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Grete Stern’s Surreal Dreams Of Female Emancipation (1948 – 1951)

Grete Stern’s Surreal Dreams Of Female Emancipation (1948 – 1951)

In 1948, Argentinian women's magazine Idilio commissioned German-born Grete Stern (1904 - 1999) to illustrate the weekly ...
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When God Gave Shane MacGowan A Kebab (1978)

When God Gave Shane MacGowan A Kebab (1978)

  In 1978, The Nipple Erectors (featuring a pre-Pogues Shane MacGowan) and The Maniacs starred in ...
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The Incredible Miniature Worlds Of View-Master

The Incredible Miniature Worlds Of View-Master

  Hey everyone. This post is about all about View-Master and their amazing Miniature worlds, ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sketch Of An Odd Dinner With His Hero James Joyce (1928)

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sketch Of An Odd Dinner With His Hero James Joyce (1928)

  In 1928 author F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald and James Joyce shared a dinner in Paris. The meal ...
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The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany

The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany

"Everyone seemed to feel connected to the place and responsible for it, to be acting ...
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Eddie, Elvis & Gene: Let It Rock’s T-shirts Based On James Dean’s in Rebel Without A Cause (1972)

Eddie, Elvis & Gene: Let It Rock’s T-shirts Based On James Dean’s in Rebel Without A Cause (1972)

The series of shirts bearing the names of rock n roll idols were first produced for sale in the summer of 1972. ...
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Artist Makes Hieronymus Bosch Piñatas

Artist Makes Hieronymus Bosch Piñatas

LA-based artist Roberto Benavidez makes fabulous hand-made piñatas. Benavidez, a self-styled "half-breed, South Texan, queer, figurative ...
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A Look Inside British Invasion Obsessed Teen Magazines (1965-1966)

A Look Inside British Invasion Obsessed Teen Magazines (1965-1966)

We're about to take a walk through several issues of 16 Magazine from 1965-66 where ...
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The US Army’s Official ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Homosexual Policy Comic Book (2001)

The US Army’s Official ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Homosexual Policy Comic Book (2001)

In 2001, the US Army published Dignity & Respect: A Training Guide on Homosexual Conduct Policy. ...
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The Ever-Present “Lady in Red” in Vintage Pulp Fiction

The Ever-Present “Lady in Red” in Vintage Pulp Fiction

What was it that made pulp producers habitually put a girl in a red dress ...
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‘Kiss My Ass’: Bill Baxley’s 1976 Letter To The KKK

‘Kiss My Ass’: Bill Baxley’s 1976 Letter To The KKK

On February 28 1976, Bill Baxley (born June 27, 1941), Attorney General of Alabama (1971 ...
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Television in the Gutter – A Hilarious TV Guide Parody from 1977

Television in the Gutter – A Hilarious TV Guide Parody from 1977

The April 1977 issue of National Lampoon declares: "Producers have no taste, networks make fortunes, ...
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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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