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Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Slinky Toy Commercials Across The Decades

Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Slinky Toy Commercials Across The Decades

  In 1943, an inventor named Richard James created a toy that is still going ...
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Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

The Communists liked concrete. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, they shaped concrete into huge monuments ...
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The Rockford Files: You Can Download Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine Messages For Your Mobile Here

The Rockford Files: You Can Download Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine Messages For Your Mobile Here

  The Rockford Files (1974-1980) always began the same way: the phone is ringing; an answering machine ...
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Bill Brandt’s Underground Shelter Photographs from November 1940

Bill Brandt’s Underground Shelter Photographs from November 1940

Not long after the Blitz began the Ministry of Information commissioned Bill Brandt to photograph ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

21 Unusual And Creepy Mid-Century Postcards Of People Looking At Things

What do you want to see at a tourist destination? Postcards of people looking at ...
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Saturday Morning Madness: The 5 Most Bizarre Live-Action Saturday Morning Programs of the 1970s

Saturday Morning Madness: The 5 Most Bizarre Live-Action Saturday Morning Programs of the 1970s

  If you grew up watching Saturday morning programming in the disco decade, you undoubtedly ...
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Pleasure Boating Advert-orama: Dorsett Marine And Raymond Loewy’s Mid-Century American Dream

Pleasure Boating Advert-orama: Dorsett Marine And Raymond Loewy’s Mid-Century American Dream

  These fabulous illustrations are from the Dorsett Marine catalog 1963-64. The pictures appear to be from some ...
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On This Day In Photos: September 7th In The 20th Century

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

Photos we found of people, places and events on September 7th in the 20th Century... ...
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‘Giraffe Neck’ Padaung Women Tour London And New York Circuses: 1900-1957

‘Giraffe Neck’ Padaung Women Tour London And New York Circuses: 1900-1957

  The Padaung, a group native to Burma and Thailand, focus on their necks, covered ...
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Fourteen Glorious Pages of Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1973

Fourteen Glorious Pages of Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1973

Kay and Co Ltd was actually originally founded in Worcester in 1886 when William Kilbourne ...
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Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

What you are about to see are not film sets Stanley Kubrick thought too isolated ...
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22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

  In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet Union mills made sure the media was the message. ...
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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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