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A Gallery of Toy Utility Belts of the 1970s

A Gallery of Toy Utility Belts of the 1970s

In the disco decade, before video games changed the way kids play, a good make-believe ...
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North Shields Prisoner Mug Shots: 1902-1916

North Shields Prisoner Mug Shots: 1902-1916

  These mug shots are of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 ...
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5 Reasons We Should All Love 1970s Fashions

5 Reasons We Should All Love 1970s Fashions

1970s fashions have developed a bad reputation; an object of mockery and snarky remarks. It ...
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A Short Vision: The 1950s Nuclear Armageddon Cartoon That Terrified Everyone Watching The Ed Sullivan Show

A Short Vision: The 1950s Nuclear Armageddon Cartoon That Terrified Everyone Watching The Ed Sullivan Show

  In the early 1950s, trained painters Peter Foldes and his wife Joan began work ...
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Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

With TiVo, DVR, Instant Streaming, etc. who watches commercials anymore?  Once upon a time, suffering ...
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19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

1983: The era of off-the-shoulder sweatshirts and leotards with matching tights (the brighter and shinier ...
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The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

After Star Wars premiered in 1977, the world fell in love with droids R2-D2 and ...
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When Playgrounds Were Deadly

When Playgrounds Were Deadly

Remember when playgrounds were fun? Sure, there was a pretty good chance you'd be scalded ...
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Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA wasn't a real street. No-one lived in the houses on it. It ...
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Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you believe in ghosts? William Hope (1863 – 8 March 1933) did. Maybe. More ...
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Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

  What you need for your car is a mascot. And no mascot is more ...
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Don’t Tamper in God’s Domain: Jurassic Park and the ‘Life Finds a Way’ Horror Movies of the 1990s

Don’t Tamper in God’s Domain: Jurassic Park and the ‘Life Finds a Way’ Horror Movies of the 1990s

Jurassic World (2015) -- the third sequel to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) -- opens ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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