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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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1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome

1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome

In Vintage Americana Vacations (1950s) ElectroSpark shares a set is for Kodachromes shot on the ...
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Otl Aicher’s Order Fights Terrorist Modernity At The 1972 Olympic Games

Otl Aicher’s Order Fights Terrorist Modernity At The 1972 Olympic Games

Kommando Otl Aicher is Alexander Negrelli’s study of the 1972 Olympic Games through the prism ...
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The 1969 Gold Strike Stamps Catalog

The 1969 Gold Strike Stamps Catalog

Those old enough to remember the 1960s and 1970s will remember trading stamps. For those ...
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Historical Dandies: British Cigarette Cards (1932)

Historical Dandies: British Cigarette Cards (1932)

Historical Dandies is a set of cigarette cards created by the Nottingham's John Player & sons ...
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Wonderful Ephemera from Logan’s Run – Released Forty Years Ago

Wonderful Ephemera from Logan’s Run – Released Forty Years Ago

Logan’s Run was originally a novel written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson ...
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The Alpha Beta Store In Santa Ana (1974)

The Alpha Beta Store In Santa Ana (1974)

Alpha Beta (1917-1995) was chain of supermarkets in the United States. These 1974 snapshots are of ...
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The Tragic Story of the Artist Pauline Boty

The Tragic Story of the Artist Pauline Boty

Boty’s tutor at time, once recalled a younger student going up to her in the canteen at Wimbledon and asking her why she wore so much red lipstick: ‘ ‘All the better to kisssss you with,’ she said, and chased him out of the room.’ ...
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Travel into “Unexplored Territory” with Star Trek Colorforms (1975)

Travel into “Unexplored Territory” with Star Trek Colorforms (1975)

As Star Trek (1966-1969) nears its 50th anniversary, it’s time to feature another franchise memory ...
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The Runaways Lita Ford Gives Away Her I Groaned With Pain T-Shirt (1977)

The Runaways Lita Ford Gives Away Her I Groaned With Pain T-Shirt (1977)

I am indebted to IG pal and fan of this blog Kjell Magnusson for this ...
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Rock Against Racism: Photographs Of The Music Revolution

Rock Against Racism: Photographs Of The Music Revolution

Syd Shelton's pictures of Rock Against Racism (1976 - 1981) take us back to when ...
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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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