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Riding The New York Subway – 1977-1984

Riding The New York Subway – 1977-1984

“When I get home, I say, ‘Thank God I made it’“ - Subway passenger to the New York Times - Bronx, NYC 1979 ...
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Found Photos Of Mid-Century New Year’s Eve Celebrations

Found Photos Of Mid-Century New Year’s Eve Celebrations

'For auld lang syne, my jo / For auld lang syne / We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet / For auld lang syne' - Robert Burns ...
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New Year’s Day in New York City – Sleeping Off The Booze (1938 – 1952)

New Year’s Day in New York City – Sleeping Off The Booze (1938 – 1952)

“The people of the United States spend exactly as much money on booze alone as on the space program” Isaac Asimov (1969) ...
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A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy

A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy

"I looked through my camera and this face looked back at me and I just just went 'wow'. It was the effect of her looking back at me, I can't find the adjective to describe it. I think it was the eyes, she had such presence. She was gawky but she had a sort of elegance." Barry Lategan ...
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The Day Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde Visited Lords in 1964

The Day Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde Visited Lords in 1964

Almost certainly the most exciting thing that happened at the home of cricket in 1966 was Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde turning up on 29th September to film a scene from John Schlesinger’s Swinging London satire Darling. ...
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A Wonderful and Extraordinary Collection of Old Hotel ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs

A Wonderful and Extraordinary Collection of Old Hotel ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs

“The first widespread use was probably in the beginning of the 20th century, mostly in the U.S., in some of the more prestigious hotels where discretion was the better part of valour,” says Edoardo. “DND signs have also been known for covering up crimes, or at least, delaying the discovery..." ...
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The Fashionable and the Fast – Skiing Photographs by Slim Aarons

The Fashionable and the Fast – Skiing Photographs by Slim Aarons

"I don't do fashion, I take photos of people in their own clothes and that becomes fashion." ...
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Raping Levitan: Inside The Jewish Department Store Where Nazis In Paris Bought Stolen Goods

Raping Levitan: Inside The Jewish Department Store Where Nazis In Paris Bought Stolen Goods

The Nazis were thieves. Having rounded up the Jews of Paris and marked them for murder, the Germans and their French lickspittles enacted Möbel Aktion, emptying homes once vacated by Jews and selling the spoils. ...
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“Consumate Actress – Hampered by Beauty” – Glorious Pictures of Vivien Leigh

“Consumate Actress – Hampered by Beauty” – Glorious Pictures of Vivien Leigh

"People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap, if you really want to look like the part you’re playing, which isn’t necessarily like you." ...
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London Waterloo Station in Pictures

London Waterloo Station in Pictures

We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it. - Three Men in a Boat' ...
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A Merry Mix of Christmas Song Performances from the 1960s-80s

A Merry Mix of Christmas Song Performances from the 1960s-80s

Here is an eclectic hodgepodge of Christmas song performances from decades pasts ranging from Dutch ...
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Listen To Bob Dylan Reading Twas The Night Before Christmas (2006)

Listen To Bob Dylan Reading Twas The Night Before Christmas (2006)

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. ...
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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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