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Santa On Shrooms: A Trippy 1943 Comic Book

Santa On Shrooms: A Trippy 1943 Comic Book

Enjoy this 1943 comic book featuring a psychedelic mushroom chomping Santa Claus. It's sort of a bonkers take-off on Alice in Wonderland but with added Santa. ...
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‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s

‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s

These ads created during the years after WW2 were almost works of art and skilfully created by hand by wonderfully talented artists and illustrators who worked tirelessly for hours if not days to achieve almost perfect results. ...
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Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

In his forties, Peter Cushing had his first major success starring as Winston Smith in Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. Its huge success led to Cushing be cast as the Baron in Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein--it was the first of five occasions he would play the Baron. ...
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Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Pioneering Photographs of New York City’s 1970s and 80s Graffiti Scene

Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Pioneering Photographs of New York City’s 1970s and 80s Graffiti Scene

The origins of hip hop’s graffiti scene in the crumbling, decaying boroughs of NYC in the 1970s have by now become the stuff of legend ...
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Better Than Sherlock Holmes: Detective Alphonse Bertillon’s Crime Scene Photographs

Better Than Sherlock Holmes: Detective Alphonse Bertillon’s Crime Scene Photographs

According to his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes only had one real rival--the French police detective Alphonse Bertillon. ...
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Secret Movies: Judy Linn photographs Patti Smith

Secret Movies: Judy Linn photographs Patti Smith

They met each other through their boyfriends, New York, the summer of '68. Judy Linn ...
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Found Photos of A Mid-Century Family Christmas

Found Photos of A Mid-Century Family Christmas

Wonderful famsnapshots from a wodnerful time of the year ...
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Pictures of Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and 1980s

Pictures of Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and 1980s

These photographs were taken by the late  Jimmy Forsyth and Robert Hope who in the early 1970s took out a bank loan to buy a Rolleiflex camera. ...
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Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

“I am God in a body,” wrote Vaslav Nijinsky (1879-1944) in his famous Diary. “Everyone has this feeling, but no one uses it.” ...
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Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 essentially to document the adverse effects of modern life on the environment... ...
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Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Hoffa, the granite-faced Midwestern trucking union president with a flexible relationship to ethics might have seemed like an unlikely famous figure just a few years ago. Now, it’s easy to imagine his broad, bulldog mug and combative style, dodging and weaving in congressional hearings in 2019 to cover for his connections. ...
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The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

Found photos of an American town's 1950s get together ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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