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“I Started a High School Sex Riot!” – 20 Sensational Vintage Tabloid Stories

“I Started a High School Sex Riot!” – 20 Sensational Vintage Tabloid Stories

There's nothing new under the sun. Today's tabloids may choose to concentrate on celebs more ...
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British Actors Just Before They Became Famous

British Actors Just Before They Became Famous

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10 Fabulous Maps Of The United States 1856-1932

10 Fabulous Maps Of The United States 1856-1932

SUSAN Schulton's Mapping The Nation is a wonderful book showcasing "the complex and beautiful maps ...
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The Five Coolest Electronic Toys of the 1970s

The Five Coolest Electronic Toys of the 1970s

  Today, we have iPhone apps and video game consoles…and thank goodness for them. But ...
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20 Outstanding Mid-Century Sci-Fi Pulp Covers

20 Outstanding Mid-Century Sci-Fi Pulp Covers

Midcentury Sci-Fi pulp was brimming with fantastic cover art.  Illustrated by some of the most ...
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Inside A Box of Negatives Discovered in Antarctica 1914-1917

Inside A Box of Negatives Discovered in Antarctica 1914-1917

These are photographic negatives left a century ago in Captain Scott’s last expedition base at ...
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Turtlenecks and Ugly Couches: The Montgomery Ward Catalog of 1978

Turtlenecks and Ugly Couches: The Montgomery Ward Catalog of 1978

  I'm actually glad they don't sell couches like this anymore. If they did, I'd ...
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The 5 Coolest Gadgets of 1980s Science Fiction TV that Aren’t from Star Trek or Doctor Who

The 5 Coolest Gadgets of 1980s Science Fiction TV that Aren’t from Star Trek or Doctor Who

  In the 1970s, the creators of science fiction television programming toiled to imagine what ...
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Trippy, Far-Out And Cool As Hell Posters From Detroit’s The Grande Ballroom (1967-68)

Trippy, Far-Out And Cool As Hell Posters From Detroit’s The Grande Ballroom (1967-68)

Between 1967 and 1968, Detroit's The Grande Ballroom, played host to some of the world's best acts. Gary ...
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1970s Lee Adverts from Denim Leisure Suit Hell

1970s Lee Adverts from Denim Leisure Suit Hell

In the mid-Seventies, Lee began a series of magazine ads all featuring a dude in ...
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The Rationing Years in Britain 1939 – 1954

The Rationing Years in Britain 1939 – 1954

  When Gallup, in 1947, asked the British public what would be their no-expense-spared fantasy ...
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7 Things Boys Loved in the 70s

7 Things Boys Loved in the 70s

Just think, in 40 years there will be an article about all the things kids ...
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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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