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Carried Away! 40 Examples of the Most Insanely Overused Image in Vintage Pop Art

Carried Away! 40 Examples of the Most Insanely Overused Image in Vintage Pop Art

A helpless lady is carried in the arms of a monster, robot, cowboy, etc.  The number of times this image has been repeated in pop art is simply beyond belief. ...
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Making Globes In 1955

Making Globes In 1955

British Pathé has published its vast collection of 85,000 historical films dating from 1896 to 1976 ...
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A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

Ted Polhemus shares his personal photo archive. His life begins in the bosom of the ...
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Anna Pavlova And Her Pet Swan Jack (1927)

Anna Pavlova And Her Pet Swan Jack (1927)

Anna Pavlova ( February 12, 1881 – January 23, 1931) was a principal ballerina of the ...
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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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    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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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