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Questionnaire Sent To Prospective Members of the Ku Klux Klan (1921)

Questionnaire Sent To Prospective Members of the Ku Klux Klan (1921)

In 1921, white Protestants might receive an invitation to take a test to join the ...
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Women Featured On British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

Women Featured On British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

In the 1980s, the most famous female footballer in the UK was Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), ...
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Room With A View: The Intimate World Of Josef Sudek

Room With A View: The Intimate World Of Josef Sudek

"I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects, to relate something mysterious: ...
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Join the Dinky Starfleet! Remembering the Dinky Space Toys of the 1970s

Join the Dinky Starfleet! Remembering the Dinky Space Toys of the 1970s

  Although Dinky Toys was in operation as early as 1935, I first learned of ...
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Concrete Poems: Abandoned Hotels In The Sinai Desert

Concrete Poems: Abandoned Hotels In The Sinai Desert

German artists Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche's photographs of abandoned Sinai Hotels point to what might ...
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Star Wars: Mark Hamill has fun with a fans’  Star Wars trading cards

Star Wars: Mark Hamill has fun with a fans’ Star Wars trading cards

Once upon a time, Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) thought it a good idea to mess ...
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Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra Hair Dressing Department Photographs (1963)

Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra Hair Dressing Department Photographs (1963)

These continuity photographs showing Elizabeth Taylor in costume were taken by the Cleopatra (1963) hair dressing department. ...
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Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

  In 1967, Star Trek (1966-1969) featured an episode titled “The Apple.” In that story, ...
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Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

In 1939, the New York World's fair hosted a display by the NTG Sun Worshippers. ...
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The Vietnam War People Sniffer: Sweating Gets You Killed (1967)

The Vietnam War People Sniffer: Sweating Gets You Killed (1967)

In 1967, US troops in Vietnam were equipped with the People Sniffer, a device designed to ...
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Katharine Hepburn Became A Sexy Silver Moth For Christopher Strong (1933)

Katharine Hepburn Became A Sexy Silver Moth For Christopher Strong (1933)

In 1933, a 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) starred as Lady ...
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Madonna’s AIDS Comic Given To Fans At A 1987 Concert

Madonna’s AIDS Comic Given To Fans At A 1987 Concert

On July 13 1987, Madonna performed at New York's Madison Square Garden. Before the show she ...
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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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