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Fast Cars, Wide Roads, Blue Skies: Vintage Postcards From Across America

Fast Cars, Wide Roads, Blue Skies: Vintage Postcards From Across America

The broad roads full of tail-finned splendour are matched by the promise of wide open ...
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Sydney Skin : Tattoos And The Australian Venus – 1930s

Sydney Skin : Tattoos And The Australian Venus – 1930s

  The first edition of Pix magazine was published on 29 January 1938. Initially a ...
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Waugh, Waugh, Not Jaw, Jaw: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Best Books

Waugh, Waugh, Not Jaw, Jaw: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Best Books

Writer Duncan McLaren introduces us to a shared love of Evelyn Waugh ...
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When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

This might well be the last thing you read before The Bomb drops. Do not be afraid. Act now. ...
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Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Banned in Japan: when giant catfish shook the country ...
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Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

60 hobo signs, used in the Great Depression by transient working class men and women who traveled by train, looking for jobs and sustenance ...
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Moving People At Chicago’s Union Station In January 1943 by Jack Delano

Moving People At Chicago’s Union Station In January 1943 by Jack Delano

Jack Delano's honest and telling photographs of people coming and going at Chicago's Union Station ...
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Buy Prints ‘Filled with Intuitions and Conjectures’ – Bruno Schulz, the Man who Knew What he Didn’t Know

‘Filled with Intuitions and Conjectures’ – Bruno Schulz, the Man who Knew What he Didn’t Know

A man whose wonderful imagination was caught up in a ‘swarm of identities and nationalities’.  ...
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Inside the 80s and 90s New York Drag Clubs that Made RuPaul a Star

Inside the 80s and 90s New York Drag Clubs that Made RuPaul a Star

It was “a hedonistic, wild atmosphere because I think the police were too busy dealing with crime, that they didn’t have time or clubs weren’t much of a concern.” ...
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A Dutch Spy’s Photographs of the Liberation of the Netherlands – May 1945

A Dutch Spy’s Photographs of the Liberation of the Netherlands – May 1945

Menno Huizinga (October 28, 1907 - September 14, 1947) was a Dutch photographer working as a spy for the Resistance. He was then when the Germans surrendered ...
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The Inglorious History of King’s Cross and its Station – a haunt of Thieves and Murderers

The Inglorious History of King’s Cross and its Station – a haunt of Thieves and Murderers

When King’s Cross station opened on 14th October 1852 the building was greatly admired but in an era famed for the opposite the station was as practical and lacking of superfluous ornament as the locomotives it was made to house. ...
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The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!

The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!

John Varney, Sheffield 'Ace Face' replied 'are you kidding mate - the weekend starts here' and the slogan was born. ...
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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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