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The Velvet Underground As Peanuts Characters

The Velvet Underground As Peanuts Characters

  Working as the manager for up-and-coming New York band The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol ...
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16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

  Marcel Proust was an onanist of no little enthusiasm. His father thought that too much ...
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Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage – Book Covers

Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage – Book Covers

Story of O, or Histoire d’O as it was originally published in 1954, was written by ...
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In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble

In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble

  For the Harper's Bazaar Spring 1963 issue, Melvin Sokolsky (born New York City, 1938) reworked a ...
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Thirty-Four Brilliant West Berlin Postcards from the 1960s and 70s

Thirty-Four Brilliant West Berlin Postcards from the 1960s and 70s

It was on August 13, 1961 when the East German communists started to set up ...
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Movie Theater Marquees from the 1950s-1970s

Movie Theater Marquees from the 1950s-1970s

We've looked at grindhouse and x-rated marquees in 25 Sleazy Movie Marquees From The Golden Age ...
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Watch All Of Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films (1975)

Watch All Of Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films (1975)

In 1975, the BBC hired Mike Leigh to create a series of Five-Minute Films. Leigh, a master ...
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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. ...
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Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Look out for flying Italian snacks!  Here is a dolce e delizioso compendium of junk food ...
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Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

Prisoners’ Drawings From Japanese Camps in The Occupied Dutch East Indies (1942-1945)

  When the Netherlands was overrun by the Germans in 1940, the Dutch East Indies was cut ...
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Yesterday’s Girl Watchers: Vintage Images of Guys Catching a Look

Yesterday’s Girl Watchers: Vintage Images of Guys Catching a Look

Well, fellas, the old days when women wore modest coverings and long dresses are over.  The ...
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Mardi Gras Floats of 1896: The Mystic Krewe of Comus’ Visions of Other Worlds

Mardi Gras Floats of 1896: The Mystic Krewe of Comus’ Visions of Other Worlds

  In 1857, six New Orleans businessmen formed the city's first Mardi Gras krewe – ...
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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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