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Tom Hanks Writes A Great Letter On A 1934 Smith Corona Typerwriter

Tom Hanks Writes A Great Letter On A 1934 Smith Corona Typerwriter

  On July 13 2012, Tom Hanks wrote a great letter typed on the 1934 Smith Corona sent ...
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The Crazy and Joyous Tat In Greenland Studios’ 1969 Christmas Catalog

The Crazy and Joyous Tat In Greenland Studios’ 1969 Christmas Catalog

  I simply couldn't hold on to this 1969 magazine insert until Christmas; it's so ...
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In Focus: Lance Nix’s Wonderful Life Of Photos

In Focus: Lance Nix’s Wonderful Life Of Photos

Anyone with a camera can take a picture. Ubiquitous mobile phones mean pretty much everyone ...
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The Key of Hell: An 18th century Book of Black Magic

The Key of Hell: An 18th century Book of Black Magic

  Clavis Inferni or The Key of Hell is an eighteenth century occult book written ...
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The Clash: Rare Sketches For CLASH 2nd Songbook

The Clash: Rare Sketches For CLASH 2nd Songbook

  While interrogating materials for Rethink/Re-Entry – the monograph of artist Derek Boshier I am ...
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The Fastest Ship in the Galaxy? Remembering Milton Bradley’s Star Bird (1978)

The Fastest Ship in the Galaxy? Remembering Milton Bradley’s Star Bird (1978)

One of the great toy lines of the immediate post-Star Wars era comes from Milton ...
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The Naked Joy Of Wearing Fur: Photos 1950 – 1980

The Naked Joy Of Wearing Fur: Photos 1950 – 1980

“Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the ...
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Found Photos: Rocky Horror Show Behind The Scenes Polaroids

Found Photos: Rocky Horror Show Behind The Scenes Polaroids

"Found these on the platform of the C train in TriBeCa in 2011," writes Marterdom. ...
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The Struggle For Housing: A 1972 Fotoromanzo

To compliment the MOMA exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Italy's Strum Group - Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro de ...
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Paleofuture Highlights From ‘Italy: The New Domestic Landscape’ (1972)

Paleofuture Highlights From ‘Italy: The New Domestic Landscape’ (1972)

Paleofuture takes us back to these delightful home furnishing concepts at the 1972 Museum of Modern ...
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Paradise Garage Boutique In Harpers & Queen 1971

Paradise Garage Boutique In Harpers & Queen 1971

  Harpers & Queen ran this photograph of the short-lived but significant World’s End boutique ...
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The London Skyline 1616 v 2016: Visscher’s Engraving Updated And Interactive

The London Skyline 1616 v 2016: Visscher’s Engraving Updated And Interactive

  In 1616, fifty years before the Great Fire destroyed large parts of central London, Dutchman Claes ...
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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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