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36 Highlights From The ‘Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library’

36 Highlights From The ‘Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library’

Highlights from the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, a no-longer-functioning Lawrence-based collective, are many. The ...
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The Velvet Underground As Peanuts Characters

The Velvet Underground As Peanuts Characters

  Working as the manager for up-and-coming New York band The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol ...
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16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

  Marcel Proust was an onanist of no little enthusiasm. His father thought that too much ...
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Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage – Book Covers

Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage – Book Covers

Story of O, or Histoire d’O as it was originally published in 1954, was written by ...
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In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble

In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble

  For the Harper's Bazaar Spring 1963 issue, Melvin Sokolsky (born New York City, 1938) reworked a ...
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Thirty-Four Brilliant West Berlin Postcards from the 1960s and 70s

Thirty-Four Brilliant West Berlin Postcards from the 1960s and 70s

It was on August 13, 1961 when the East German communists started to set up ...
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Movie Theater Marquees from the 1950s-1970s

Movie Theater Marquees from the 1950s-1970s

We've looked at grindhouse and x-rated marquees in 25 Sleazy Movie Marquees From The Golden Age ...
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Watch All Of Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films (1975)

Watch All Of Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films (1975)

In 1975, the BBC hired Mike Leigh to create a series of Five-Minute Films. Leigh, a master ...
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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. ...
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Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Look out for flying Italian snacks!  Here is a dolce e delizioso compendium of junk food ...
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Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

  When the Netherlands was overrun by the Germans in 1940, the Dutch East Indies was cut ...
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Yesterday’s Girl Watchers: Vintage Images of Guys Catching a Look

Yesterday’s Girl Watchers: Vintage Images of Guys Catching a Look

Well, fellas, the old days when women wore modest coverings and long dresses are over.  The ...
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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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