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Photographic portraits of Victorian women

Photographic portraits of Victorian women

Here then are the very real governesses, Miss Havershams, lovers, mothers and heroines of Victorian ...
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Ten Commandments For Flappers: 1922

Ten Commandments For Flappers: 1922

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The Tibetan Book of Proportions: An 18th Century Guide To Drawing Buddha

The Tibetan Book of Proportions: An 18th Century Guide To Drawing Buddha

Cartoonists have a guide on how to draw the Buddha. No such guide exists for ...
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¡Qué Extraño! 20 Odd and Maravilloso Mexican Comic Books

¡Qué Extraño! 20 Odd and Maravilloso Mexican Comic Books

  Bullies could beat up the fat American kids reading Batman and Superman.  But, you ...
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Rib and Bones: When Soviet X-rays became bootleg records of forbidden Western music

Rib and Bones: When Soviet X-rays became bootleg records of forbidden Western music

A quick trim with manicure scissors; a hole made (a burning ciggie was fine) and the ‘Bones’ or ‘Ribs’ were good to play. ...
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Doctor O’Followell’s X-rays of women wearing corsets: 1908

Doctor O’Followell’s X-rays of women wearing corsets: 1908

In 1908, Doctor O’Followell’s Le Corset (The Corset) featured X-rays of corsets for women. Well, so he ...
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Miniskirts & Monopoly: 1969 Parker Brothers Fashions

Miniskirts & Monopoly: 1969 Parker Brothers Fashions

1969 was the year of the Moon Landing and Woodstock, but it was also the ...
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They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

Last week here on Flashbak, I remembered “Fotonovels” or “Photostories,” and tagged those publications as ...
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Chart Busting Babes: 64 Top Hits Cheesecake Album Covers

Chart Busting Babes: 64 Top Hits Cheesecake Album Covers

In decades past, when you released a "top hits" album you had basically two options ...
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Faces of Auschwitz: 1940 to eternity with heroes, victims and villains

Faces of Auschwitz: 1940 to eternity with heroes, victims and villains

  Two new Commandments: 11: Never Forget 12: Don't be a bystander. They knew. They ...
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Viva Las Vegas! Adverts and Ephemera from Sin City in the 1960s-70s

Viva Las Vegas! Adverts and Ephemera from Sin City in the 1960s-70s

The over-the-top opulence here would make Henry VIII blush, but that's what Vegas is all ...
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The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

  As anyone who has read Jack Kerouac knows, his novels are filled with real ...
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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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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