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Absurd Fashions From A 1980s Stasi Disguise Seminar

Absurd Fashions From A 1980s Stasi Disguise Seminar

In 1989, 91,015 comrades worked directly for the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security ...
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Sophie Scholl And The White Rose Rebellion : ‘We Are Your Bad Conscience’

Sophie Scholl And The White Rose Rebellion : ‘We Are Your Bad Conscience’

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also ...
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Beautiful Portraits of The Fabulous Ziegfeld Girls

Beautiful Portraits of The Fabulous Ziegfeld Girls

Hazel Forbes (1928).   A truth is often only what people want to believe. The ...
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Cardboard Politics: Remembering Amy Carter at the White House Play Set

Cardboard Politics: Remembering Amy Carter at the White House Play Set

  Although Amsco virtually cornered the market for cardboard play sets in the 1970s with ...
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Sex And The Censors: America’s First Obscene Books Commission (1953 – 1973)

Sex And The Censors: America’s First Obscene Books Commission (1953 – 1973)

"Trying to Define What May Be Indefinable": The Georgia Literature Commission, 1953-1973   It has ...
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Umberto Eco And Eugenio Carmi’s The Three Astronauts Teaches Us About Humanity (1966)

Umberto Eco And Eugenio Carmi’s The Three Astronauts Teaches Us About Humanity (1966)

In 1966, Umberto Eco treated readers to I tre cosmonauti (The Three Astronauts), the second issue in ...
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John Barker’s Magnificent Department Stores On Kensington High Street

John Barker’s Magnificent Department Stores On Kensington High Street

  On 22nd June 1960, models posed with items for sale at John Barker's department store ...
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American History: Trey Parker’s Students Academy Award Winning Movie (1992)

American History: Trey Parker’s Students Academy Award Winning Movie (1992)

"And the Americans headed to the West, the final frontier, to boldy go where no ...
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Eleven Classic Covers of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’

Eleven Classic Covers of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by the late Harper Lee, was originally published in ...
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Beautiful 20th Century Morley Hosiery Adverts

Beautiful 20th Century Morley Hosiery Adverts

John and Richard Morley originally came from a farming family near Nottingham. Towards the end ...
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Wound Man And Other Illustrations From Pseudo-Galen, Anatomia (14th Century)

Wound Man And Other Illustrations From Pseudo-Galen, Anatomia (14th Century)

These are anatomical illustrations from the 15th Century English medical treatise Pseudo-Galen, Anatomia, the title a ...
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Dear Joni: Teen Life Magazine (Feb 1963)

Dear Joni: Teen Life Magazine (Feb 1963)

  Well, it would be exactly one year before The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan ...
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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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