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Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong

Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong

“I told you I would just give you trouble” - Suzie Wong ...
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Holidays On Display: Selling Christmas In Vintage Postcards

Holidays On Display: Selling Christmas In Vintage Postcards

Most of these Christmas postcards were collected for but not used in my book Holidays ...
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The Groovy Age of Flight: Another Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

The Groovy Age of Flight: Another Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

We take another look at flight attendants back when they were basically cocktail waitresses of the sky ...
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Before Wal-Mart Conquered America: Local Mom & Pop Ads from the 1970s

Before Wal-Mart Conquered America: Local Mom & Pop Ads from the 1970s

In 1970, every town in the US had its Main Street, complete with locally owned ...
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Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

  Tyco Toys was incorporated as Mantua Metal Products in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey, the metalworks ...
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Japan’s Mermaid Pearl Divers In Photos – 1950s

Japan’s Mermaid Pearl Divers In Photos – 1950s

  Diving for pearls in Japan is a job for women. In these photos from ...
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The Story of The Video Shot At 2:30am Inside A 7-11 Near Disney World – 1987

The Story of The Video Shot At 2:30am Inside A 7-11 Near Disney World – 1987

A perfect time capsule from the '80s ...
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Heartbreaking Photographs of Child Labour in the United States by Lewis Hine

Heartbreaking Photographs of Child Labour in the United States by Lewis Hine

"There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work." -- Lewis Hine, 1908 ...
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Tommy Roberts: Mr Freedom’s Extraordinary Store Displays

Tommy Roberts: Mr Freedom’s Extraordinary Store Displays

"My philosophy was, and still is, this: if you run a shop you put on a show" - Tommy Roberts ...
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Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to" - Dorothy Parker ...
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Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

"My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going" — Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
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Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson and the Fall of British Leyland

Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson and the Fall of British Leyland

The Morris Marina suffered from an affliction common to far too many British cars of that era – total contempt for the customer. ...
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