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Highlights From An Archive Of 10,000 Digitized Wax Cylinder Recordings

  The University of California at Santa Barbara library has digitised its impressive haul of ...
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Migrant Mothers: Dorothea Lange’s Faces Of The Dust Bowl (1930s)

Migrant Mothers: Dorothea Lange’s Faces Of The Dust Bowl (1930s)

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the lives ...
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An Archive Of 14,000 Images From The French Revolution

An Archive Of 14,000 Images From The French Revolution

Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have digitised and curated a huge archive of ...
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Gratuitous Nudity In Argos Catalogues (1982-1989)

Gratuitous Nudity In Argos Catalogues (1982-1989)

  In our previous installment, we pretty well established that Argos babes were every bit ...
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Gay Bob: ‘The World’s First Openly Gay Doll’ Stepped From The Closet In 1977

Gay Bob: ‘The World’s First Openly Gay Doll’ Stepped From The Closet In 1977

In 1977, former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg gave the world Gay Bob,  'the world's first ...
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The Great Superhero Playsets of the 1970s

The Great Superhero Playsets of the 1970s

With companies like Mego, Ideal, and Amsco in the game, the disco decade was a ...
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Bette Davis Introduces Her Mustard Gelatin Ring (1981)

Bette Davis Introduces Her Mustard Gelatin Ring (1981)

No amuse-gueules, suburban dinner parties (or, worse still, urban ones), egg white enemas, coulis, gastro-pubs, wheatgrass juice ...
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Poetry of Physics: Dr. Harold Edgerton’s Time Stopping Strobe Photography

Poetry of Physics: Dr. Harold Edgerton’s Time Stopping Strobe Photography

Dr. Harold "Doc" Edgerton (1903-1990; MIT electrical engineering professor from the 1930s until his death in ...
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On This Day In Photos: November 7th In The 20th Century

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

Photos we found of people, places and events on November 7th in the 20th Century...
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Boys Boxing In British Schools (1950s): When The Noble Art Was A Force For Good

Boys Boxing In British Schools (1950s): When The Noble Art Was A Force For Good

  Frank Horvat's pictures of seductively seedy Paris nightlife in 1956 are glorious. His pictures of London a year ...
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People Lying On A Bed Of Nails Was Once All The Rage

People Lying On A Bed Of Nails Was Once All The Rage

Like footballers drinking milk, men in brocaded jackets spinning plates atop tall sticks and Open ...
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Connie Rodd: Buxom Star Of The US Military Guide To Keeping ‘Weapons’ In Shape

Connie Rodd: Buxom Star Of The US Military Guide To Keeping ‘Weapons’ In Shape

  Connie Rodd.... sounds like a porn name, doesn't it? In fact, Connie was 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 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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