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Artist Recycles Antique Tech Into Intricate Steampunk Spiders

Artist Recycles Antique Tech Into Intricate Steampunk Spiders

For Budapest-based artist Peter Szucsy everything old is new again. His spiders and crabs are made from old watches medical equipment and cameras. ...
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My Horn Don’t Dig Those Race Troubles – When White Supremacists Bombed Louis Armstrong

My Horn Don’t Dig Those Race Troubles – When White Supremacists Bombed Louis Armstrong

The noise from the dynamite reverberated around the Jacob Building, echoing under the balconies and the barrelled ceiling. A woman half a mile away heard it. ...
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Independence Day In Vale Oregon, 1941

Independence Day In Vale Oregon, 1941

The faces, fashions and style in Lee's photographs are suggestive of a monoculture, a small town where things and people are in their right place and fit there. ...
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Nick Peacock’s Hot Pix Volume Two: More Nightclubbing from Atlantis, Glasgow – November 1990

Nick Peacock’s Hot Pix Volume Two: More Nightclubbing from Atlantis, Glasgow – November 1990

The Sub Club, Glasgow, Saturday night 1990. The dancefloor is crammed. People up, joyous, hands in the air, entranced by the music. It's a club night called Atlantis. ...
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Buy Prints Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada gave us calaveras, representations of the human skeleton seen in Mexico's Day of the Dead ...
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Flu Masks From 1918-1919

Flu Masks From 1918-1919

In 1918, influenza, the so-called Spanish Flu, or 91918H1N1, to give its proper name, claimed the lives of more than 50 million people in just 15 months. Masks were part of the drive to beat it ...
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What Kind of Fool was He? Anthony Newley In ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’

What Kind of Fool was He? Anthony Newley In ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’

Anthony Newley was a perfect fit for the lead role in The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963). Newley starred as Sammy Lee, a low-rent compere at a striptease club who's in hock to a Soho bookie. He has 24-hours to cough-up or else. ...
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Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

  In the early 20th Century, French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) took pictures of his ...
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A Photo Series Documents the Lives of Irish Travellers Outside Dublin in the Late 1960s

A Photo Series Documents the Lives of Irish Travellers Outside Dublin in the Late 1960s

From 1965 to 1971, Macweeney documented the lives of Irish Travellers, and in so doing became one of the foremost anthropologists of Traveller culture ...
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Remembering Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone Magazine’s First Staff Photographer

Remembering Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone Magazine’s First Staff Photographer

Baron Wolman was man behind some of the most exuberant, unguarded photography of rock’s biggest superstars. ...
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The Massive American Cars of 1970

The Massive American Cars of 1970

A look at ludicrously oversized American cars outsold two to one by small Japanese models ...
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New York City Nightclub Flyers from the 1980s

New York City Nightclub Flyers from the 1980s

For artists and performers it was a golden age with clubs needing to book events seven-days-a-week. ...
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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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