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Meet the Girl of Your Dreams… Just Add Air (Vintage Inflatable Love Doll Advertising)

Meet the Girl of Your Dreams… Just Add Air (Vintage Inflatable Love Doll Advertising)

Thumb through any adult magazine from mid-century through the seventies, and you're bound to land ...
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Physogs: The Print-Out-And-Play Photofit Game For Crime Families (1930)

Physogs: The Print-Out-And-Play Photofit Game For Crime Families (1930)

Who fancies a game of Physogs? It's great. We've got big photos of the cards from ...
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Overdrive Magazine (1972-1973): Voice of the American Trucker

Overdrive Magazine (1972-1973): Voice of the American Trucker

In the 1950s, American kids idolized cowboys - in the 1970s it was truckers.  There ...
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Le Diable et Son Train – The Devil Goes Sharking In Paris (1951)

Le Diable et Son Train – The Devil Goes Sharking In Paris (1951)

  Le Diable et son Train (1951), by Jeanne Effel (12 February 1908, Paris - ...
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Lessons in Class: The 1961 Spiegel Catalog

Lessons in Class: The 1961 Spiegel Catalog

Seventies fashions were funky, eighties fashions were rad, but fashions from the early sixties were straight-up ...
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Stevie Nicks And Abba’s Frida Star In This Women’s Self Defense Manual (1983)

Stevie Nicks And Abba’s Frida Star In This Women’s Self Defense Manual (1983)

In 1983 Stevie Nicks starred in Hands Off!: A Unique New System of Self Defence Against ...
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Anthony Burgess’s Lost Dictionary of Slang (1965)

Anthony Burgess’s Lost Dictionary of Slang (1965)

  Anthony Burgess enjoyed slang so much that in 1965 he accepted a commission to ...
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Who Were These Young Boxers In A Mid-Century Boston Gym?

Who Were These Young Boxers In A Mid-Century Boston Gym?

Leslie Jones (1886-1967) created a fabulous archive of almost 40,000 images from his days as a photojournalist, ...
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Salut Les Copains: Poptastic Playing Cards From 1960s

Salut Les Copains: Poptastic Playing Cards From 1960s

We are indebted to Patricia M. for showing us this fabulous set of playing cards ...
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Nirvana Play ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 18th, 1990): Photos

Nirvana Play ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 18th, 1990): Photos

On April 18th 1990, Nirvana performed at ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  JJ Gonson was there to record ...
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POW Kurt Vonnegut Writes Home From World War II: ‘The RAF Bombed Our Unmarked Train’

POW Kurt Vonnegut Writes Home From World War II: ‘The RAF Bombed Our Unmarked Train’

  After being taken prisoner by the Germans on December 19 1944, 22-year-old Kurt Vonnegut, wrote this letter. ...
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Sukia – The Dream Machine (1997)

Sukia – The Dream Machine (1997)

  My favourite group of the mid 90s were the antithesis of Britpop, which was ...
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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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