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A Gauntlet of Terrors: An Undercover Reporter Shames America Over Its Treatment Of Immigrants (1921)

A Gauntlet of Terrors: An Undercover Reporter Shames America Over Its Treatment Of Immigrants (1921)

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus ...
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Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

  Between 1937 and 1942, Farm Security Administration photographers Edwin Rosskam and John Collier recorded ...
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Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

  “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” ― Stephen King, Bag of ...
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Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels – Incredible Photos

Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels – Incredible Photos

Venerating human remains is not to everyone's tastes. Pouring wax over skulls and bones to form a kind of skin adds a ghoulish air. ...
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An October 1970 Weekday At The University of California, Berkeley

An October 1970 Weekday At The University of California, Berkeley

  Back near the end of the height of the hippy movement in California's Bay ...
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Kitchen & Laundry Miracles! Vintage Appliances and the Women that Loved Them

Kitchen & Laundry Miracles! Vintage Appliances and the Women that Loved Them

Home appliance advertising from the 1950s-1970s basically consisted of women in a state of sublime ...
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‘The Whole Place Was Going NUTS’ When The Cramps Played A Mental Hospital in Napa, California (1978)

‘The Whole Place Was Going NUTS’ When The Cramps Played A Mental Hospital in Napa, California (1978)

  On June 13, 1978, The Cramps performed a free concert for patients at the California ...
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Camper Tramps: A Spicy 1970s Komfort Travel-Trailer Brochure

Camper Tramps: A Spicy 1970s Komfort Travel-Trailer Brochure

The marketing strategy of the 1970s could basically be boiled down to two steps: Step (1) ...
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New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

In 1934, the New York Police Department finally let women officers carry guns. The first female ...
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35 Mixed-Gender Groups from the 1960s-1980s You Probably Never Heard Of

35 Mixed-Gender Groups from the 1960s-1980s You Probably Never Heard Of

We've all heard of The Mamas and the Papas, ABBA, The Fifth Dimension, and Fleetwood ...
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Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Fu Bingchang (1895-1965) was a diplomat and Nationalist politician, as well as an accomplished portrait and ...
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When Bat Woman And Other Birds Outraged The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

When Bat Woman And Other Birds Outraged The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

My posts about the Mr Freedom designs in the V&A collection sparked some memories from graphic ...
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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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