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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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When Chuck Berry and Little Richard Played Knees Up Mother Brown on David Letterman In London

When Chuck Berry and Little Richard Played Knees Up Mother Brown on David Letterman In London

'If I catch you bending, I'll saw your legs right off / Knees up, knees up - don't get the breeze up - Knees up Mother Brown' ...
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What Does the Sun Ra Smell Like, Norton Records? Answer: The Future!

What Does the Sun Ra Smell Like, Norton Records? Answer: The Future!

  One day I’ll write a post justifying my view that Kicks #6 is the ...
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All the Best People Come to Pontins! Fred Pontin and his Holiday Camps in 1976

All the Best People Come to Pontins! Fred Pontin and his Holiday Camps in 1976

Affordable holidays for ordinary people. ...
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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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