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Found Photos: Wedding Day Snapshots

Found Photos: Wedding Day Snapshots

  As a fan of old photographs, especially the amateur variety, it was interesting to ...
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Beyond Battleship: Remembering Milton Bradley’s Sub Search

Beyond Battleship: Remembering Milton Bradley’s Sub Search

  Milton Bradley’s Sub Search (1973) is another board game blast from my youth in ...
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Bookstalls On Farringdon Road 1966

Bookstalls On Farringdon Road 1966

Libby Hall shares these great pictures of bookstalls on London's Farringdon Road in 1966. "Two lots of ...
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An 11-Year-Old Martin Scorsese Draws Storyboards For The Eternal City (1953) And Silence

An 11-Year-Old Martin Scorsese Draws Storyboards For The Eternal City (1953) And Silence

When he was 11 years old, Martin Scorsese (born November 17, 1942 in Queens, New ...
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‘We Liked it, but Not Too Much’ – Photos of Glasgow in 1976 by Ed Sijmons

‘We Liked it, but Not Too Much’ – Photos of Glasgow in 1976 by Ed Sijmons

In 1976 a Dutch couple Ed Sijmons and his partner Louise decided to visit Scotland ...
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The Men Who Ran The Burlington Route – June 1965

The Men Who Ran The Burlington Route – June 1965

These found photos appear to be of workers at the Burlington Route, aka The Chicago, Burlington ...
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Let It Rock Fashion Featured On A 1972 Budget LP: Malcolm McLaren’s Curated Clothing

Let It Rock Fashion Featured On A 1972 Budget LP: Malcolm McLaren’s Curated Clothing

  It is relatively common knowledge among those interested in the careers of Malcolm McLaren ...
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Darwin’s Emotional Specimens And Photographing The Mind

Darwin’s Emotional Specimens And Photographing The Mind

These photographs are from the book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles ...
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An A B C For Baby Patriots (1899): English Imperial Glory For Beginners

An A B C For Baby Patriots (1899): English Imperial Glory For Beginners

Published in 1899, Mrs. Ernest Ames' An ABC for Baby Patriots inducts the Great British baby in ...
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19th Century Asylum Portraits Reveal The Physiognomy of Insanity (1856)

19th Century Asylum Portraits Reveal The Physiognomy of Insanity (1856)

“...the Photographer catches in a moment the permanent cloud, or the passing storm or sunshine ...
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Anton Chekhov: 8 Ways To Be Civilized  (1886)

Anton Chekhov: 8 Ways To Be Civilized (1886)

In 1886, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) wrote a letter to his artist older brother of two years Nikolai. ...
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Kodachrome Slides Of A Family At San Francisco’s Golden Gate Exposition (1939)

Kodachrome Slides Of A Family At San Francisco’s Golden Gate Exposition (1939)

These Kodachrome slides were purchased at an estate sale in Oakland, California. They show a family out ...
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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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