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How To Spot A Jap: A US Army Guide (1942)

How To Spot A Jap: A US Army Guide (1942)

In 1942, the U.S. Government Printing Office produced 'HOW TO SPOT A JAP'. The guides was ...
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Comics with Problems: A Comic To Cure EVERY Problem

Comics with Problems: A Comic To Cure EVERY Problem

Comics with Problems features 'A Comic To Cure EVERY Problem'. From 1940s messages on Communism to ...
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Mugshots of Smiling Killers And Defiant Criminals From 19th Century Nebraska

Mugshots of Smiling Killers And Defiant Criminals From 19th Century Nebraska

The killers smile in these mug shot pictures from Nebraska ...
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USS Recruit: The Unsinkable Battle Ship Marooned In New York (1917 – 1920)

USS Recruit: The Unsinkable Battle Ship Marooned In New York (1917 – 1920)

Between 1917 and 1920, visitors to New York could take in SS Recruit, aka Landship ...
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John Baldessari: Joint Rolling Class And Other Unusual Assignments For CalArt Students (1970)

John Baldessari: Joint Rolling Class And Other Unusual Assignments For CalArt Students (1970)

John Baldessari is the artist who when asked how he'd be remembered, replied, “I’m the guy who ...
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Jerry Garcia’s Touching 1982 Letters And Sketch To A Vogue Cover Model

Jerry Garcia’s Touching 1982 Letters And Sketch To A Vogue Cover Model

'Oh well—I’ve always wanted to visit Ireland. Hope you enjoyed it & I hope this letter finds you well' ...
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Eating Out: Mind-Blowing Mid-Century Restaurant Postcards

Eating Out: Mind-Blowing Mid-Century Restaurant Postcards

In the 20th Century we began to eat out in our droves. In this gallery, ...
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Alexander Calder Performs His Circus Calder And Other Mobile Marvels

Alexander Calder Performs His Circus Calder And Other Mobile Marvels

American-born artist Alexander “Sandy” Calder (1898 – 1976) is best known for his stellar, shivering, complex ...
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Francis Bacon’s Modernist Furniture (Before Bacon Agonistes)

Francis Bacon’s Modernist Furniture (Before Bacon Agonistes)

  I’m fascinated by the modernist furniture and interiors produced by Francis Bacon before his ...
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The Outstanding Ice Follies Programme 1970

The Outstanding Ice Follies Programme 1970

Behold the over-the-top gaudy glitz of Ice Follies 1970. I recently came into a stack ...
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It’s You Against the Great White Shark: Remembering Ideal’s The Game of Jaws (1975)

It’s You Against the Great White Shark: Remembering Ideal’s The Game of Jaws (1975)

  It was the year 1975, and the apex of Jaws Mania. By some reckonings, ...
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The Harmony of Courtship: Naughty Stereo Cards (1870-1907)

The Harmony of Courtship: Naughty Stereo Cards (1870-1907)

Those 3D stereoscopes so beloved by the late Victorians were loaded with humor and sex. It ...
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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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