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Postcards of Dead Bodies: Grim Souvenirs From The  Mexican Revolution

Postcards of Dead Bodies: Grim Souvenirs From The Mexican Revolution

Would you send a postcard featuring the picture of a dead body of a pile of charred ...
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Sublime Portraits Of Native Americans At The Dawn of The 20th Century

Sublime Portraits Of Native Americans At The Dawn of The 20th Century

We've shown you photographs of Native Americans in the early 1900s before, most notably Edward C. Curtis's wonderful ...
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Cassette Tape Advertising of the 1960s-1980s

Cassette Tape Advertising of the 1960s-1980s

Never has an advertisement lied as badly as this Scotch cassette tape ad from 1976. ...
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Soundsuits: Nick Cave’s Noisy Human Masquerade Ball

Soundsuits: Nick Cave’s Noisy Human Masquerade Ball

Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959 in Fulton, Missouri) crafts Soundsuits: intriguing, captivating, expressive, unnerving, otherworldly ...
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Disco Meets Dukes of Hazzard: A 1980 Fashion Spread

Disco Meets Dukes of Hazzard: A 1980 Fashion Spread

Talk about a time capsule! Luke Duke (Tom Wopatt) and Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) model ...
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Ordering Clothes Off The Internet With Instant Delivery: A Great Video From 1959

Ordering Clothes Off The Internet With Instant Delivery: A Great Video From 1959

As Amazon and others work out how to deliver goods ordered via the internet to ...
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The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

April 1941, and the Greyhound bus terminal at Washington DC is bustling. The waiting room ...
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‘Fanny Hill – Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ Covers and Artwork (NSFW)

‘Fanny Hill – Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ Covers and Artwork (NSFW)

I thrill / To any book like Fanny Hill, / And I suppose I always ...
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Broads, Dames, Dolls and Dishes: Gorgeous 1960s Mugshots

Broads, Dames, Dolls and Dishes: Gorgeous 1960s Mugshots

These mugshots from the 1960 are worthy of portrait status. Taken from Mark Michaelson's collection, each ...
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Girls on Phones: A Vintage Pop Culture Gallery

Girls on Phones: A Vintage Pop Culture Gallery

Here is a gallery of 45 ladies on telephones culled from vintage books, magazines, records, found ...
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Roman Totenberg And What The Holocaust Teaches Us About Giving ‘Freedom For The Thought We Hate’

Roman Totenberg And What The Holocaust Teaches Us About Giving ‘Freedom For The Thought We Hate’

Before the remarkable story of Roman Totenberg and his family's escape from the Nazis, a ...
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Popular Music’s Slow Dive to Irrelevance: A Reflection on “Why?”

Popular Music’s Slow Dive to Irrelevance: A Reflection on “Why?”

  Turn on the radio: Listen close and you might hear the death-rattle of popular ...
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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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