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Found Photos: New Orleans Mardi Gras 1968

Found Photos: New Orleans Mardi Gras 1968

Found photos of Mardi Gras, New Orleans - February 27, 1968   Via: Retrophile
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W. E. B. Du Bois Writes To His Daughter Yolande: A Letter Every Parent And Teenager Should Read

W. E. B. Du Bois Writes To His Daughter Yolande: A Letter Every Parent And Teenager Should Read

  On October 29, 1914, W. E. B. Du Bois  (February 23, 1868 – August 27, ...
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Powered Fun and Thrills: Remembering Schaper’s Telesonic Toys of the Mid-1970s

Powered Fun and Thrills: Remembering Schaper’s Telesonic Toys of the Mid-1970s

  In the 1970s, Schaper Toys was a big name (and was so until 1986, ...
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Visible Girls: Inspirational Photos of Female Subculture in 1980s Britain

Visible Girls: Inspirational Photos of Female Subculture in 1980s Britain

In the early 1980s, Anita Corbin took photos of young women dressed in the garb ...
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Inside The Eton College And Westminster School Tuck Shops (1925 – 1937)

Inside The Eton College And Westminster School Tuck Shops (1925 – 1937)

"Of all the customs, that which appears to me the most absurd, is the one ...
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Found Photos: One Woman’s Love Affair With Her Married Boss

Found Photos: One Woman’s Love Affair With Her Married Boss

  Between May 1969 and December 1970 unmarried secretary Margret S., 24, and her German businessman boss, Günter ...
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On This Day In Photos: February 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: February 7th In The 20th Century

Photos we found of people, places and events on February 7th in the 20th Century:
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Dear Children of Troy: Leading Figures Write Letters On The Magic of Libraries (1971)

Dear Children of Troy: Leading Figures Write Letters On The Magic of Libraries (1971)

When the Troy Public Library on 510 West Big Beaver opened in 1971, children's librarian Marguerite Hart ...
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In The Library: Where Books Live And You Think (Photos 1950-1961)

In The Library: Where Books Live And You Think (Photos 1950-1961)

  Dear Children of Troy: Your librarian has asked me to write, telling you what ...
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Lions And Riders Take On The Wall Of Death

Lions And Riders Take On The Wall Of Death

Before the telly people made their own entertainment. This is no fusty Luddite rant about ...
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James Tormey’s Superb Raymond Chandler Covers For Penguin

James Tormey’s Superb Raymond Chandler Covers For Penguin

The exclusion of designer James Tormey  – and in particular his early 70s covers for ...
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His Evil Brains Glow in the Dark: Remembering Kenner’s Alien Figure (1979)

His Evil Brains Glow in the Dark: Remembering Kenner’s Alien Figure (1979)

  One of the most legendary and sought-after toys from my youth in the 1970s ...
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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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