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“I Was A Wild Hot Rod Girl!” And Other Torrid Tales from Confession Mags of the 1950s-1970s

“I Was A Wild Hot Rod Girl!” And Other Torrid Tales from Confession Mags of the 1950s-1970s

It started in 1919 with True Story and immediately spread to countless imitators. The confession magazine - ...
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Nicknames Of The States According To An Odd 1884 Map

Nicknames Of The States According To An Odd 1884 Map

Nicknames of the states according to a map produced in 1884 by livestock company H.W. ...
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Jim Jocoy’s West Coast Punk Rock Photography – SF/LA 1977-1980

Jim Jocoy’s West Coast Punk Rock Photography – SF/LA 1977-1980

Jim Jocoy's intimate polaroids and prints (1977 - 1980) take us back to the days ...
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Malcolm McLaren’s Reading list: From Nik Cohn and Tom Wolfe to Voodoo, a Frederick’s Of Hollywood Catalogue and Wilhelm Reich

Malcolm McLaren’s Reading list: From Nik Cohn and Tom Wolfe to Voodoo, a Frederick’s Of Hollywood Catalogue and Wilhelm Reich

A few years back I came across Malcolm McLaren’s annotated copy of Indian Rawhide, the ...
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Carried Away! 40 Examples of the Most Insanely Overused Image in Vintage Pop Art

Carried Away! 40 Examples of the Most Insanely Overused Image in Vintage Pop Art

A helpless lady is carried in the arms of a monster, robot, cowboy, etc.  The number of times this image has been repeated in pop art is simply beyond belief. ...
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Making Globes In 1955

Making Globes In 1955

British Pathé has published its vast collection of 85,000 historical films dating from 1896 to 1976 ...
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A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey

Ted Polhemus shares his personal photo archive. His life begins in the bosom of the ...
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Anna Pavlova And Her Pet Swan Jack (1927)

Anna Pavlova And Her Pet Swan Jack (1927)

Anna Pavlova ( February 12, 1881 – January 23, 1931) was a principal ballerina of the ...
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Cover Girls of Model Airplane Magazines of the 1960s-1990s

Cover Girls of Model Airplane Magazines of the 1960s-1990s

Not so long ago we took a look at Yugoslavian Computer Magazine Cover Girls, now let's ...
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The Universalis Cosmographia (1507): The First Time America Was Named On A Map

The Universalis Cosmographia (1507): The First Time America Was Named On A Map

In April 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (11 September 1470 – 16 March 1520) became ...
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Fake Beards And Sandstorms: A 1923 Road Trip Through Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma

Fake Beards And Sandstorms: A 1923 Road Trip Through Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma

In 1923, recreational automobile travel was still new enough to be considered special and exciting. ...
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Vintage Mystery Parties: Found Photos of Folks Having Fun

Vintage Mystery Parties: Found Photos of Folks Having Fun

I don't know the backstory to any of these found photograph celebrations... but I do know ...
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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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