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The Stupendous Old Cincinnati Library (1874 – 1955)

The Stupendous Old Cincinnati Library (1874 – 1955)

Built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house, the Old Cincinnati Library was a ...
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The Visiting Massage: A Thriving Business in 1980s Heathrow

The Visiting Massage: A Thriving Business in 1980s Heathrow

What's the story with all the "visiting massage" services in British adult magazines from the ...
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The Krystal Counter Code: A 1954 Fast Food Server Guide

The Krystal Counter Code: A 1954 Fast Food Server Guide

  In 1954, Krystal Company presented a breezy educational film detailing how staff at its ...
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How To Make A Peep Show And Other Ways To Dress Shop Windows (1899)

How To Make A Peep Show And Other Ways To Dress Shop Windows (1899)

Illustrations from Nearly Three Hundred Ways To Dress Shop Windows by James Marriot, published in ...
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Austerity Measures: Seeing Canary Wharf Through A Kodak Box Brownie

Austerity Measures: Seeing Canary Wharf Through A Kodak Box Brownie

The intriguing project from photographer Bradley Richards is Austerity Measures, a hand-bound and printed collection ...
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Coal Mining Promised Sex, Skiing And A Job for Life In This 1975 Film

Coal Mining Promised Sex, Skiing And A Job for Life In This 1975 Film

In 1975, Britain's National Coal Board launched a recruitment drive with the slogan 'People will always ...
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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

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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William Burroughs Terrorises Soho, Sex And Scientology On Dr. Dent’s Magic Formula

William Burroughs Terrorises Soho, Sex And Scientology On Dr. Dent’s Magic Formula

  Maggs has issued a scratch catalogue of William Burroughs’ photographs of London 1972 – ...
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Making Globes In 1955

Making Globes In 1955

British Pathé has published its vast collection of 85,000 historical films dating from 1896 to 1976 ...
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The Pain Of Child Labor: Amputees And Injuries From When Life Was Cheap (1908 – 1924)

The Pain Of Child Labor: Amputees And Injuries From When Life Was Cheap (1908 – 1924)

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) ...
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Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Montreal, Canada, 1949. Le Devoir publishes a series of articles decrying lax policing and the spread ...
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Workers On The Roof Of Chattanooga’s First Department Store (1898)

Workers On The Roof Of Chattanooga’s First Department Store (1898)

Charles Gustavus Walline (1873 - 1943), a worker at Chattanooga, Tennessee, department store D.B. Lovemans ...
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