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Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

In 1948 the car must have looked like the future to many a prospective auto buyer—that is, had Davis ever delivered on his promises to mass produce the vehicle. ...
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Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

In 1960 a teenager rebelled against the cane at his British school ...
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Ronald McDonald Adventures in Scouting : A Troubling 1970s Magazine

Ronald McDonald Adventures in Scouting : A Troubling 1970s Magazine

In the 1970s Ronald McDonald was scouting for girls and boys... ...
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Living in Color: The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Living in Color: The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Here's a color version of Robert E. Jackson black and white Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood. ...
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Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

"I was free to encounter life. I was open and didn't have any agenda. There ...
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Buy Prints The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Ponting, who died in 1935, is best known for photographing Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole in 1911/12 ...
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Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

It's a student party in Wolseley Street in Belfast - what would be called the ...
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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

  TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was ...
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Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Nearly everything about the Los Angeles appealed to him—the endless sprawl, the two-story apartment houses with outdoor stairways, the hot rods, the jazz clubs, the billboards, the sunrises and sunsets, the boulevards that led to the ocean. ...
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Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

  When Spangles were introduced to the British public in 1950 sweets and sugar were ...
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The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

"This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up..." ...
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Austin Osman Spare: ‘A Book of Satyrs’ 1906

Austin Osman Spare: ‘A Book of Satyrs’ 1906

An artist, writer, and musician--he played clarinet in a jazz band. Spare was also an occultist and a magician and has been described by writer Alan Moore as “possibly the greatest English magician of the twentieth century.” ...
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