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A History Of Controversial Children’s Books: Sex, Racism And Obscene Rebellion

A History Of Controversial Children’s Books: Sex, Racism And Obscene Rebellion

Our history of controversial children's books: sex, drugs, sambo's gay lover and anti-authoritarianism in the classroom. ...
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Children Dressed As Flowers For The Wildflower Preservation Society’s Colorful Day Out (1920)

Children Dressed As Flowers For The Wildflower Preservation Society’s Colorful Day Out (1920)

  In 1920, the Wildflower Preservation Society, Illinois Chapter, (WPSIC) convened for a celebration of ...
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The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

At around eight o’clock on the Saturday evening of 14 April 1981, a Molotov cocktail ...
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Brian Eno, Polly Eltes and Judy Nylon In A Rare 1974 Promo

Brian Eno, Polly Eltes and Judy Nylon In A Rare 1974 Promo

  This is the little-seen promo video for Brian Eno’s song China, My China (from ...
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A Clockwork Carpet: When Floor Coverings Went Orange

A Clockwork Carpet: When Floor Coverings Went Orange

To say orange was a popular color in the late sixties to early seventies would ...
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When the Oscar Statue Snorted Cocaine On Hollywood Boulevard

When the Oscar Statue Snorted Cocaine On Hollywood Boulevard

Every so often we at Flashbak see something from the present and near-present we think ...
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Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

  In a box marked “private”, portrait photographers Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944) ...
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Marilyn Monroe In A Jackie Kennedy Wig (1962)

Marilyn Monroe In A Jackie Kennedy Wig (1962)

In June 1962, six weeks before she died, Marilyn Monroe pulled on a black wig and ...
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The Newlyweds and their Baby Were America’s First Comic Book Family (1907)

The Newlyweds and their Baby Were America’s First Comic Book Family (1907)

  In 1904 George McManus ( 1884-1954) scored a job at New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's ...
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Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

In the summer of 1928, Willy Michel (August 20, 1905 - March 1, 1976) began ...
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Frida Kahlo’s Touching Letter to A Troubled Georgia O’Keeffe (1933)

Frida Kahlo’s Touching Letter to A Troubled Georgia O’Keeffe (1933)

  On March 1st, 1933, 26-year-old Mexican painter Frida Kahlo wrote this letter to her ...
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Photos Of Brutal Paris, City of Concrete

Photos Of Brutal Paris, City of Concrete

Paris-born Damien Gosset photographs the architecture of his home city. Look at any American-made TV show ...
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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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