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Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

  Author Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) and Gertrude Stein (February 3, ...
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A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

Let's have a look inside the rooms of 38 U.S. hotels and motels from the late ...
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Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

  Have fun before the bittersweet end of summer, when school, work and the family departing ...
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Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Ralph Ginzburg (editor) and Herb Lubalin's (art director; creator of the gorgeous Avant Garde typeface) Avant Garde magazine ran ...
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Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

  I am a tattoo artist, as such I won my fame, And I’ve certainly ...
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Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

  In his 1995 essay Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco looked at how "fascist" lost its meaning ...
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Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

  In 1633 Chinese printer Hu Zhengyan used the douban technique to produce what is ...
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A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

These postcards take us back to France in the 1890s. Through the wonder of Photochrom coloring, we ...
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Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Pulled from the vast retro-archives of Flashbak, here are a miscellany of vintage images, primarily ...
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Phallic Innuendo A-Go Go : Vintage Images of Suspiciously Phallic Nature

Phallic Innuendo A-Go Go : Vintage Images of Suspiciously Phallic Nature

I've whipped-out a motherload of vintage images containing suspicious phallic connotations, all spread across the face ...
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Soho Italianate: Gordon Moore’s Adverts for Vince Man’s Shop in Ark Magazine 1957

Soho Italianate: Gordon Moore’s Adverts for Vince Man’s Shop in Ark Magazine 1957

This advert for Vince Man’s Shop – the small Soho boutique which sparked the modernisation ...
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Wonderful Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1950s

Wonderful Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1950s

All we know about these photos of London in the 1950s is that they were probably taken ...
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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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