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Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

  Author Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) and Gertrude Stein (February 3, ...
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A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

Let's have a look inside the rooms of 38 U.S. hotels and motels from the late ...
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Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

  Have fun before the bittersweet end of summer, when school, work and the family departing ...
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Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Ralph Ginzburg (editor) and Herb Lubalin's (art director; creator of the gorgeous Avant Garde typeface) Avant Garde magazine ran ...
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Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

  I am a tattoo artist, as such I won my fame, And I’ve certainly ...
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Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

  In his 1995 essay Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco looked at how "fascist" lost its meaning ...
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Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

  In 1633 Chinese printer Hu Zhengyan used the douban technique to produce what is ...
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A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

These postcards take us back to France in the 1890s. Through the wonder of Photochrom coloring, we ...
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Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Pulled from the vast retro-archives of Flashbak, here are a miscellany of vintage images, primarily ...
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Phallic Innuendo A-Go Go : Vintage Images of Suspiciously Phallic Nature

Phallic Innuendo A-Go Go : Vintage Images of Suspiciously Phallic Nature

I've whipped-out a motherload of vintage images containing suspicious phallic connotations, all spread across the face ...
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Soho Italianate: Gordon Moore’s Adverts for Vince Man’s Shop in Ark Magazine 1957

Soho Italianate: Gordon Moore’s Adverts for Vince Man’s Shop in Ark Magazine 1957

This advert for Vince Man’s Shop – the small Soho boutique which sparked the modernisation ...
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Wonderful Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1950s

Wonderful Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1950s

All we know about these photos of London in the 1950s is that they were probably taken ...
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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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