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Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Paul Colin, who died in 1985 a few days away from his 93rd birthday, was undoubtedly one of France’s greatest poster artists. ...
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Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

  On September 19, 1946, Myfanwy (Tyfanny) Williams wrote a letter to Albert Einstein (14 ...
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Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Russia from 1890 to 1907. The ...
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The Mars Gazette: An Early 20th Century Drug Dealer’s Journeys In Space

The Mars Gazette: An Early 20th Century Drug Dealer’s Journeys In Space

  The Mars Gazette is a booklet describing the journey of pitchman C. B. Hustler ...
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Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

In 1938, Rupprecht’s illustrations appeared in Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), an antisemitic book for German children, copies of which made their way into the classroom. ...
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The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

  New York City's grid system is not an exact science. Streets are not equally ...
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Bikinis on Record: 35 Album Cover Beach Girls of the 1960s-1980s

Bikinis on Record: 35 Album Cover Beach Girls of the 1960s-1980s

What better method to sell records than to put a young surfer girl on the ...
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Fantastic Old Japanese Posters Of Political Campaigns

Fantastic Old Japanese Posters Of Political Campaigns

These Japanese political posters from the mid and late 20th Century are fabulous. They skewer ...
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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 ...
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When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

The United States. Office of War Information took photographs of the movements and fighting, including these pictures of the natives risking life and limb to aid the Allied troops. ...
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Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books

Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books

Look through about any school science textbook today and they are absolutely brimming with glossy ...
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The Artist Who Unlocked King Tutankhamun’s Tomb And Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

The Artist Who Unlocked King Tutankhamun’s Tomb And Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

In the 1920s artist Douglas MacPherson shone a light into the darkness. He unlocked King Tutankhamun's ...
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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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