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Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Extracts from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation by Louisa S. Cook. Geometrical psychology, ...
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Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

As we learned in Boozvertising Part 1, the art of selling alcohol is often a ...
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You’ll Burn Your Fingers!  Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

You’ll Burn Your Fingers! Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

  File this one under great toys that kids of the twenty-first century would never ...
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‘Girl May Be Third Brother’: In 1937 Julie Emilie Macard Became A Man

‘Girl May Be Third Brother’: In 1937 Julie Emilie Macard Became A Man

On January 6, 1937, The Times Daily  reported on Julie Emilie Macard. The story began: ...
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Television’s Worst Final Seasons of the 1970s-1980s

Television’s Worst Final Seasons of the 1970s-1980s

It’s rare to find a show that was good from beginning to end. Nearly every ...
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Mervyn Peake’s illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island

Mervyn Peake’s illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island

  If ever a budding author wanted to learn the craft of writing great fiction, ...
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Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

  The "secretary" as the mid-century once knew her is forever gone.  Like the stewardess, ...
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Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Before the Second World War, adverts in Japan, including Japanese Beer Adverts, were often produced by ...
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Let the Sunshine In: 1960s-70s Adverts in the Golden Age of the Tan

Let the Sunshine In: 1960s-70s Adverts in the Golden Age of the Tan

  Back in the 70s, your goal (mainly women) was to get as brown as ...
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Back of the Net!: Your Favourite Football Stars From 1971

Back of the Net!: Your Favourite Football Stars From 1971

  1960s pop music and television changed football forever--and we can blame The Beatles for ...
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Alfred E. Neuman Goes to the Movies: A Gallery of Seventies Blockbusters as seen in MAD Magazine

Alfred E. Neuman Goes to the Movies: A Gallery of Seventies Blockbusters as seen in MAD Magazine

In the seventies, all the options we now enjoy in terms of home entertainment  (DVDs, ...
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Portraits and Stories of African-American ex-Slaves: 1936-1938

Portraits and Stories of African-American ex-Slaves: 1936-1938

These are 'Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers ...
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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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