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The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800)

The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800)

  Our love affair with reading begins with the ABCs. The earliest primers or hornbooks ...
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In Search Of Happiness In Disneyland 1983

In Search Of Happiness In Disneyland 1983

"After I finished photographing my ‘LAX’ series, I thought of places that had that beautiful ...
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The Age of Collage: Eugenia Loli’s Surreal Time Shifts

The Age of Collage: Eugenia Loli’s Surreal Time Shifts

  Eugenia Loli takes pictures from 20th Century magazines and science publications and reinvents them into something new, exuberant, witty ...
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Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Stretch Armstrong is a strange but beloved toy from the mid-1970s. The character of Stretch ...
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Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg Play Shakespeare’s Nymphs In 1968

Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg Play Shakespeare’s Nymphs In 1968

Behind the scenes photographs of Sir Peter Hall’s 1968 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream were taken by David Farrell. ...
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Sound Effects In Archie Comic Books

Sound Effects In Archie Comic Books

I know I've been going Archie crazy, but I think this one'll probably do it ...
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15 Photos Of Fifth Avenue, New York, In The 1970s

15 Photos Of Fifth Avenue, New York, In The 1970s

I’m a native New Yorker and still live in the City, writes Robert Iulo. In ...
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27 Photos of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain On A Summer’s Day In 1976

27 Photos of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain On A Summer’s Day In 1976

Bethesda Fountain sits on the lower level of the terrace of New York's City's Central Park. ...
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Watch This Hilarious Anti-Drugs PSA For A Surfing Monkey Coin Bank (1999)

Watch This Hilarious Anti-Drugs PSA For A Surfing Monkey Coin Bank (1999)

  In November 1999, Partnership For A Drug-Free America broadcast this PSA ad on TV. Before we ...
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Photos From Inside A Captured First World War German U-Boat (1918)

Photos From Inside A Captured First World War German U-Boat (1918)

Like the innards of some hellish behemoth gutted on the banks of the Tyne, these ...
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Paul Strand: Seeing The Blind (1915 – 1954)

Paul Strand: Seeing The Blind (1915 – 1954)

Strand took many of his photographs using a decoy lens on his camera, duping the subject into thinking he was photographing something else. ...
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From Outer Space to Your Toy Store: Rom the Space Knight (Parker Bros, 1979)

From Outer Space to Your Toy Store: Rom the Space Knight (Parker Bros, 1979)

  In 1979, ads from toy company Parker Brothers blared “The age of ROM has ...
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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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