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“I Was A Wild Hot Rod Girl!” And Other Torrid Tales from Confession Mags of the 1950s-1970s

“I Was A Wild Hot Rod Girl!” And Other Torrid Tales from Confession Mags of the 1950s-1970s

It started in 1919 with True Story and immediately spread to countless imitators. The confession magazine - ...
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Nicknames Of The States According To An Odd 1884 Map

Nicknames Of The States According To An Odd 1884 Map

Nicknames of the states according to a map produced in 1884 by livestock company H.W. ...
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Jim Jocoy’s West Coast Punk Rock Photography – SF/LA 1977-1980

Jim Jocoy’s West Coast Punk Rock Photography – SF/LA 1977-1980

Jim Jocoy's intimate polaroids and prints (1977 - 1980) take us back to the days ...
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Malcolm McLaren’s Reading list: From Nik Cohn and Tom Wolfe to Voodoo, a Frederick’s Of Hollywood Catalogue and Wilhelm Reich

Malcolm McLaren’s Reading list: From Nik Cohn and Tom Wolfe to Voodoo, a Frederick’s Of Hollywood Catalogue and Wilhelm Reich

A few years back I came across Malcolm McLaren’s annotated copy of Indian Rawhide, the ...
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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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    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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