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The Kansas Beard Grown Contest of 1957

The Kansas Beard Grown Contest of 1957

Pictures of a 1957 beard growing contest in as Olathe, Kansas ...
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Butts On Vinyl Record Covers: A 1970s Contagion

Butts On Vinyl Record Covers: A 1970s Contagion

    What was with the massive amounts of album covers featuring butts in the ...
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Sci-Fi TV: 1983 – Wizards, Holograms, and Manimal!

Sci-Fi TV: 1983 – Wizards, Holograms, and Manimal!

The year 1983 brought a variety of short-lived science fiction TV series to the tube ...
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George Orwell’s 1944 Letter Revealing Why He Wrote 1984

George Orwell’s 1944 Letter Revealing Why He Wrote 1984

"For somewhat complex reasons nearly the whole of the English left has been driven to ...
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The Flash Gordon Pinball Table Flyer (1980)

The Flash Gordon Pinball Table Flyer (1980)

  "Pathetic Earthlings... Who Can Save You Now?" - Ming The Merciless, 1980     ...
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Ugly Vintage Meats: Before There Were Food Stylists

Ugly Vintage Meats: Before There Were Food Stylists

Cookbooks and adverts prior to the 1980s had a knack for making food look downright ...
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Venice Beach In The 1970s: Epic Photos Of Surf And Skate Pioneers

Venice Beach In The 1970s: Epic Photos Of Surf And Skate Pioneers

The 1970s and Venice Beach, California, is at the forefront of surfing and skating. David ...
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Hot Dogs And Prohibition Smut: Jack Dinsmore’s The Regular Fellows Monthly (1922)

Hot Dogs And Prohibition Smut: Jack Dinsmore’s The Regular Fellows Monthly (1922)

Jack Dinsmore's Joy Book, The Regular Fellows Monthly was published by The Merit Publishing Co., Cleveland, ...
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Pulp! The Classics: Great Works Of Literature Get Hard Boiled

Pulp! The Classics: Great Works Of Literature Get Hard Boiled

Pulp! The Classics sees David Mann hard boil classic works of literature, working covers into the mid-20th ...
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Eerie And Surreal Double Exposure Photographs From The 1940s, 50s and 60s

Eerie And Surreal Double Exposure Photographs From The 1940s, 50s and 60s

In Double Exposures we see shadows and overlaps of subjects in photographs taken in the 1940s, ...
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Animated Color Stereoviews of Late 19th Century Japan

Animated Color Stereoviews of Late 19th Century Japan

T. Enami (1859-1929) recorded life in Meiji-period Japan on a 3D stereoview. Based at his Yokohama studio, Enami achieved ...
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Dial “R” for Retro: 1960s-80s Ladies and Their Old-School Telephones

Dial “R” for Retro: 1960s-80s Ladies and Their Old-School Telephones

There’s nothing sexy about a smartphone – it’s just a thin flat rectangle.  Let’s face ...
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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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