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Goods Featured In The Soviet Commodity Dictionary 1956-61

Goods Featured In The Soviet Commodity Dictionary 1956-61

The Russian industry catalogues, aka The Soviet Commodity Dictionary, featured vital information about consumer products. Manufactured ...
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A 1972 Quiz on Women’s Lib: Young Miss Magazine

A 1972 Quiz on Women’s Lib: Young Miss Magazine

This November '72 issue of Young Miss magazine contains a fun little quiz on Women's ...
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Illustrations from American Spiders and Their Spinningwork (1889)

Illustrations from American Spiders and Their Spinningwork (1889)

Knows spiders by their webs a Victorian-era guide by the Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia ...
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Old Florida Postcards With Bettie Page And Horny Alligators

Old Florida Postcards With Bettie Page And Horny Alligators

Bunny Yeager took some of the photographs in this set of Florida postcards from the 1950s and 1960s ...
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Powers of Ten: Ray & Charles Eames Sociocratic Tour of The Universe (1977)

Powers of Ten: Ray & Charles Eames Sociocratic Tour of The Universe (1977)

In 1977, Los Angeles-based designers Ray (1912–1988) and Charles (1907–1978) Eames made Powers of Ten, a ...
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Imagination Makes It Fly: Fisher Price’s Alpha Probe (1980)

Imagination Makes It Fly: Fisher Price’s Alpha Probe (1980)

  Here’s another great spaceship toy from my childhood. I was just ten years old ...
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Budding Germ Scientist  Jimmy Page, 13, Plays Guitar on BBC Talent Show All Your Own (1957)

Budding Germ Scientist Jimmy Page, 13, Plays Guitar on BBC Talent Show All Your Own (1957)

It's 1957. A 13-year-old Jimmy Page appears on BBC TV show All Your Own (1952–1961).     ...
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Rod Serling Explains Where Ideas Come From (1972)

Rod Serling Explains Where Ideas Come From (1972)

Rod Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was asked by a student in 1972, "Where Do ...
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Highlights From Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1967)

Highlights From Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1967)

Highlights from Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1967). The educational book's 20 volumes complete a ...
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Rude Girls And Monkey Men: The 1979 and 1980 2-Tone Tours

Rude Girls And Monkey Men: The 1979 and 1980 2-Tone Tours

In 1979 cool kids rocked like a Monkey Man to the 2-Tone tour. The Specials, ...
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Jim Flora’s Mesmeric Album Covers

Jim Flora’s Mesmeric Album Covers

James Flora (1914-1998), a graduate of the Academy of Cincinnati (1935-1939), was hired by Columbia Records, owned ...
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Pierre Imans’ Wax Mannequins And The Ideal Female Body

Pierre Imans’ Wax Mannequins And The Ideal Female Body

Outstanding human mannequins from 1920s Paris ...
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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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