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Evidence of Life : Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977

Evidence of Life : Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe ...
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Photographs of Camden In 1986

Photographs of Camden In 1986

This is what Peter Marshall saw as he mooched around Camden c. 1986 ...
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Buy Prints Fabulous Photos of Lunchtime Dancing at the Top Rank Dancehall on Charing Cross Road in 1963.

Fabulous Photos of Lunchtime Dancing at the Top Rank Dancehall on Charing Cross Road in 1963.

In the basement of The Astoria Theatre was a ballroom and like many throughout Britain at the time it was known as the Top Rank Dance Hall. In 1963 it held teenage lunchtime dance sessions hosted by young DJs. As you can see, it would be a few years before London could be described as anything close to 'swinging'. ...
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Christmas In Washington DC 1941 – Shopping At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime And Waiting For The Greyhound Bus Home

Christmas In Washington DC 1941 – Shopping At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime And Waiting For The Greyhound Bus Home

  Christmas Eve 1941. John Vachon (1914 - 1975) has been detailed by the Farm ...
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Buy Prints Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Bob Hyde's lush photographs of London's West End are quintessentially 1960s ...
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Barbara Windsor: A Life in Photos

Barbara Windsor: A Life in Photos

British Actress Dame Barbara Windsor was 83 when she succumbed to Alzheimer's at a London care home. Dame Barbara is best remembered as the star of nine of the 31 Carry On films - and it's hard to think of the series of saucy comedies without her. ...
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A Photo Tour of Deptford In the 1980s

A Photo Tour of Deptford In the 1980s

In the 1980s Peter Marshall walked around Deptford in South London. This is what he saw.... ...
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Love And Blood :  Joan Ruppert Finds Her Father In The Shoebox Negatives

Love And Blood : Joan Ruppert Finds Her Father In The Shoebox Negatives

Joan Ruppert opened a shoebox full of photographs and travelled back in time. I wanted ...
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The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

In 1923, Dorothy Margaret Macleay, 14, and her younger sister Gertrude Maxine, 12, began producing a monthly newspaper. They called it the Rocking P Gazette, after the family's Rocking P ranch ...
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Walter Molino’s Amazing True Story Death Scenes : Italian Illustrator’s Mid-Century Art Must Be Seen To Be Believed

Walter Molino’s Amazing True Story Death Scenes : Italian Illustrator’s Mid-Century Art Must Be Seen To Be Believed

  Walter Molino (5 November 1915 – 8 December 1997) was an Italian comics artist ...
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Guy Fawkes Is Innocent – Graffiti In 1980s London

Guy Fawkes Is Innocent – Graffiti In 1980s London

In the 1980s Peter Marshall walked the streets of London photographing the things we see but fail to notice ...
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Lewis Hine’s Ethnographic Photographs of Balkan Peoples for the Red Cross Relief Efforts in 1919-1920

Lewis Hine’s Ethnographic Photographs of Balkan Peoples for the Red Cross Relief Efforts in 1919-1920

Lewis Hine's "extraordinary record of life in the Balkans during some of its darkest moments" ...
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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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