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Cigarette Cards Celebrating The Coronation of HM King George & HM Queen Elizabeth, 1937

Cigarette Cards Celebrating The Coronation of HM King George & HM Queen Elizabeth, 1937

My grandparents smoked--and they must have smoked a hell of a lot to collect the ...
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1970s Meat Zone: The Stomach-Churning World Of Meat Processing Magazine

1970s Meat Zone: The Stomach-Churning World Of Meat Processing Magazine

  Vegans, shield your eyes. You're about to enter an All-70s-Meat-Zone, and it's not going ...
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Found Photos: Great Polaroids Of A 1960s Halloween Party

Found Photos: Great Polaroids Of A 1960s Halloween Party

All we know about these photos is that they were taken in the 1960s in ...
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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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    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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