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One October Day In Hagerstown Maryland 1937

One October Day In Hagerstown Maryland 1937

A look around a small US city on a Saturday in the 1930s ...
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The 1939 New York World’s Fair Invents the Future: Welcome to ‘The World of Tomorrow’

The 1939 New York World’s Fair Invents the Future: Welcome to ‘The World of Tomorrow’

As the US emerged from the Great Depression, a utopian spirit took hold, a sense that technology, design, and global cooperation would bring about 'the World of Tomorrow' ...
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From Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1961

From Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1961

“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation” - Voltaire ...
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‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket

‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket

In the US, there is a gigantic supermarket seemingly everywhere you look.  A Wal-Mart Super-Center ...
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Sinister Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots Of The British at Play

Sinister Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots Of The British at Play

Weird, sinister and fun snapshots of mid-Century Britons doing stuff! ...
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Watch M.C. Escher Make His Impossible Mathematical Art In This 1971 Film

Watch M.C. Escher Make His Impossible Mathematical Art In This 1971 Film

'Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check' - MC Escher ...
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Programmed for Lameness: Awful Comic Book Covers Featuring Robots

Programmed for Lameness: Awful Comic Book Covers Featuring Robots

What exactly does this Beverly Hillbillies robot intend to do with Granny once he’s taken her away? Let's try to find out... ...
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Gorgeous Art Nouveau Posters from La Belle Epoque

Gorgeous Art Nouveau Posters from La Belle Epoque

The explosion of creative activity in Europe and the U.S. from the end of the ...
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Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

'I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis' - H.P.Lovercraft ...
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‘Greetings from Nowhere’: 10 Vintage Postcards from Peculiar Lands of Disenchantment

‘Greetings from Nowhere’: 10 Vintage Postcards from Peculiar Lands of Disenchantment

Journey with us to the “Covered Bridge Capital of the World” and other old time holiday destinations ...
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Remembering the Scala Cinema: London’s All-Night ‘Country Club for Lunatics’

Remembering the Scala Cinema: London’s All-Night ‘Country Club for Lunatics’

‘The Scala had magic. It was like joining a very secret club, like a biker gang or something…' - John Waters ...
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‘Shoot The Curator’: John Frankland on Damien Hirst The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011

‘Shoot The Curator’: John Frankland on Damien Hirst The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011

'It’s quantity over quality, the wrong kind of banality' - John Frankland ...
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