 American epic historical drama film, directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton ...
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Lurid Italian Lobbycards For ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’

Lurid Italian Lobbycards For ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’

These Italian lobby cards from 1963 for the movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ...
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Albert Einstein’s Letter to Gandhi: The Eternal Law of Love

Albert Einstein’s Letter to Gandhi: The Eternal Law of Love

“Professor Einstein is not a mere mathematical mind. He is a living being, sympathetic with all human advance… and he hates race prejudice because as a Jew he knows what it is.” - W.E.B. Du Bois ...
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace was Hilarious! Secretaries in Wildly Sexist Mid-Century Comics

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace was Hilarious! Secretaries in Wildly Sexist Mid-Century Comics

Was spanking your secretary really a thing back then?  ...
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Edward Bell’s Unusual Acquaintance With David Bowie

Edward Bell’s Unusual Acquaintance With David Bowie

“‘David’ “‘David who?… Oh, that David.'” ...
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“I Married a Centerfold” and Other Forgotten Made-For-TV-Movies from the 1970s-1980s

“I Married a Centerfold” and Other Forgotten Made-For-TV-Movies from the 1970s-1980s

Back in the days before Netflix, a TV movie premier was a pretty big deal.  ...
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Fruit Jamz! Album Covers Featuring Fruit (1950s-1980s)

Fruit Jamz! Album Covers Featuring Fruit (1950s-1980s)

Andy Warhol's banana, which adorned the 1967 Velvet Underground & Nico record, is likely the ...
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Watching A B-25 Mitchell Bomber Hit The Empire State Building (1945)

Watching A B-25 Mitchell Bomber Hit The Empire State Building (1945)

"It was a very small universe at that point. You're stuck there in an island, with fire all around us" ...
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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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