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Oily Biceps and Neon Spandex: Muscle & Fitness Magazines of the 1980s

Oily Biceps and Neon Spandex: Muscle & Fitness Magazines of the 1980s

  It was a time of hyper-concentration on appearance. The Baby Boomers were out of ...
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Take it Anywhere: Remembering Blip, The Digital Game (Tomy, 1977)

Take it Anywhere: Remembering Blip, The Digital Game (Tomy, 1977)

  Here’s another crazy artefact from the 1970s, a handheld game console from Tomy called, ...
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The First Same-Sex Kiss in Cinema (1916)

The First Same-Sex Kiss in Cinema (1916)

In 1927, audiences were treated to a same-sex kiss. In Wings, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, ...
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Wonderful Kodachromes of 1950s Utah by Max Gene Leonard

Wonderful Kodachromes of 1950s Utah by Max Gene Leonard

"Utah native Max Gene Leonard got a job with the US Department of Defense school system ...
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Vinyl Studs: Macho Album Cover Ladykillers of the 1960s-1980s

Vinyl Studs: Macho Album Cover Ladykillers of the 1960s-1980s

  Even Henry Mancini, the ever-classy composer, wasn't immune to the album cover custom of portraying ...
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The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

Werner Heisenberg and his team were tasked with building a nuclear weapon for Nazi Germany. In ...
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The Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

The Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

Do you knit? Maria Popova has a word to the wise, noting that “the flower doesn’t go ...
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You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: Virginia Slims Advertising Year By Year

You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: Virginia Slims Advertising Year By Year

It started in 1968 - Phillip Morris launches the very first cigarette brand marketed specifically ...
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Home ’78: Interior Décor from the Disco Era

Home ’78: Interior Décor from the Disco Era

Disco era décor didn't have to be tacky.  The exaggerated picture provided by movies has tricked ...
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Ketubah Art: Jewish Marriage Contracts From The 17th and 18th Centuries

Ketubah Art: Jewish Marriage Contracts From The 17th and 18th Centuries

The ketubah (plural ketubot) is a public marriage contract signed by two witnesses and then read ...
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Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps, By Pierre Jamet  (1930s)

Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps, By Pierre Jamet (1930s)

Pierre Jamet (May 24, 1910, Saint-Quentin, France - 17 August,2000, Belle Île, France) was a singer ...
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Birds Of Britain: The Most Fanciable Women In Swinging London

Birds Of Britain: The Most Fanciable Women In Swinging London

In the spring of 1966, British photographer John d Green created Birds of Britain, a ...
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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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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