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Life In A Washington DC Boarding House For Government Workers (1943)

Life In A Washington DC Boarding House For Government Workers (1943)

Esther Bubley was one of the photographers employed by the US Farm Security Administration (Office of ...
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Hunter S Thompson’s Amazing Letter to Anthony Burgess (1973)

Hunter S Thompson’s Amazing Letter to Anthony Burgess (1973)

  "What kind of lame, half-mad bullshit are you trying to sneak over on us?" ...
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Photos From A Vintage Naked Satanic Ritual (NSFW)

Photos From A Vintage Naked Satanic Ritual (NSFW)

  Dig it freaks! Waaay bad juju is going down in the quiet suburban streets ...
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The Boys Brotherhood Republic Tear Up New York City (1955)

The Boys Brotherhood Republic Tear Up New York City (1955)

You remember those great photos of a New York teenage girl gang from 1955? Well, ...
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The Magical Art Of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Magical Art Of J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien liked to draw, illustrating much of his own writing. His original sketches for the first edition ...
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On This Day In Photos: January 7th In The 20th Century

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

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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Shot: Bad Vintage Photos (Volume II)

SHOT. More bad vintage photos. 'Shot' is Flashbak’s home for fingers over lenses, severed limbs, ...
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Memories of SEX in Forum Magazine (1976)

Memories of SEX in Forum Magazine (1976)

  "SEX became a magical place.  People spent hours there; no one wanted to leave.  ...
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Photos Of A New York Teenage Girl Gang (1955)

Photos Of A New York Teenage Girl Gang (1955)

Were you in a teenage girl gang in 1955 New York City? It's hard to ...
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Saartjie Baartman: The Hottentot Venus Who Aroused The Victorians

Saartjie Baartman: The Hottentot Venus Who Aroused The Victorians

 “Her contour and formation certainly surpass any thing of the kind ever seen in Europe, ...
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Is College Bad For Girls: A 1905 Pamphlet Available From Your Doctor

Is College Bad For Girls: A 1905 Pamphlet Available From Your Doctor

  "Is College Bad for Girls?" asks E.J. Richards in his 1905 booklet. The debate is more loaded ...
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The Story Sounds And Melodies From Joe Camp’s Family Film Benji (1974)

The Story Sounds And Melodies From Joe Camp’s Family Film Benji (1974)

  Remember those story records? You'd sit by your crummy kiddie record player and listen ...
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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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