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Florence Ilott Races Big Ben (1934)

Florence Ilott Races Big Ben (1934)

I want to tell you about a remarkable woman that you almost certainly haven't heard of... ...
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The ‘Oooo Face’: That Puckered Look Every Woman Was Making Mid-Century

The ‘Oooo Face’: That Puckered Look Every Woman Was Making Mid-Century

If you’ve seen old advertisements from the 1950s, then you know exactly what the “Oooo Face” is ...
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Ed and Kath’s Wedding Day in Bermondsey (1953)

Ed and Kath’s Wedding Day in Bermondsey (1953)

A reader sent us these great photos of her dad on his wedding day... ...
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The Paint By Numbers Phenomenon Made Dan Robbins The Most Exhibited Artist In The World

The Paint By Numbers Phenomenon Made Dan Robbins The Most Exhibited Artist In The World

“They were considered something pretty wonderful and serious décor” ...
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Yesterday’s Buffet: A Look at the Mid-Century Smörgåsbord

Yesterday’s Buffet: A Look at the Mid-Century Smörgåsbord

The buffet’s time had truly arrived in post-WWII America. Enjoying an unprecedented economic boom, the “table of plenty” fit perfectly within this period.  Gone were the Depression-era days of meager portions, and gone were the WWII days of rationing.  In Cold War America, tables bent beneath the weight of the mighty buffet. ...
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1960s Las Vegas

1960s Las Vegas

No-one seeking authenticity will find it in modern Las Vegas’s laminated neon expanse of human endeavour through the ages. There’s the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, a version of Venice’s Grand Canal upstairs on the second floor, the New York skyline and the legend of Camelot turned into a plug-and-play fibreglass Excalibur. ...
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Patti Smith’s Horses And Pink Tea Cup Eggs With Robert Mapplethorpe

Patti Smith’s Horses And Pink Tea Cup Eggs With Robert Mapplethorpe

“I flung my jacket over my shoulder, Frank Sinatra style. I was full of references. He was full of light and shadow” - Patti Smith ...
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‘A Good Round Figure’: A 1950 Beach Fashion Magazine Spread

‘A Good Round Figure’: A 1950 Beach Fashion Magazine Spread

The French "Bikini" bathing suit has just about disappeared (it never quite fitted Amer­ican figures and American modesty) to be replaced by an earlier popular import from France, the maillot. ...
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Things On The Doorstep: 30 Great Halloween Snapshots

Things On The Doorstep: 30 Great Halloween Snapshots

'We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be' - Kurt Vonnegut - 'Mother Night' ...
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The Age of Hammer Horror: Classic Posters From the British Genre Giant

The Age of Hammer Horror: Classic Posters From the British Genre Giant

“If we saw the logo of Hammer Films,” remarked Martin Scorsese, “we knew it was a very special picture. We knew it was a certain kind of film. A surprising experience, usually—and shocking.” ...
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Halloween Party Yesteryear: 20 Found Photos from the 1950s -1980s

Halloween Party Yesteryear: 20 Found Photos from the 1950s -1980s

Let's dust off a stack of 20 old found photographs featuring Halloween celebrations. From awkward office festivities to Hallow's Eve dances, from barroom bashes to neighborhood costume parties, we're taking a look at how adults celebrated the holiday in decades past.  Enjoy. ...
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Sin City! Pictures of Las Vegas 1906-1971

Sin City! Pictures of Las Vegas 1906-1971

'For a loser Vegas is the meanest town on earth'. HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ...
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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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