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When Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life With Kindness And Art (1962)

When Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life With Kindness And Art (1962)

  In March of 1962, Alfred Hitchcock was filming The Birds in Bodega Bay. He took a ...
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Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: Issachar Ber Ryback’s Avant-Garde Art of Remembrance (1922)

Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: Issachar Ber Ryback’s Avant-Garde Art of Remembrance (1922)

Russian artist Issachar Ber Ryback was a leading light for the Yiddish avant-garde movement. These lithographs ...
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12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

These maps offer perspectives on Europe at the onset of World War One in 1914. They are all ...
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One Got Fat: A Strange Bicycle Safety Film (1963)

One Got Fat: A Strange Bicycle Safety Film (1963)

  The story behind One Got Fat, a 1963 bicycle safety film, is simple: A ...
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Sci-Fi TV: 1987 – Of Comic Books, Blipverts and Road Warriors

Sci-Fi TV: 1987 – Of Comic Books, Blipverts and Road Warriors

  The year was 1987. U.S. President Ronald Reagan was dealing with the fall-out from ...
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The Relaxed Wife: Weird Adverts For Atarax Anti-Depressants (1957-1970)

The Relaxed Wife: Weird Adverts For Atarax Anti-Depressants (1957-1970)

  In 1957, the stressed could learn to relax by watching this video presentation by J.B. ...
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The Girl Who Became Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland  (1951)

The Girl Who Became Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland (1951)

  When Walt Disney began work on his animated adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland ...
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The Therapeutic Vibrator: Images From High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1918)

The Therapeutic Vibrator: Images From High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1918)

In a plain and conservative way this book will aim to show physicians and dentists what they can now readily do with high frequency currents of electricity. ...
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41 Outrageous Pages From Vintage Pulp Magazines

41 Outrageous Pages From Vintage Pulp Magazines

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, men's magazines were lurid and juicy. Indeed, these old men's ...
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20th Century Visions of Future Sex

20th Century Visions of Future Sex

The saying goes that every generation likes to think it invented sex. In the 20th Century, ...
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Zardoz: Cards And Stills Of Sean Connery And Charlotte Rampling In John Boorman’s Rich And Crazy Sci-Fi Spectacular

Zardoz: Cards And Stills Of Sean Connery And Charlotte Rampling In John Boorman’s Rich And Crazy Sci-Fi Spectacular

Zardoz (1974), John Boorman’s rich, crazy, daring, daft and kinky film starring Sean Connery as Zed, who ...
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18 Wonderful Visions of France In 2000 By Artists In 1900

18 Wonderful Visions of France In 2000 By Artists In 1900

En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000) is a series of visionary cigarette cards and postcards by Jean-Marc ...
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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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