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The Acid Family: Roger Steffens’ photos of tripping out in Vietnam and on reggae in the 1960s and beyond

The Acid Family: Roger Steffens’ photos of tripping out in Vietnam and on reggae in the 1960s and beyond

Roger Steffens is an authority on Bob Marley and the Wailers. He owns a huge archive ...
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How To Get A Husband For Young Ladies Spinsters & Widows: 1880

How To Get A Husband For Young Ladies Spinsters & Widows: 1880

How To Get A Husband - a 1880 primer. Including: "A veritable list of some ...
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Eighteen Brilliant Mini Adverts 1959 – 1989

Eighteen Brilliant Mini Adverts 1959 – 1989

Harold Macmillan proclaimed to the country: ‘You’ve never had it so good’. The British motor industry thought he was talking to them. ...
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Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka versus the NAACP

Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka versus the NAACP

My childhood pleasure for eating sweets was sharply curtailed by the handiwork of my dentist. ...
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Five Show-Within-Shows That Deserve Their Own Time Slots

Five Show-Within-Shows That Deserve Their Own Time Slots

  Even fictional TV characters like to kick back and watch television from time-to-time. We ...
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The Worst TV Theme Songs of the 1960s-1980s

The Worst TV Theme Songs of the 1960s-1980s

There have been plenty of great TV themes over the years.  Among my favorites: Mary ...
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Swinging 1966 Fashion Spreads

Swinging 1966 Fashion Spreads

Fashions in 1966 were poised perfectly between two extremes - the conservative era before, and ...
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Awkward Band Publicity Photos (Part 3)

Awkward Band Publicity Photos (Part 3)

Because you can never have enough awful bands you've probably never heard of posing foolishly ...
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Vintage Scenery Censors: Your Guide to Strategically Covered Nudity

Vintage Scenery Censors: Your Guide to Strategically Covered Nudity

You know the trope:  A completely nude character's "naughty bits" are blocked from view by ...
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Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg: Wonderful Photos 1931 – 2015

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg: Wonderful Photos 1931 – 2015

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931 – 11 January 2015):  
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¡Qué Terrible! 16 Bad Album Covers en Español

¡Qué Terrible! 16 Bad Album Covers en Español

If you wanted to have a look at the worst album covers of all time, ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

The Clash Revisited: Worshipping At The Temple of Politicized Punk

The Clash Revisited     Julien Temple’s latest raking of the coals of the punk ...
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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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