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A Time Before Netflix: Vintage TV Movie of the Week Adverts

A Time Before Netflix: Vintage TV Movie of the Week Adverts

  Before Netflix, before DVR, before premium movie channels, before even DVD and VHS, you ...
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The World’s First Illustrations for H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897)

The World’s First Illustrations for H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897)

H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel The War of the Worlds was first illustrated by London-born Warwick Goble ...
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Polaroids Of Snogging At A 1960s Make Out Party

Polaroids Of Snogging At A 1960s Make Out Party

Photographer and snapshot guru Lauren Leja has sent in this great album of Polaroids. Dubbed 'Make ...
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Boys Dressing Badly: 1978 Montgomery Ward Junior Fashions

Boys Dressing Badly: 1978 Montgomery Ward Junior Fashions

Ask the class who loves 1970s fashions and I'll be the first to raise my ...
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Berenice Abbott’s New York Stores  (1930s)

Berenice Abbott’s New York Stores (1930s)

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer renowned for ...
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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 ...
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Play-Doh Faces: Mesmerising Portraits In The Meatyard Mold

Play-Doh Faces: Mesmerising Portraits In The Meatyard Mold

In Photographs, Portuguese photographer Tomba Lobos merges Play-Doh and human faces to creates pictures that give ...
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Joe Strummer’s Wild Westway Western Wear And Sandpaper Blues

Joe Strummer’s Wild Westway Western Wear And Sandpaper Blues

I first met artist/curator Robert Gordon McHarg III two decades ago, when he was developing ...
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The Classic World Domination Game: Celebrating RISK (Parker Brothers)

The Classic World Domination Game: Celebrating RISK (Parker Brothers)

  In 1959, Parker Brothers licensed from creator Albert Lamorisse (1922-1970) a game called “Conquest ...
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Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971)

Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971)

In 1971, Dutch artists, photographers and graphic designers Ed van der Elsken (10 March 1925 – ...
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Welcome to Family-Time Hell: Vintage Board Games That Time Forgot

Welcome to Family-Time Hell: Vintage Board Games That Time Forgot

  I happen to really love board games, and have happy memories of playing them ...
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Passengers (1994 – 1996): The Awesome Awareness of Mortality

Passengers (1994 – 1996): The Awesome Awareness of Mortality

In Passengers (1994 - 1996), John Schabel zoomed in on people seated aboard planes waiting for takeoff ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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