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Another Time, Another Place – Photos of Battersea in the 1950s

Another Time, Another Place – Photos of Battersea in the 1950s

  Photos are courtesy of John Wexler and many more of these fascinating photos can ...
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Smells Like the 70s: Vintage Deodorant Advertising

Smells Like the 70s: Vintage Deodorant Advertising

Women's deodorant and antiperspirant ads came in three varieties: (1) a demonstration of how well ...
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Sig Waller’s Kitsch Gothic Invades 1950s Suburbia

Sig Waller’s Kitsch Gothic Invades 1950s Suburbia

  Sig Waller  (“S.I.G.” - “Spectrum is Green” from Captain Scarlett and the Mysterions) injects smultzy, kitsch visions ...
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Sylvia Plath: A Life In Photographs, Drawings, Self-Portraits And Pictures

Sylvia Plath: A Life In Photographs, Drawings, Self-Portraits And Pictures

A photographic history of Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) at the ...
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Farrah Everywhere: The Countless Farrah Fawcett Magazine Covers of 1976 to 1980

Farrah Everywhere: The Countless Farrah Fawcett Magazine Covers of 1976 to 1980

Farrah Fawcett appeared in pop culture here and there in the early seventies  - an ...
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Lewis Carroll’s Original Illustrations For Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1864)

Lewis Carroll’s Original Illustrations For Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1864)

  In 1864 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) completed his hand-written book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The story ...
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Who’s Steely Dan and What’s a Supertramp? Band Names Demystified

Who’s Steely Dan and What’s a Supertramp? Band Names Demystified

I'm always curious about where band names originated.  Upon research, usually it's something very boring ...
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Sharks: The Return of The Sharkmobile

Sharks: The Return of The Sharkmobile

In 2016, singer-songwriter Steve “Snips” Parsons was in contact; the reunion of early 70s British rock ...
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Anthony Burgess: My Best 99 Novels 1939-1984 And Top 5 Dystopian Books

Anthony Burgess: My Best 99 Novels 1939-1984 And Top 5 Dystopian Books

  Anthony Burgess, polymath, slang dictionary compiler, creator of other world's and author of A Clockwork Orange, ...
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A Curious Collection of June Brides: Vintage Marriage Snapshots

A Curious Collection of June Brides: Vintage Marriage Snapshots

  The June Brides know the rhyme: "Marry in the month of May, and you'll ...
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Russian Illustrations For Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

Russian Illustrations For Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

In 1976, Mikhail Belomlinsky (born St Petersburg 1934), a graduate of the revered St. Petersburg ...
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Ansel Adams’ Photos of Japanese-American Prisoners of War At Manzanar Internment Camp

Ansel Adams’ Photos of Japanese-American Prisoners of War At Manzanar Internment Camp

Actor George Takei recalled his time at an Arkansas internment camp in World War 2. He along ...
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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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