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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Mind-Expanding Depictions of Black Life In 1900

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Mind-Expanding Depictions of Black Life In 1900

In 1900 civil rights activist, author and intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt; 1868-1963) ...
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Cornel Lucas’s Classic Portraits Of Marlene Dietrich

Cornel Lucas’s Classic Portraits Of Marlene Dietrich

Cornel Lucas (12 September 1920 - 8 November 2012) photographed movie stars. Working at Denham Studios, in ...
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Hawkwind Under the Westway And The Greasy Truckers Connection

Hawkwind Under the Westway And The Greasy Truckers Connection

  Friend, hero and photographer Joe Stevens sends me gems from his archive occasionally; this ...
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Totally Rad Fashions for 80s Girls

Totally Rad Fashions for 80s Girls

Pulled from a stack of magazines from the 1980s, let's have a look at some ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Strange Writing Ball

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Strange Writing Ball

When Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was in failing health he found reading and writing for longer ...
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25 Covers of the Playboy Club Magazine V.I.P.

25 Covers of the Playboy Club Magazine V.I.P.

Once upon a time, Playboy was a respectable publication.  It featured interviews with distinguished minds and ...
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Steve’s Snapshots From The 1979 Reading Festival

Steve’s Snapshots From The 1979 Reading Festival

"These snaps have suffered a bit with age, so I suppose it's a good job ...
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Mug Shots of San Francisco Boxers In the Early 20th Century

Mug Shots of San Francisco Boxers In the Early 20th Century

  Princeton University's early 20th Century album of portraits in the mugshot style of boxers ...
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When Charlie Chaplin Roll Danced For Winston Churchill (1931)

When Charlie Chaplin Roll Danced For Winston Churchill (1931)

I came across this story of a visit by Charlie Chaplin to Chartwell to see Winston ...
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How to Louse Up a Date! A Guide from 1948

How to Louse Up a Date! A Guide from 1948

From 1948 comes this guide on how to royally screw-up on a date.  The rules ...
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Thor Seeks The Meaning Of Life In A Creamsicle: A Wonderful Marvel Comic Panel From 1987

Thor Seeks The Meaning Of Life In A Creamsicle: A Wonderful Marvel Comic Panel From 1987

In which Thor tries to find the meaning of life in a Creamsicle.     ...
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A Raucous Night At O’Rourke’s Bar, Brooklyn (1960)

A Raucous Night At O’Rourke’s Bar, Brooklyn (1960)

William Gedney (October 29, 1932 – June 23, 1989) spent a night at O'Rourke's bar ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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