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Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

  “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” ― Stephen King, Bag of ...
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Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels – Incredible Photos

Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels – Incredible Photos

Venerating human remains is not to everyone's tastes. Pouring wax over skulls and bones to form a kind of skin adds a ghoulish air. ...
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An October 1970 Weekday At The University of California, Berkeley

An October 1970 Weekday At The University of California, Berkeley

  Back near the end of the height of the hippy movement in California's Bay ...
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Kitchen & Laundry Miracles! Vintage Appliances and the Women that Loved Them

Kitchen & Laundry Miracles! Vintage Appliances and the Women that Loved Them

Home appliance advertising from the 1950s-1970s basically consisted of women in a state of sublime ...
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‘The Whole Place Was Going NUTS’ When The Cramps Played A Mental Hospital in Napa, California (1978)

‘The Whole Place Was Going NUTS’ When The Cramps Played A Mental Hospital in Napa, California (1978)

  On June 13, 1978, The Cramps performed a free concert for patients at the California ...
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Camper Tramps: A Spicy 1970s Komfort Travel-Trailer Brochure

Camper Tramps: A Spicy 1970s Komfort Travel-Trailer Brochure

The marketing strategy of the 1970s could basically be boiled down to two steps: Step (1) ...
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New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

In 1934, the New York Police Department finally let women officers carry guns. The first female ...
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35 Mixed-Gender Groups from the 1960s-1980s You Probably Never Heard Of

35 Mixed-Gender Groups from the 1960s-1980s You Probably Never Heard Of

We've all heard of The Mamas and the Papas, ABBA, The Fifth Dimension, and Fleetwood ...
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Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Fu Bingchang (1895-1965) was a diplomat and Nationalist politician, as well as an accomplished portrait and ...
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When Bat Woman And Other Birds Outraged The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

When Bat Woman And Other Birds Outraged The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

My posts about the Mr Freedom designs in the V&A collection sparked some memories from graphic ...
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Hit! The Service Man’s Gazette (June 1944)

Hit! The Service Man’s Gazette (June 1944)

June 1944 was the month of D-Day, where 160,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel to ...
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The Woman Suffrage Procession In Photos (March 3 1913)

The Woman Suffrage Procession In Photos (March 3 1913)

"This is the most conspicuous and important demonstration that has ever been attempted by suffragists ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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