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Cover Girls of Model Airplane Magazines of the 1960s-1990s

Cover Girls of Model Airplane Magazines of the 1960s-1990s

Not so long ago we took a look at Yugoslavian Computer Magazine Cover Girls, now let's ...
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The Universalis Cosmographia (1507): The First Time America Was Named On A Map

The Universalis Cosmographia (1507): The First Time America Was Named On A Map

In April 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (11 September 1470 – 16 March 1520) became ...
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Fake Beards And Sandstorms: A 1923 Road Trip Through Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma

Fake Beards And Sandstorms: A 1923 Road Trip Through Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma

In 1923, recreational automobile travel was still new enough to be considered special and exciting. ...
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Vintage Mystery Parties: Found Photos of Folks Having Fun

Vintage Mystery Parties: Found Photos of Folks Having Fun

I don't know the backstory to any of these found photograph celebrations... but I do know ...
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At Home With The Satans: 3D Visions Of Hell (1875)

At Home With The Satans: 3D Visions Of Hell (1875)

In 1875 François Benjamin Lamiche and Adolphe Block presented their 3D interactive visions of what ...
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The Hole Book: An Illustrated Warning On Guns (1908)

The Hole Book: An Illustrated Warning On Guns (1908)

Poet and illustrator Peter Newell (1862 - 1924) saw his The Hole Book published in 1908. A ...
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Making Office Supplies Sexy: The 1971 Monarch Marking Mate Catalog

Making Office Supplies Sexy: The 1971 Monarch Marking Mate Catalog

Only in the 1960s or 70s would a label-maker catalog try to sex things up.  This ...
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The Pain Of Child Labor: Amputees And Injuries From When Life Was Cheap (1908 – 1924)

The Pain Of Child Labor: Amputees And Injuries From When Life Was Cheap (1908 – 1924)

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) ...
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Truth and Soul: The New York Dolls’ Fashion Revival

Truth and Soul: The New York Dolls’ Fashion Revival

Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi in Austin   On a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I enjoyed ...
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Roller-Vinyl! 20 Records from the Roller Skating Craze of the 1970s-80s

Roller-Vinyl! 20 Records from the Roller Skating Craze of the 1970s-80s

At some point in the mid to late seventies, the US and other countries suddenly ...
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Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi: The Most Punk Play Of All Time

Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi: The Most Punk Play Of All Time

Michael Meschke’s adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s scatological and chaotic play Ubu Roi was performed at the Marionetteatern ...
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The Spider-Man Underscore: Groovy Incidental Music From The 1960s TV Series

The Spider-Man Underscore: Groovy Incidental Music From The 1960s TV Series

  We can thank J Robert 'Bob' Harris (music) and three-time Oscar winner Paul Francis Webster ...
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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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