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Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Russia from 1890 to 1907. The ...
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The Mars Gazette: An Early 20th Century Drug Dealer’s Journeys In Space

The Mars Gazette: An Early 20th Century Drug Dealer’s Journeys In Space

  The Mars Gazette is a booklet describing the journey of pitchman C. B. Hustler ...
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Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

In 1938, Rupprecht’s illustrations appeared in Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), an antisemitic book for German children, copies of which made their way into the classroom. ...
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The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

  New York City's grid system is not an exact science. Streets are not equally ...
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Bikinis on Record: 35 Album Cover Beach Girls of the 1960s-1980s

Bikinis on Record: 35 Album Cover Beach Girls of the 1960s-1980s

What better method to sell records than to put a young surfer girl on the ...
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Fantastic Old Japanese Posters Of Political Campaigns

Fantastic Old Japanese Posters Of Political Campaigns

These Japanese political posters from the mid and late 20th Century are fabulous. They skewer ...
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The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

  I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published ...
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When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

The United States. Office of War Information took photographs of the movements and fighting, including these pictures of the natives risking life and limb to aid the Allied troops. ...
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Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books

Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books

Look through about any school science textbook today and they are absolutely brimming with glossy ...
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The Artist Who Unlocked King Tutankhamun’s Tomb And Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

The Artist Who Unlocked King Tutankhamun’s Tomb And Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

In the 1920s artist Douglas MacPherson shone a light into the darkness. He unlocked King Tutankhamun's ...
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Legwarmers & Lycra Leotards: Totally Rad Aerobics Fashions of the 80s

Legwarmers & Lycra Leotards: Totally Rad Aerobics Fashions of the 80s

When the fitness craze swept the western world, millions upon millions of Baby Boomers took ...
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LA’s Mister Freedom And Christophe Loiron’s Scripted Styles

LA’s Mister Freedom And Christophe Loiron’s Scripted Styles

  NAME: Christophe Loiron RESIDES: Los Angeles OCCUPATION: Mister Freedom Schooled in Zaire, Frenchman Christophe ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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