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The Men Who Flew In Kites 1900-1924

The Men Who Flew In Kites 1900-1924

Kites led to airplanes.                       ...
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Remembering the 4:30 Movie (WABC Channel 7, New York)

Remembering the 4:30 Movie (WABC Channel 7, New York)

  When I was six and seven years old, my parents brand new Zenith TV ...
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Weirdly Wonderful Costumes From Oskar Schlemmer’s Das Triadische Ballett (1922)

Weirdly Wonderful Costumes From Oskar Schlemmer’s Das Triadische Ballett (1922)

On 30 September 1922, Oskar Schlemmer, leading light of the Bauhaus school, staged his Das Triadisches ...
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Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Illustrated Aggro Chic For Club International And Prostitution

Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Illustrated Aggro Chic For Club International And Prostitution

  A few months before Cosey Fanni Tutti upset the apple-cart as a member with ...
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Racist Hollywood’s Good Citizens And The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968)

Racist Hollywood’s Good Citizens And The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968)

“The public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a ...
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Brought to Earth by Ideal: Remembering the Mighty Zeroids (1968-1970)

Brought to Earth by Ideal: Remembering the Mighty Zeroids (1968-1970)

  In 1968, Ideal Toys released the Zeroids: a set of toy robots described as ...
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The Lost Movie ‘London After Midnight’ and the Brutal Murder of Julia Mangan in 1928

The Lost Movie ‘London After Midnight’ and the Brutal Murder of Julia Mangan in 1928

On October 23, 1928 a man called Robert Williams was found by a policeman near Fountain ...
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Mr And Mrs Pork: Brigid Berlin’s Polaroids Of Andy Warhol’s Scars And Other Friends

Mr And Mrs Pork: Brigid Berlin’s Polaroids Of Andy Warhol’s Scars And Other Friends

Debutante Brigid Berlin's father Richard was a long-time President of Hearst Corporation. He was a ...
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The Dummy’s Art Deco Head: A 1920 Study In Four Photographs

The Dummy’s Art Deco Head: A 1920 Study In Four Photographs

We love these 1920 photographs taken in the art deco style of a store dummy's ...
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Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

We still want decent housing for all ...
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Powerful Photos Of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks – 1969-72

Powerful Photos Of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks – 1969-72

From 1969 to 1972, photographer Nick Hedges took pictures of life in the old Glasgow ...
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Shocking Photos Of Sheffield Slums 1969-72

Shocking Photos Of Sheffield Slums 1969-72

From 1969 to 1972, photographer Nick Hedges took pictures of life in Sheffield, England. Nick ...
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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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