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Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

  "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism," wrote Raymond Chandler in The ...
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Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

  The 1970s and 1980s – the pre-Internet Age -- witnessed the rise of so ...
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25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

In 1834 Charles Lambert, the son of a snuff miller from Surrey, set up a ...
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Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

There's something about an old photograph with no context - no text, no background information, ...
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The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image

The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image

    In 1966 John Dominis photographed a leopard and a baboon fighting. Had he happened upon the ...
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30 Celebrities in Vintage Commercials & Advertising

30 Celebrities in Vintage Commercials & Advertising

Yes, that's Barbara Eden in a 1964 advert for suntan lotion, before she became Jeannie. ...
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British Football Fans 1900-1930: Black Faces, Duck Hats And Living Dangerously

British Football Fans 1900-1930: Black Faces, Duck Hats And Living Dangerously

 
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Vintage Nudevertising: The Art of Selling in the Buff

Vintage Nudevertising: The Art of Selling in the Buff

Why is there a naked woman in a comb advertisement?  No clue.  It's a thing ...
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Stone Cold Foxes of Saturday Morning Television

Stone Cold Foxes of Saturday Morning Television

Remember Saturday mornings in the 1970s and early 80s? All was right with the world. ...
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The Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly: 17 April 1941.

The Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly: 17 April 1941.

  The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away ...
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They’re Kid Tested! A Whitman Frame Tray Puzzle Gallery

They’re Kid Tested! A Whitman Frame Tray Puzzle Gallery

  Here’s another bit of nostalgia from my misspent youth in the disco decade: Whitman ...
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Photos From A 1966 IRA Training Camp

Photos From A 1966 IRA Training Camp

  In the mid 1960s the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ran training camps. These photographs are ...
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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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