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Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

In 1969, at age 49, Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin made him offer: quite your job and I'll pay you $100 a month for life to write. ...
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20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

  Via William Bird's collection
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The Pauli Effect: How Einstein’s Brilliant Successor Accidentally Destroyed Everything

The Pauli Effect: How Einstein’s Brilliant Successor Accidentally Destroyed Everything

"Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958), one of the founders of ...
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The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’

The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’

  For over 200 years Soho has had a racy reputation. Prostitution, for instance, was relatively ...
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‘Schoolkids’ Oz: Read In Full The Magazine That Started A Revolution

‘Schoolkids’ Oz: Read In Full The Magazine That Started A Revolution

In May 1970, London-based Oz magazine published the 'SCHOOL KIDS ISSUE', OZ No. 28. The issue was ...
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They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

    In The Chicago Tribune on November 5, 1961, the late Marvin Glass (1914-1974) ...
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A Bookmobile Library Rolls Into New Rochelle (1955)

A Bookmobile Library Rolls Into New Rochelle (1955)

In 1955 a 'Bookmobile' mobile library rolled into a residential area of New Rochelle, New ...
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Sunglasses Ron Rocks The Rainbow In 1977

Sunglasses Ron Rocks The Rainbow In 1977

The photograph above – taken by a friend, Neal Purvis – captures one of the leading ...
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People Sitting On Sofas In The Mid-20th Century

People Sitting On Sofas In The Mid-20th Century

Found Photos presents people sitting on sofas and chairs in the mid-20th Century:       
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Atelier 1923: Illustrations From Russia’s First Fashion Magazine

Atelier 1923: Illustrations From Russia’s First Fashion Magazine

In 1923, Russian fashionistas could buy issue one of Atelier. Inna Fedorova explains (Via): ...Atelier, created ...
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How To Dress For Success And To Get A Man: A 1967 Guide For Useless Women

How To Dress For Success And To Get A Man: A 1967 Guide For Useless Women

  "Just look pretty and keep quiet" is among the many pearls of wisdom offered ...
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America’s Fastest Shoppers Hit Brixton For A Tesco Supermarket Sweep (1966)

America’s Fastest Shoppers Hit Brixton For A Tesco Supermarket Sweep (1966)

On 10th August 1966, Mr and Mrs Buzidragis and their son Joe, winners of America's Supermarket ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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