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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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When Bicycle Messenger Boys Peddled Drugs And Sex Across America (1908 – 1917)

When Bicycle Messenger Boys Peddled Drugs And Sex Across America (1908 – 1917)

In 1908, Lewis Hine began taking photographs of bicycle messenger boys across America. Funded by the National ...
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Mid-Century Found Photos of People Wearing Hats

Mid-Century Found Photos of People Wearing Hats

Headwear was once compulsory for men and women. Now it's only de rigueur in places ...
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In Full: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon Comic Book Programme (1975)

In Full: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon Comic Book Programme (1975)

In 1975 Pink Floyd starred in a comic book, published to coincide with the band's ...
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Behind The Scenes Photos From Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Behind The Scenes Photos From Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Alan Parker’s tour de force film of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall, with contributions from Roger ...
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Too Gross! Remembering Mattel’s Mad Scientist Toys of the 1980s

Too Gross! Remembering Mattel’s Mad Scientist Toys of the 1980s

  In 1987, Mattel introduced the world to a great -- though messy -- toy ...
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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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