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From Saint To Sex Object: Postcards of Nursing 1900-1950

From Saint To Sex Object: Postcards of Nursing 1900-1950

  In the 20th Century the nurse changed from being a saint and a mother to an object ...
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Alarmed and Dangerous: A Look at Crime in 1970s-80s America

Alarmed and Dangerous: A Look at Crime in 1970s-80s America

I won’t begin to make a case for whether crime increased during the 1970s, and ...
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The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot  (1960)

The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot (1960)

ON July 30 1960, "things got out of hand" at the Beaulieu jazz festival. One ...
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Five Pop Culture Memories of the Bigfoot Craze of the 1970s

Five Pop Culture Memories of the Bigfoot Craze of the 1970s

In 2014, the cryptid Bigfoot or “Sasquatch” has made something of a silver screen comeback, ...
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1981: Arsenal And Pele Go Nuts For Ingersoll Electronics

1981: Arsenal And Pele Go Nuts For Ingersoll Electronics

You should see the first photo when Pele was wearing shorts: Brazil legend Pele gets a ...
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Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Marijuana is the evil weed that will drive you to madness. Well, so they say. ...
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Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Something snaps when an actress loses her looks and her career falters.  It doesn’t happen ...
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I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

"You've got four seconds between when that cannon fires and when you're going to land, and a lot has to happen in that four seconds, you know" ...
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Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

FLASHBAK to May 25 1970:     This warning sign states the penalties for bringing ...
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1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

“A whole page? Wheeee! Imagine all those men in bowler hats grumbling ‘What’s this country coming to?’" ...
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Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

               
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Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

  Sophie Tucker.com: Born Sonya Kalish to a Jewish family en route to a new ...
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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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