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The Queenslander: Some Illustrated Covers

The Queenslander: Some Illustrated Covers

Published between 1866 and 1939, The Queenslander was the weekly summary of the Brisbane Courier ...
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Bad As Hell Girls In 1950s South Philadelphia

Bad As Hell Girls In 1950s South Philadelphia

We don't know the identities of the two girls cooling their heels in these 1950s ...
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A Creepy 1959 Guide to Girl Watching

A Creepy 1959 Guide to Girl Watching

Are you a perverted stalker who likes to take pictures of your unsuspecting victims? If so, ...
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The Krystal Counter Code: A 1954 Fast Food Server Guide

The Krystal Counter Code: A 1954 Fast Food Server Guide

  In 1954, Krystal Company presented a breezy educational film detailing how staff at its ...
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How To Make A Peep Show And Other Ways To Dress Shop Windows (1899)

How To Make A Peep Show And Other Ways To Dress Shop Windows (1899)

Illustrations from Nearly Three Hundred Ways To Dress Shop Windows by James Marriot, published in ...
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Music on the Go! Advertising the Boom Box and the Miracle of Portable Stereos

Music on the Go! Advertising the Boom Box and the Miracle of Portable Stereos

Records were great - God knows I've extolled their virtues on this site aplenty.  However, ...
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Roller-Disco Jackets & Polyester Slacks: The 1980 Montgomery Ward Catalog

Roller-Disco Jackets & Polyester Slacks: The 1980 Montgomery Ward Catalog

I present to you the fashion pages from the 1980 Montgomery Ward Spring/Summer catalog.  Herein ...
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Austerity Measures: Seeing Canary Wharf Through A Kodak Box Brownie

Austerity Measures: Seeing Canary Wharf Through A Kodak Box Brownie

The intriguing project from photographer Bradley Richards is Austerity Measures, a hand-bound and printed collection ...
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Photos of a Cold and Gloomy Blackpool in 1957

Photos of a Cold and Gloomy Blackpool in 1957

Pictures of Blackpool in April 1957 by Allan Hailstone. Allan has an excellent book for ...
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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). ...
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Ernesto García ‘The Chango’ Cabral’s Bawdy And Brilliant Mexican Movie Posters

Ernesto García ‘The Chango’ Cabral’s Bawdy And Brilliant Mexican Movie Posters

Ernesto García 'The Chango' Cabral (18 December 1890 – 8 August 1968) lampooned the good, ...
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Mug Shots of Fresno Transvestites (1963)

Mug Shots of Fresno Transvestites (1963)

What if your mugshot photo is the best portrait any professional photographer ever took of ...
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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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