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Charmion – The ‘Disgusting’ Victorian-Era Strongwoman Who Stripped For Freedom

The sensational gymnast who became America's highest paid vaudeville star ...

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Exaggerated Fruit On Vintage Postcards – c.1910

Pictures of what are often called tall-tale postcards or exaggerated postcards ...

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Scrap Metal Sex – Ron Boise’s ‘Obscene’ Kama Sutra Sculptures

In 1964 art police swooped on a San Francisco gallery ...

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The Erotic Pictorialist Photography of Arthur F. Kales

'Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a photograph, as we do in Nature, atmosphere must be there.' - Alfred Stieglitz ...

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Russell Lee’s New Deal Visions of Depression-Era Rural America

Russell Lee documented more of America than anyone else ...

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High Times: Mary Jane Rathbun’s Marijuana Brownies

'If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy's window' - Mary Jane Rathbun ...

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The Occult Art of Alchemist Wilfried Sätty, Illustrator of the Psychedelic San Francisco 60s Scene

Wilfried Sätty, German occultist, illustrator, and collage artist who moved to San Francisco in the early 60s and associated with artists and bohemians of the Beat Generation ...

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Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

The combination paperback-only bookstore and literary publisher proved revolutionary in the 1950s and 60s. ...

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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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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 Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographed by Arnold Genthe, George R. Lawrence, and others, the photos reveal the vast extent of the devastation and the scale of the military relief effort. They also sometimes show the breakdown of civil order, as in photographs of soldiers looting during the fires. ...

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Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. ...

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