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The Velvet Underground As Peanuts Characters

The Velvet Underground As Peanuts Characters

  Working as the manager for up-and-coming New York band The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol ...
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16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

  Marcel Proust was an onanist of no little enthusiasm. His father thought that too much ...
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Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage – Book Covers

Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage – Book Covers

Story of O, or Histoire d’O as it was originally published in 1954, was written by ...
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In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble

In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble

  For the Harper's Bazaar Spring 1963 issue, Melvin Sokolsky (born New York City, 1938) reworked a ...
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Thirty-Four Brilliant West Berlin Postcards from the 1960s and 70s

Thirty-Four Brilliant West Berlin Postcards from the 1960s and 70s

It was on August 13, 1961 when the East German communists started to set up ...
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Movie Theater Marquees from the 1950s-1970s

Movie Theater Marquees from the 1950s-1970s

We've looked at grindhouse and x-rated marquees in 25 Sleazy Movie Marquees From The Golden Age ...
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Watch All Of Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films (1975)

Watch All Of Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films (1975)

In 1975, the BBC hired Mike Leigh to create a series of Five-Minute Films. Leigh, a master ...
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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. ...
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Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Look out for flying Italian snacks!  Here is a dolce e delizioso compendium of junk food ...
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Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

  When the Netherlands was overrun by the Germans in 1940, the Dutch East Indies was cut ...
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Yesterday’s Girl Watchers: Vintage Images of Guys Catching a Look

Yesterday’s Girl Watchers: Vintage Images of Guys Catching a Look

Well, fellas, the old days when women wore modest coverings and long dresses are over.  The ...
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Mardi Gras Floats of 1896: The Mystic Krewe of Comus’ Visions of Other Worlds

Mardi Gras Floats of 1896: The Mystic Krewe of Comus’ Visions of Other Worlds

  In 1857, six New Orleans businessmen formed the city's first Mardi Gras krewe – ...
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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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