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Haunting Portraits of Inmates at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, in Yorkshire, England 1869

Haunting Portraits of Inmates at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, in Yorkshire, England 1869

  Every face tells a story. Every picture expresses what the photographer wanted to show ...
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Sounds of the Sixtwees: The Men Who Missed The Psychedelic Boat

Sounds of the Sixtwees: The Men Who Missed The Psychedelic Boat

    Sounds of the Sixtwees: the men who missed the psychedelic boat 1967, the ...
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Fabulous Covers from Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1950-1970

Fabulous Covers from Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1950-1970

Lesbian Pulp Fiction There was an old secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh where I whiled away ...
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Lost in Translation: Japanese Advertising in the 1960s-80s

Lost in Translation: Japanese Advertising in the 1960s-80s

Nothing makes me want to buy chocolate more than a man being attacked by creepy ...
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Wonderful Women With Wicked Tattoos: 1900-2000

Wonderful Women With Wicked Tattoos: 1900-2000

  Women with tattoos certainly isn't new. We've pulled together these pictures of inked women ...
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Olive Oatman Was The 1850s Girl With A Tattoo On Her Face

Olive Oatman Was The 1850s Girl With A Tattoo On Her Face

  On February 18, 1851, Olive Oatman, 13, and her sister Mary Ann, 7, were kidapped ...
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Chicago ’73 – Forty Incredible Photographs by John H. White

Chicago ’73 – Forty Incredible Photographs by John H. White

In White’s own words these amazing photographs catch the “spirit, love, zeal, pride and hopes” of the African-American community of Chicago. ...
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Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

There is nothing worse for a kid than getting a new toy only to find ...
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Enchanted Elsewhere: Selling Sex and Hedonism in Retro Travel Advertising

Enchanted Elsewhere: Selling Sex and Hedonism in Retro Travel Advertising

 "I don't know what time it is or even what day it is.  I guess ...
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Mano a Mano: Six Times Cult-TV went to the Arena

Mano a Mano: Six Times Cult-TV went to the Arena

Fredric Brown’s short story "Arena" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1944.  It concerned a ...
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Listen To These Albums Of 1970s Sex Tape Music

Listen To These Albums Of 1970s Sex Tape Music

    What was that song, you know the tune you hard plying on that ...
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The 1976 TV Watch By Driva Geneve of Switzerland

The 1976 TV Watch By Driva Geneve of Switzerland

Before the iWatch and wearable tchnology, a watch made by Driva Geneve of Switzerland incorporated ...
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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 Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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