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Vintage Snapshots of Dinosaurs

Vintage Snapshots of Dinosaurs

Robert E Jackson shares snapshots from One Million Years BC (or thereabouts) ...
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The Battle of Cable Street: When 20,000 Antifascist Workers Fought Back Against the Police and Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936

The Battle of Cable Street: When 20,000 Antifascist Workers Fought Back Against the Police and Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936

On Sunday 4 October 1936 a revolutionary spirit powered protesters in their historic clash with fascists in London's East End ...
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1980s Snapshots of New York City’s 42nd Street

1980s Snapshots of New York City’s 42nd Street

Little “nifties” from the Fifties, Innocent and sweet; Sexy ladies from the Eighties, Who are indiscreet. – 42nd Street by Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren ...
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Buy Prints When Gas was 15c a gallon – US Filling Stations 1937-1942

When Gas was 15c a gallon – US Filling Stations 1937-1942

The first proper drive-in service station opened in Pennsylvania in 1913 - “Unlike earlier simple curbside gasoline filling stations, an architect purposefully designed the pagoda-style brick facility [that] offered free air, water, crankcase service and tire and tube installation." ...
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Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s

Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s

In the 1970s and 1980s, gangs in Chicago advertised their presence and membership on business cards. This was criminality with a dash of style and wit. ...
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East London Hairdressers in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s

East London Hairdressers in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s

Peter Marshall's photographs of East London hairdressers ...
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How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the Straight Press

How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the Straight Press

The International Times of London wielded its irreverent, satirical, often juvenile sense of humor as a weapon against real censorship and state repression ...
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An Introduction of Swedish Gymnastics for Women by Heinrich Hamman – c. 1902 – 1909

An Introduction of Swedish Gymnastics for Women by Heinrich Hamman – c. 1902 – 1909

Women wearing the "new gym clothes" perform exercises in a Hamburg gymnasium ...
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Doyle's main source for the famous detective was his medical tutor at university, Dr Joseph Bell, as he explained in 1892 ...
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A Walk Around Newham, East London in 1991

A Walk Around Newham, East London in 1991

The 1980s regeneration of London's Docklands never quite reached Newham ...
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The Story of the Cover: The Iconic Op-Art Designs for Fontana Modern Masters, 1971

The Story of the Cover: The Iconic Op-Art Designs for Fontana Modern Masters, 1971

It was the 1960s, the Beatles were changing music, youngsters were changing politics, the old standards were no longer relevant. ...
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The Rocket Book – A Fabulous Illustrated Children’s Story from 1912

The Rocket Book – A Fabulous Illustrated Children’s Story from 1912

The upward progress of a rocket, lit in the basement by the janitor's son, causes some strange situations as it passes through 20 floors of apartments! ...
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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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