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Meet the Girl of Your Dreams… Just Add Air (Vintage Inflatable Love Doll Advertising)

Meet the Girl of Your Dreams… Just Add Air (Vintage Inflatable Love Doll Advertising)

Thumb through any adult magazine from mid-century through the seventies, and you're bound to land ...
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Physogs: The Print-Out-And-Play Photofit Game For Crime Families (1930)

Physogs: The Print-Out-And-Play Photofit Game For Crime Families (1930)

Who fancies a game of Physogs? It's great. We've got big photos of the cards from ...
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Overdrive Magazine (1972-1973): Voice of the American Trucker

Overdrive Magazine (1972-1973): Voice of the American Trucker

In the 1950s, American kids idolized cowboys - in the 1970s it was truckers.  There ...
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Le Diable et Son Train – The Devil Goes Sharking In Paris (1951)

Le Diable et Son Train – The Devil Goes Sharking In Paris (1951)

  Le Diable et son Train (1951), by Jeanne Effel (12 February 1908, Paris - ...
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Lessons in Class: The 1961 Spiegel Catalog

Lessons in Class: The 1961 Spiegel Catalog

Seventies fashions were funky, eighties fashions were rad, but fashions from the early sixties were straight-up ...
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Stevie Nicks And Abba’s Frida Star In This Women’s Self Defense Manual (1983)

Stevie Nicks And Abba’s Frida Star In This Women’s Self Defense Manual (1983)

In 1983 Stevie Nicks starred in Hands Off!: A Unique New System of Self Defence Against ...
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Anthony Burgess’s Lost Dictionary of Slang (1965)

Anthony Burgess’s Lost Dictionary of Slang (1965)

  Anthony Burgess enjoyed slang so much that in 1965 he accepted a commission to ...
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Who Were These Young Boxers In A Mid-Century Boston Gym?

Who Were These Young Boxers In A Mid-Century Boston Gym?

Leslie Jones (1886-1967) created a fabulous archive of almost 40,000 images from his days as a photojournalist, ...
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Salut Les Copains: Poptastic Playing Cards From 1960s

Salut Les Copains: Poptastic Playing Cards From 1960s

We are indebted to Patricia M. for showing us this fabulous set of playing cards ...
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Nirvana Play ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 18th, 1990): Photos

Nirvana Play ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 18th, 1990): Photos

On April 18th 1990, Nirvana performed at ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  JJ Gonson was there to record ...
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POW Kurt Vonnegut Writes Home From World War II: ‘The RAF Bombed Our Unmarked Train’

POW Kurt Vonnegut Writes Home From World War II: ‘The RAF Bombed Our Unmarked Train’

  After being taken prisoner by the Germans on December 19 1944, 22-year-old Kurt Vonnegut, wrote this letter. ...
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Sukia – The Dream Machine (1997)

Sukia – The Dream Machine (1997)

  My favourite group of the mid 90s were the antithesis of Britpop, which was ...
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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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