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Seventies Sweethearts: 50 Found Photos of Young Love in the Early 1970s

Seventies Sweethearts: 50 Found Photos of Young Love in the Early 1970s

Amid massive societal upheaval, love kept on truckin' in the 1970s. It was an interesting ...
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Buy Prints Celestial Illustrations from Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy – 1849-1850

Celestial Illustrations from Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy – 1849-1850

A wonderful book to help us better understand heavens ...
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Mr Steinberg’s Model: A 1940s Fetish Photography Mystery

Mr Steinberg’s Model: A 1940s Fetish Photography Mystery

In Newcastle on 22nd of January 1949, 'Mr Steinberg’s Model' was swaddled and tied up. We ...
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Faceless Men Behind Copper Masks At The Tin Nose Shop (1918)

Faceless Men Behind Copper Masks At The Tin Nose Shop (1918)

Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), an American sculptor, ran the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris. There ...
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25 Amazing 1970s Album Advertisements

25 Amazing 1970s Album Advertisements

Taken from pages of old music magazines like Creem, Circus, Hit Parader, Smash Hits and Billboard, ...
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Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternate DEATHSTYLE (1986)

Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternate DEATHSTYLE (1986)

Hereunder are extracts from a 1986 208-page report on gay lifestyle and related concerns. Homosexuality: ...
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Photos Of The Reading Festival In The 1970s

Photos Of The Reading Festival In The 1970s

The Reading Festival is a mainstay of the British music calendar. The event can be ...
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Instant Sideburns! The Odd 1968 Fashion For False Facial Foliage

Instant Sideburns! The Odd 1968 Fashion For False Facial Foliage

In the September 1968 issue of Playboy magazine, there is this wonderfully strange fashion spread ...
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David Parkinson Shoots Acme Attractions For Club International (1975)

David Parkinson Shoots Acme Attractions For Club International (1975)

I’ve been enjoying researching materials relating to the late photographer David Parkinson for a feature ...
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Coal Mining Promised Sex, Skiing And A Job for Life In This 1975 Film

Coal Mining Promised Sex, Skiing And A Job for Life In This 1975 Film

In 1975, Britain's National Coal Board launched a recruitment drive with the slogan 'People will always ...
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Operating a Haunted House: A Vintage How-To Guide

Operating a Haunted House: A Vintage How-To Guide

So, I came upon this wonderfully illustrated how-to guide called How to Operate a Financially ...
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36 Highlights From The ‘Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library’

36 Highlights From The ‘Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library’

Highlights from the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, a no-longer-functioning Lawrence-based collective, are many. The ...
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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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