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Rainbow Dance: Len Lye’s 1930s Fabulous Short Films For The Post Office

Rainbow Dance: Len Lye’s 1930s Fabulous Short Films For The Post Office

  Public information films rarely looked better than New Zealand film artist Len Lye's 1930s ...
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Crowds And Queens Celebrate The Crowley, Louisiana, Rice Festival (October 4, 1938)

Crowds And Queens Celebrate The Crowley, Louisiana, Rice Festival (October 4, 1938)

On October 4, 1938 Crowley, Louisiana, celebrated the town's golden jubilee with a Rice Festival. Dreamt up ...
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First Time on Television! 1970s Movies Make Their TV Debut

First Time on Television! 1970s Movies Make Their TV Debut

Before Netflix, before DVD and VHS, before even HBO, once a movie left the theater, ...
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George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter

George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter

  On May 18 1944 George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair; 25 June 1903 – 21 ...
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Platforms: The Official Footwear of the ’70s

Platforms: The Official Footwear of the ’70s

If you think of iconic 1970s fashion, you think of bell-bottoms, wide collars, and the shoes ...
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WoodSwimmer: A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Film Of A Tree’s Story Made By Cutting Through Wood

WoodSwimmer: A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Film Of A Tree’s Story Made By Cutting Through Wood

WoodSwimmer is a look at wood. It's a film made by the creators painstakingly cutting through bits ...
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Valerie and Colin’s Wedding Reception – Southampton, 1972

Valerie and Colin’s Wedding Reception – Southampton, 1972

In 1972, Wedding of Colin R Vokes and Valerie G Cousens married at Southampton's Church ...
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The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts

The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts

"This is the city and I am one of the citizens, Whatever interests the rest ...
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Trucker Magazine Calendar Girls of the 1970s

Trucker Magazine Calendar Girls of the 1970s

We recently took a tour through the 1972-1973 issues of that glorious trucker magazine, Overdrive. ...
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Retro Rockabilly Gangs Of 1980s France

Retro Rockabilly Gangs Of 1980s France

  It's Normandy, France, 1982. Gil Rigoulet is taking intimate, fly-on-the-wall photographs of youths reigniting louche Rockabilly ...
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Rabble-rousing Caroline Coon, Eric The Tramp and the Oz obscenity trial

Rabble-rousing Caroline Coon, Eric The Tramp and the Oz obscenity trial

Photographer Joe Stevens has dug deep into his archive for these three gems from his ...
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‘Groovy’ Pictures of London in 1966

‘Groovy’ Pictures of London in 1966

More photos from Glen F's collection on Flickr. This time from London in 1966. It ...
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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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