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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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VD Is For Everyone: An Hilarious 1969 Promise From The American Social Health Association

VD Is For Everyone: An Hilarious 1969 Promise From The American Social Health Association

  In 1969, The American Social Health Association produced this video about venereal disease. Ostensibly a ...
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1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

In the 1970s space was the mission and the message. One thing occupied minds at NASA: ...
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Adam Purple’s Eden: New York’s Urban Gardener Built Beauty From Rubble 1975-1986

Adam Purple’s Eden: New York’s Urban Gardener Built Beauty From Rubble 1975-1986

  In 1975 Adam Purple was inspired. Squatting in an apartment at 184 Forsyth Street on New York ...
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Sci-Fi TV: 1977 – The Year of Star Wars Also Brought These Forgotten Wonders

Sci-Fi TV: 1977 – The Year of Star Wars Also Brought These Forgotten Wonders

  For my third instalment in this blog series about forgotten sci-fi television, I cast ...
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Stop Driving Us Crazy! (1959): A Methodist Moralising Martian Motor Movie

Stop Driving Us Crazy! (1959): A Methodist Moralising Martian Motor Movie

  In 1959, Dr. Caradine R. Hooton, General Secretary, of the Board Of Temperance of ...
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The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)

The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)

In the 1850s U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry landed his ships in Japan and set about ending ...
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Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light therapy was popular in Europe from the turn of the century until the late 1930s. The ...
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Roller Derby Kisses: Turning Girls’ Roller-Derby Bum Bruises Into Art

Roller Derby Kisses: Turning Girls’ Roller-Derby Bum Bruises Into Art

  "It’s only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern – when ...
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17 Soul Jangling 1970s Men’s Fashion Ads

17 Soul Jangling 1970s Men’s Fashion Ads

  This is clearly the coolest dude who has ever walked the earth. He's got ...
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25 Fantastic Photos Of Footballers At Home With Their Families In The 1970s And 80s

25 Fantastic Photos Of Footballers At Home With Their Families In The 1970s And 80s

Before football was WAGs, VAR and super injunctions, life was pretty normal for Britain's top sportsmen ...
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Belladonna of Sadness: A Lost Treasure Of Animated Psychedelic Demonic Eroticism (1973)

Belladonna of Sadness: A Lost Treasure Of Animated Psychedelic Demonic Eroticism (1973)

  Belladonna of Sadness (Kanashimi no Belladonna) is a 1973 "long-forgotten X-rated psychedelic animation gem ...
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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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