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Betty Pepis’ 1965 Book Interior Decorating A to Z  (1965)

Betty Pepis’ 1965 Book Interior Decorating A to Z (1965)

Scans from Betty Pepis’ 1965 book Interior Decorating A to Z.     A few words ...
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Edward Gorey’s Illustrations For T S Eliot’s Cats (1982): Books. Murder. Life Is Good.

Edward Gorey’s Illustrations For T S Eliot’s Cats (1982): Books. Murder. Life Is Good.

In 1982, one year after Andrew Lloyd Weber adapted the book for his musical composition Cats, Edward Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) illustrated Eliot's work ...
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T. S. Elliot Writes To Virginia Woolf (1924)

T. S. Elliot Writes To Virginia Woolf (1924)

  On July 8 1923, Virginia Woolf completed her work hand typesetting the first English edition of ...
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In Tune With Fun: A 1950s Accordion Comic Book

In Tune With Fun: A 1950s Accordion Comic Book

In the 1950s, a young man's dreams of popularity, parental approval and sex appeal could ...
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20 Mid-Century Christian Ventriloquism Albums

20 Mid-Century Christian Ventriloquism Albums

In the 1950s and 1960s Christian teachers turned to ventriloquism to teach kids about Jesus. They ...
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Hawkwind and Barney Bubbles Influence Le Gun’s Space Is Deep

Hawkwind and Barney Bubbles Influence Le Gun’s Space Is Deep

  Space Is Deep, was a 2013 exhibition from art collective Le Gun. The show, at ...
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Obiticide: People Magazine Killed ‘The Late’ Abe Vigoda In 1982 – 34 Years Before He Died

Obiticide: People Magazine Killed ‘The Late’ Abe Vigoda In 1982 – 34 Years Before He Died

  In 1982, People magazine killed Abe Vigoda with two words. Vigoda, a wonderful actor famous ...
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Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann. ...
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5 Masterplans of London After The Great Fire Of 1666

5 Masterplans of London After The Great Fire Of 1666

Sir Christopher Wren Said, 'I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls ...
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Istanbul Infinity: Aydin Büyüktas Recreates Turkish Cityscapes In A New Dimension

Istanbul Infinity: Aydin Büyüktas Recreates Turkish Cityscapes In A New Dimension

Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş shares with us his incredible pictures of Istanbul, twisted into an infinite city. Aydin ...
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Writing For Peanuts: How Charles Schulz and Snoopy Taught Us To Write

Writing For Peanuts: How Charles Schulz and Snoopy Taught Us To Write

In Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life (2002), thirty famous writers and entertainers produce 500-word essays alongside a favourite strip of quick-change-artist Snoopy at the typewriter.  ...
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The Robot with a Personality: Remembering Mego’s 2-XL

The Robot with a Personality: Remembering Mego’s 2-XL

  In 1978, Mego introduced a small, toy robot that could play 8-track tapes: the ...
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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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