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Test Your Patriotism: how artists tested their value to the US in 1963

Test Your Patriotism: how artists tested their value to the US in 1963

TEST Your Patriotism with the Intelligence Centre Inc., New York, and stand a chance to ...
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Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks and “FREE DR Who Badges!”

Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks and “FREE DR Who Badges!”

Flashbak to the breakfasts of yesterday with Kellogg's Sugar Smacks and "FREE DR Who Badges!" John ...
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1970s: Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks and “FREE DR Who Badges!”

1970s: Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks and “FREE DR Who Badges!”

FLASHBACK to the breakfasts of yestedday with Kellogg's Sugar Smacks and "FREE DR Who Badges!" ...
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How I Killed The Tiger – Being An Account of My Encounter With A Royal Bengal Tiger: Pictures From a 1902 Hunt

How I Killed The Tiger – Being An Account of My Encounter With A Royal Bengal Tiger: Pictures From a 1902 Hunt

IN the early 20th Century, tiger hunting was all the rage. King George V went looking ...
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1951 manual: How To Use a Dial Telephone

1951 manual: How To Use a Dial Telephone

IN 1951: anyone uncertain of how to use a telephone was being educated: (more…)
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The Mickey Mouse gasmask was utterly terrifying in 1942 – and it still is

The Mickey Mouse gasmask was utterly terrifying in 1942 – and it still is

WAR is utterly terrifying. It's ugly. But in 1942, T.W. Smith, Jr., owner of the Sun ...
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The Phone Relief Ultimate Hands-Free Headset (1990s)

The Phone Relief Ultimate Hands-Free Headset (1990s)

In the early 1990s the world was in peril. Telephones were falling into pies, to ...
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Things that existed: the Phone Relief Ultimate Hands-Free Headset

Things that existed: the Phone Relief Ultimate Hands-Free Headset

IN the early 1990s, the world was in peril. Telephones were falling into pies, to ...
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This 1950s safety manual was called It’s Great to Be Alive! (aka: when bicycles attack!)

This 1950s safety manual was called It’s Great to Be Alive! (aka: when bicycles attack!)

IN the 1950s, the powers that be created a comic book to tell kids what ...
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The Coca Cola Swastika

The Coca Cola Swastika

IN 1925, the Swastika was the symbol of go-ahead, thrusting futurism.  Coca Cola tapped into ...
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October 1985: Morrissey and Pete Burns were ‘The Very Odd Couple’

October 1985: Morrissey and Pete Burns were ‘The Very Odd Couple’

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In 1981 technology stopped the ‘Arctic region becoming equatorial and the tropics suddenly changed to polar temperature’

In 1981 technology stopped the ‘Arctic region becoming equatorial and the tropics suddenly changed to polar temperature’

IN 1881, the London St James's Gazette reported on the end of life on Earth. ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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