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Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

In 1942 Leslie Jones, a Staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler took pictures of locals supporting the fight by collecting scrap metal, cloth, cooking fat, rubber and anything else that could help. ...

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The Batchelors Foods ‘Soup-Opera’ ads from the 1950s

The Batchelors Foods adverts of the 1950s put across the idea that their canned products, although quick to prepare for the modern housewife, were actually the height of sophisticated dining. The premise seemed to be that a simple tin of peas meant minimal cooking which of course gave the housewife more time to look glamorous for her husband when he returned from work. ...

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Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Anti-Semitism "is nothing but a wrench to unscrew, bit by bit, the whole machinery of our civilization" ...

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‘Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight’ – Glorious Pictures of the Skegness Butlin’s

The first ever Billy Butlin holiday camp was opened at Skegness in 1936 - it still exists today. ...

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Photographs of an Austere and Dour Manchester from 1963

Manchester, England in 1963 - Coronation Street first aired in 1960; a season ticket to see Manchester United cost £8.50; in 1961, the City of Manchester’s population was 662,000 ...

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Stacking Vintage Kodachrome Slides to Create Strange Stories

Artist Ian Trask delved into a collection of thousands of 35mm slide photographs to juxtapose the found imagery into surreal scenes. ...

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Technicians at the Government of Alberta Dairy and Food Canada Laboratory (1970)

A great collection of color portraits of staff at a Canadian lab in 1970 ...

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Yarnvertising: DIY Fashion Adverts of the 1970s

People don't appreciate these days the level of DIY fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. Women back then knew how to sew and magically make stuff out of balls of yarn - it was almost a required skill. Then, seemingly overnight, it became a lost art... ...

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Extraordinary Photographs of a Captured WW1 U-Boat Submarine (1918)

Ever wanted to see inside a WW1 German U-Boat? Well now you can. These photographs, taken in 1918, show the interiors of a UB 110 submarine just prior to being scrapped. ...

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Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

William McCalla, a botanist and teacher, made over 1,000 hand-coloured lantern slides of Albertan flowers ...

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Tormented And Alone: The Neurotic Dreams of the Romance Comics Women

In comic after comic, with rarely an exception, you have the requisite scene of the beautiful female lying in bed pining desperately over some clueless oaf. ...

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Doreen Spooner the First ‘Camera Girl’ on ‘Testosterone Alley’

Probably the first female photographer to have a staff job for a popular British newspaper, her Daily Mirror byline was 'By Camera Girl Doreen Spooner'. She hated it. ...

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