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Groovy Chicks Selling Motorbikes: 1960s Sexy Swingin’ Scooter & Motorcycle Adverts

Groovy Chicks Selling Motorbikes: 1960s Sexy Swingin’ Scooter & Motorcycle Adverts

"There's nothing square about the new world of fun and adventure you'll discover with your ...
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Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

In 1949, Dayalets created mascots to promote vitamins made by Abbott Laboratories, of Chicago, Illinois. ...
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Ramen-Scarfing ‘Straight Press’ Photographer Joe Stevens Fine Line Ad In Frendz, June 1971

Ramen-Scarfing ‘Straight Press’ Photographer Joe Stevens Fine Line Ad In Frendz, June 1971

  I’m a fiend for line ads in print media; all human life is contained ...
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Buy Prints Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Drawings ‘Representing The Most Interesting Celestial Objects and Phenomena’

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Drawings ‘Representing The Most Interesting Celestial Objects and Phenomena’

  Étienne Trouvelot’s pencil and pastel drawings of celestial objects and phenomena were good enough ...
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Win A Jethro Tull T-shirt That Will Drive The Girls Wild With Desire

Win A Jethro Tull T-shirt That Will Drive The Girls Wild With Desire

We love to write about vintage T-shirts, the 20th Century's cultural markers of what's hot. ...
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Drawing The Road: An Artist’s Moving Gallery Of Discovery

Drawing The Road: An Artist’s Moving Gallery Of Discovery

  "I travel a lot," says Chandler O'Leary. "I carry a sketchbook wherever I go. ...
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Retro Interiors: Dream Homes And Telltale Furniture

Retro Interiors: Dream Homes And Telltale Furniture

These photographs of interiors were acquired by vernacular collector Robert E. Jackson. Looking at them makes ...
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William Burroughs Terrorises Soho, Sex And Scientology On Dr. Dent’s Magic Formula

William Burroughs Terrorises Soho, Sex And Scientology On Dr. Dent’s Magic Formula

  Maggs has issued a scratch catalogue of William Burroughs’ photographs of London 1972 – ...
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‘TEEN Magazine – July 1970

‘TEEN Magazine – July 1970

Let's thumb through this July 1970 issue of 'TEEN magazine.  Herein, you'll find Bobby Sherman ...
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The Cubies’ ABC: A Biting Satire On Modern Art (1913)

The Cubies’ ABC: A Biting Satire On Modern Art (1913)

  The Cubies' ABC is a terrific collection of drawings by husband wife team Earl ...
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Found By The Trash: A Box of Extraterrestrial Drawings And Notes

Found By The Trash: A Box of Extraterrestrial Drawings And Notes

  When he found a locked wooden box "smelling of basements and dampness" by the trash, Reddit ...
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Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good and Bad Government: A Revolutionary Painting For Then And Now

Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good and Bad Government: A Revolutionary Painting For Then And Now

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government is a series of three fresco panels painted ...
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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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