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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. ...

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Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

When the Netherlands was overrun by the Germans in 1940, the Dutch East Indies was cut ...

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A History Of Controversial Children’s Books: Sex, Racism And Obscene Rebellion

Our history of controversial children's books: sex, drugs, sambo's gay lover and anti-authoritarianism in the classroom. ...

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The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

At around eight o’clock on the Saturday evening of 14 April 1981, a Molotov cocktail ...

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Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

In the summer of 1928, Willy Michel (August 20, 1905 - March 1, 1976) began ...

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Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

In 1949, Dayalets created mascots to promote vitamins made by Abbott Laboratories, of Chicago, Illinois. ...

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Found By The Trash: A Box of Extraterrestrial Drawings And Notes

When he found a locked wooden box "smelling of basements and dampness" by the trash, Reddit ...

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A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

Ted Polhemus shares his personal photo archive. His life begins in the bosom of the ...

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The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

April 1941, and the Greyhound bus terminal at Washington DC is bustling. The waiting room ...

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Roman Totenberg And What The Holocaust Teaches Us About Giving ‘Freedom For The Thought We Hate’

Before the remarkable story of Roman Totenberg and his family's escape from the Nazis, a ...

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Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

Between 1937 and 1942, Farm Security Administration photographers Edwin Rosskam and John Collier recorded ...

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Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” ― Stephen King, Bag of ...

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