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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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Truth and Soul: The New York Dolls’ Fashion Revival

Truth and Soul: The New York Dolls’ Fashion Revival

Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi in Austin   On a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I enjoyed ...
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Roller-Vinyl! 20 Records from the Roller Skating Craze of the 1970s-80s

Roller-Vinyl! 20 Records from the Roller Skating Craze of the 1970s-80s

At some point in the mid to late seventies, the US and other countries suddenly ...
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Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi: The Most Punk Play Of All Time

Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi: The Most Punk Play Of All Time

Michael Meschke’s adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s scatological and chaotic play Ubu Roi was performed at the Marionetteatern ...
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The Spider-Man Underscore: Groovy Incidental Music From The 1960s TV Series

The Spider-Man Underscore: Groovy Incidental Music From The 1960s TV Series

  We can thank J Robert 'Bob' Harris (music) and three-time Oscar winner Paul Francis Webster ...
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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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    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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